Small Values of Cool: Firefooooooooox

September 24, 2004

Firefooooooooox

Firefox extensions. Geddit? (Whistling wind, tumbleweed.)

Suit yourselves.

Anyway, Gordon mentions some of his favourite extensions. The Web Developer extension in particular is a must-have. If, that is, you are a web developer. ;-)

There are a few extensions that I'd hate to be without that he doesn't mention:

Linky allows you to drag-select a bunch of links and open them all at once.
IE View allows you to open a page or link in IE - dead handy for testing. And like it or not, you have to test with IE.
Tabbrowser Extensions allows you to drag and drop tags, close loads of tags at once, and quite a few more things. Give it a try.
Google Bar - a clone of Google's IE toolbar.

That's what I use, but your needs are probably different, so check out all the Firefox Extensions and see what you fancy.

Posted to The Internet by Simon Brunning at September 24, 2004 12:02 PM

Comments

Not heard of Linky (the rest rule), sounds good though.

My first try of firefox, back when it was called firebollocks or something, had a cool extension that changed the cursor if the link you hovered over was a javascript link or was going to open in a new window - can't seem to find it now though, damn shame.

Posted by: Darren on September 24, 2004 12:22 PM

I still use IE for most normal browsing, but I've been using Firefox when it comes to blogging - the tabs come in handy; keeping MT open in one tab, bloglines in another, checking out links in another. I'm still not a huge fan, but it's a lot better than I remember it being.

Posted by: Lonita on September 24, 2004 02:08 PM

Cheers for the linkage - will add Linky methinks. And I DO mention Tabbrowser Extensions but it's a bit OTT for new users IMHO. Google Bar is covered in the comments as well.

Posted by: Gordon on September 24, 2004 03:20 PM

For me, the Google toolbar was the last good thing about IE. Now that it's on Firefox, I can think of no good reason for using IE, other than testing.

Posted by: Alan Green on September 24, 2004 11:00 PM

don't forget that the by clicking on a link with the mouse's wheel it will open the link in a tab! better than pressing ctrl!

Posted by: mark boyce on September 25, 2004 12:02 AM

I cannot imagine my Firefox without All-in-one Gestures, WatherFox and Download Statusbar.

Links: http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2004/09/16/493.aspx

Posted by: David Vidmar on September 27, 2004 05:26 PM

I would never get the hang of mouse gestures, I kept triggering them by accident. :-(

Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 27, 2004 05:30 PM

One for the hardcore, mozex lets you edit the contents of text areas in your editor of choice. Mine is set to call Vim, naturally ;-)

Posted by: Andy Todd on September 28, 2004 04:55 PM

Another one: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#delicious

Posted by: Simon Brunning on October 8, 2004 02:06 PM