September 4th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

It’s time for another of my semi-​quinquennial posts where I list every Fire­fox add-​on I use, not so much to enlighten you, but so that I have a link to them for the next time I need to install them on another com­puter. Your indul­gence is appre­ci­ated:

• Adblock Plus - Ad block­ing with auto­matic filter updates through RSS.
• Adsense Noti­fier - For keep­ing up with your Google Money.
• AutoAuth - Auto­mat­i­cally sub­mits HTTP authen­ti­ca­tion dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login infor­ma­tion.
• Aut­oFill Forms - Fill out web forms auto­mat­i­cally.
• Better Gmail - A com­pre­hen­sive suite of Gmail enhance­ments.
• Bug­MeNot - A mech­a­nism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require com­pul­sory reg­is­tra­tion.
• CSSViewer - A simple CSS prop­erty viewer.
• Cus­tomize­Google - Enhances Google search results by adding extra infor­ma­tion and remov­ing unwanted infor­ma­tion.
• Down­The­mAll! - Lets you down­load all the links or images con­tained in a web­page.
• EditCSS - An easy way for web devel­op­ers to edit and modify cur­rently loaded stylesheets.
• Faster­Fox - Per­for­mance and net­work tweaks for Fire­fox.
• Fire­fox Uni­ver­sal Uploader - Allows you to upload/download files from any web­site using a friendly inter­face.
• Fis­sion - Com­bines the address bar and progress bar (Safari style).
• Fox­Tor­rent - Lets you stream tor­rents as they down­load, from your web browser.
• Fuller­screen - Enhances the Full Screen mode into a really full screen mode, hiding the remain­ing tool­bars and sta­tus­bar and making them vis­i­ble again when the mouse pointer hits an edge of the screen.
• Gmail Noti­fier - Allows you to mon­i­tor mul­ti­ple Gmail accounts.
• Google Browser Sync - Con­tin­u­ously syn­chro­nizes your browser set­tings – includ­ing book­marks, his­tory, per­sis­tent cook­ies, and saved pass­words – across your com­put­ers.
• Google Cal­en­dar Noti­fier - Pro­vides robust noti­fi­ca­tions and dis­play of your Google Cal­en­dars for today, as well as show­ing any upcom­ing all day events for tomorrow.
• Google Reader Noti­fier - Shows you how many unread items you have in your Google Reader account.
• Google Web Com­ments - Makes it easy to see what blog­gers are saying about a page you’re viewing
• Grease­mon­key - Allows you to cus­tomize the way web­pages look and func­tion with a series of scripts. I use the fol­low­ing:
  • Google Reader Pre­view Enhanced - Adds a “Preview button” to Google Reader that allows you to view actual arti­cle in a frame.
  • Hide Gmail clippy Ads - Self explanatory.
  • Secure Gmail - Force GMail to use secure connection.
  • Ajax Photo Blog­ging in Flickr - Post a story about the photo to your blog and add a descrip­tion or com­ment on it automatically.
  • Gmail - For­ward Thread - For­ward an entire thread.
  • Flickr Photo Com­pass - Dis­plays the 8 clos­est photos to the actual one in 8 directions.
  • Flickr Snap - Dis­plays a thumb­nail next to each link to a flickr photo page.
  • Flickr Camera Images - Adds camera images from Amazon to Flickr “More properties” Exif pages.
  • Youtube Embed Video Down­loader - Dis­plays a link to down­load an flv ver­sion of each movie.
  • GoogleAu­toPager - Adds autoload­ing of the next page to Google search results.
  • Uncen­sor the Inter­net - Turns self-​sensored words like “bulls**t” back into their pro­fane orig­i­nal words.
  • google extra - Dis­plays results for google image search, video search, wikipedia search, dic​tio​nary.com search and Dict.CN search along­side normal google searches.
• IE Tab - See how your web page is dis­played in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• Image Zoom - Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on indi­vid­ual images within a web page.
• PDF Down­load - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it out­side Fire­fox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to down­load it.
• Styl­ish - Cus­tomize the look of the appli­ca­tion and of web­sites with a user styles manager.
• Tab Mix Plus - Includes such fea­tures as dupli­cat­ing tabs, con­trol­ling tab focus, tab click­ing options and undo closed tabs and windows.
• Tab­bable Tool­bars - Makes all tool­bar but­tons tabbable.
• Tamper Data - View and modify HTTP/HTTPS head­ers and post parameters.
• Web Devel­oper - Adds a menu and a tool­bar with var­i­ous web devel­oper tools.

That’s just about every­thing I use, though some of these prob­a­bly need to be culled from the list soon. Some are only there for test­ing, like Tab­bable Tool­bars, and others are only used occa­sion­ally like Tamper Data. One I left off the list is my own Auto Zoom Grease­mon­key script which I put together for low vision users and isn’t much use to me yet.

So what am I missing?

7 Responses to “All My Add-ons”

1. You’ve got sev­eral that I’ll be check­ing out. Here are a few that I use that you don’t:

   Linki­fi­ca­tion–Turns any­thing that looks like a link into a click­able link.

   Super Dra­gAndGo–Click and drag any link and it opens in a new tab. Works well with the above exten­sion.

   Fore­cast Fox–Weather, cur­rent and two day fpre­cast, radar map.

   Text size tool­bar–Slightly easier than Con­trol + or - because you don’t have to set the mouse down. Good for my eyes.

   Trans­late–When you want to read what’s on those German, Russ­ian, Por­tuguese, Chi­nese etc. web­sites.

   Quic­knote–High­light, right click, choose send to Quic­knote. Other tools do this as well or better but I’m used to this one.

   Paste and Go 2–Saves one mouse click.

   Allow Right Click–Some web­sites don’t, this makes them.

   All-​in-​One Search Button
   All-​in-​One Side­bar–Very nice

   Copy Plain Text–When you want to copy and paste some­thing from a web­site into Word this is often the best way to go. Less clean up in Word.

   Search­bar Auto­sizer–Nice.

   Sorry, no links. I’m on my way out the door.

   — skank September 5th, 2007 at 7:47 am #

2. Hmmm - some good stuff, includ­ing things I used to use but lost along the way.

   To change sizes even easier, for me, you can hold the con­trol key and scroll up or down with your mouse wheel. Since I always browse with my left pinky on the con­trol key and my right hand on the mouse, this is the most nat­ural way. Oh, and Control-0 (zero) returns to the orig­i­nal text size.

   — Jemaleddin September 5th, 2007 at 9:18 am #

3. Nice list. I use a few of these, but there are some that really made me go “ooooh!”. Def­i­nitely going to check them out.

   And if you’re a Flickr basket case like me, check out Flick­r­Fox as well.

   — jerry September 7th, 2007 at 9:14 am #

4. Nice find - will do!

   — Jemaleddin September 7th, 2007 at 1:23 pm #

5. SmartLinks: http://​adap​tive​blue.com/

   — C.S. September 13th, 2007 at 12:44 pm #

6. I could see Blue Orga­nizer being useful - but I don’t know why I’d want to put SmartLinks into my blog. More help­ful would be a plugin to auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ate Amazon refer­ral links. :-)

   — Jemaleddin September 13th, 2007 at 12:59 pm #

7. Their fire­fox plug is pretty nifty too.

   — C.S. September 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm #