I've been hearing for ages about Firefox and how much better it is than IE and all these extensions that you can get for it.
Well, I finally got Firefox about 15 minutes ago and I was wondering what these extensions were all about and were to get them and stuff.

 

You can get them at http://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox

 

it is fifty times better!

 

Bugmenot

adblock

adblock plus
Some people prefer this version of adblock over the older builds

fasterfox

flashblock

tabmix
They seem to be having some problems but there it is..

spellbound
Can be a pain in the ass to get installed sometimes, read the directions! Only for FF1.07 IIRC

Those are the ones I almost always surf with... I'm sure more will be added here by others who use Firefox...

--bornagainpenguin

PS: For adblock, be sure to get the latests filterset from here!

PPS: I always ride with FF1.07 because IMHO it seems to work better for me..YMMV so if you use FF1.51 and find it timing out constantly on you give an earlier version a try!

EDIT - added Fasterfox and Tabmix links

EDIT - added Spellbound extension, fixed link to bugmenot, added adblockplus link

 

Sessionsaver I got fed up with. Tab Mix works far better, and it doubles as Extended tabbrowser as well, so that's 2 in 1 for me, with less memory issues. Fasterfox is one one I love. Loads pages quicker.

Speed tweak:
http://darklordpotter.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=649

we had a thread for this or discussing extensions, dunno where it went to

 

Looks like the thread got taken over by bittorrent... IMHO we should have a recommended software sticky somewhere on the site...

 

born the bugmenot link is broken

 

Fixed!

Sorry, that's what I get for being lazy and stealing links from a news article...

--bornagainpenguin

 

Thanks guys, I don't know what half the things do but I got a few things, thanks

 

Did you remember to restart the browser?

--bornagainpenguin (who suggests that the help section of the extension's webpages might clear up some confusion...)

 

Yeah, it's all good. Just exploring now thanks

(You guys really like your firefox don't you)

 

We love it.

 

You can get spellbound to work with version 1.5 if you download it from http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130&start=0 .

 

What is spellbound?

 

It's a spell checker.

 

this is what I have installed:

ad block
ad block.filtersetg updater - automatically updates the filter list for adblock
disable targets for downloads - stops new tabs from popping up when clicking zip, exe, etc files
faster fox - speeds up website loading
flashgot - download multiple files, i use it to create galleries out of sequential images (image01.jpg, image02.jpg, etc). good for comics and the like
forecast fox - shows current weather and a forecast in the status bar, also shows weather alerts
gmail manager - shows when i have new gmail
greasemonkey - lets me run scripts on websites (ie a script that shows how many days ago a fic was updated on ffn, instead of a date)
ietab - opens tab in firefox with ie engine, for those stupid websites that dont work with firefox
imagezoom
image shack right click
noscript - youd be surprised how few sites actually need javascript running to work, usually its for ads
search plugin hacks - uninstall search engines
sort extensions and themes
spiderzilla - mass downloads of websites
story monitor - favorites list for fics, works on ffn and a bunch of others, shows when they're updated and how many new chapters there are
tab mix plus - some cool options for tabs

 

for firefox I have :

foxytunes
View in IE
download tweak


very few I know but i couldnt be half arssed in getting other, this extension of fasterfox looks good so i'll get that now.
Firefox is like ten times faster then IE as it is, that extension looks promising.
Foxytunes is a great extension which lets you control basically any media player from within firefox and see what they are playing aswell. Tos very nifty.

 

For firefox I have the following:

fasterfox
tabmix
adblock
imagezoom
smiley xtra
chatzilla
bumble search
backgroundimage saver
google toolbar

Smiley Xtra allows me to add cool smilies to the forum, like the following:

 

Adblock
Fasterfox
Chatzilla
GoogleToolbar
ImageZoom

By the way, Fasterfox users, go on options and turn it down from Turbocharged. Turbocharged Fasterfox users increase load to webservers, so its kind of rude to do that, especially if you visit DLP alot.

 

isn't there any good popup blockers for firefox. there damn annoying.