how my fox is dressed for autumn

September 15, 2006 under Computers, Firefox, Internet, Software

How do you dress-up your Firefox? I don’t use any third-party themes, but here are extensions that I use on my computers:

Google Toolbar
Search term suggestions. Phishing detection. AutoFill for speedy completion of webforms. Spell check. This is a handy extension, but I’m not sure if I’ll have a need for this when Firefox 2.0 ships.

Adblock
Advertising pays the bills for a lot of sites, but there’s a 99.999% chance that I’ll never click on a banner ad. So my guilt is slightly alleived when this handy extension removes them from every site that I visit 😉

Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Filterset.G is a handy list of regular expressions that the aforementioned Adblock extension uses to determine ad content on a web page. This extension ensures that said list is automatically kept up-to-date.

IE Tab
This is one of those for-Windows-only extensions. This extension is extremely useful for web development testing, since it allows you to view any web page using Internet Explorer’s rendering engine right from within Firefox. It’s also perfect for viewing various web sites that only render correctly in IE (cough, MSDN, cough).

Web Developer
Another web development time-saver. It features a slew of tools to make development easier. The “convert POST to GET” feature alone is indespensible.

del.icio.us
This extension makes it easy to bookmark pages in my del.icio.us. Definitely a time saver when you use multiple computers.

Forecastfox
I’d rather not have to go to the Weather Network‘s website all of the time. This eliminates one step, since I already have a browser window open anyway.

I love Firefox’s customizability. The other browsers like IE, Opera and Safari don’t come close. Which Firefox extensions can you not live without?

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One Response to "how my fox is dressed for autumn"

  • Gil Cintron says:

    You touched on a few of my favorites (IE Tab, AdBlock, Filterset) but I also can’t live without:

    Context Search :: Allows you to highlight text and right click it to search using any of the search engines you have loaded in your upper right search box.

    Customize Google :: Ad removal from all google sites, optional auto-GoogleSuggest and a few other perks worth looking at.

    VideoDownloader :: What can I say?? I love YouTube.com

    Flat Bookmark Editing :: Allows you to not have to open each bookmark in order to edit it. Priceless if you have tons of bookmarks.

    GMail Notifier :: Free POP is the best. Not having to keep Thunderbird open or constantly check is priceless.

    Just a few to check out…

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