Firefox Extensions
 

I'm gonna do it ... I've downloaded the AthlonXP version from moox, and am about to install it .... Now ...

What extensions are people using ... and why, please give links if you can.

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There has been plenty of discussions on extensions in the "Firefox 1.0 - released 9th Nov 04" thread. Try a search in there. ;)

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I know ... but noone has listed the extension and why, hence this thread dedicated to the extensions only.

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ok, the basics you'll need are: Java, Macromedia flash and Shockwave. other extensions and themes can be downloaded from http://update.mozilla.org

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You'll need the sun java, but flash & shockwave comes with the installer.

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none of those are "extensions" as such, nem is asking for reccomendations.. anyone that has installed FF will know where the default site is

nem. I've listed my current extensions here: http://s1lv3r.com/ext/index.php
You can install them directly from the page... much better than trawling through page after page of extensions. I'm making the assumption that you'll have similar tastes to me ;)
Once you've installed any, do a "check now" from the advanced section in the options which will update them if they're not current.

Top picks are: Adblock, BBCode, Tab Preferences, Bookmark Sync and GMail notify. The others are more or less cosmetic rather than adding functionality.

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl is much more descriptive than the mozilla site and is generally more up to date.

<--- *edit, nem has the dubious honour of being responsible for my first golden ball thanks nem :D :tu:

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Firefox Basics

Basic Firefox 1 installed
Moox Version overlayed
Flash Player Installed
Java Installed
Adobe Acrobat reinstalled
Windows Media Player Installed
Quicktime installed

Extensions

Tabbrowser Preferences 1.0 Installed
BBCode 0.37 Installed

Any others folks ??

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Adblock
Download Tweak Manager
Tweak Network

Edit:
fireftp
firefoxview

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Sorry to kinda hijack thread, but just wondered if anyone is having probs with WeatherFox (v 0.5.1) ??

It works at work on my Dell Win 2000 lappy, and used to work on my old Dell XP desktop, but won't on my new Evesham XP desktop.

I've downloaded it, installed it, set it up, but in my taskbar at the bottom, all I have is foxytunes ext, GMail ext and the resize thing in the corner.

Again, apologies for hijacking..... :p:

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Adblock - Don't need it
Download Tweak Manager -Installed
Tweak Network - Installed

Ta :D

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WeatherFox 0.5.1 Installed ..... no problems sky ?

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Where did you tell it to place the weather information or is it not showing in your extension list at all? I have 0.5.1 running ok here with Noia2. Are you running a theme on FF?

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I found the FireFtp extension worked well for uploading stuff to my website, simple '2 pane' jobby, but does the trick :)

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extensions I have:

Foxytunes: to play music through my browser, you need to have some kind of player though
Weatherfox: to display my local weather in the browser and get updates hourly
Gmail Notifier: to log into gmail autonatically without going to gmail, it will tell you if you have any new mail
bbcode: to add bb code to forums if you don't know bb code, but cable forum does not support it
tweak network: to make firefox browsing faster
adblock: to block ads, you can choose what to block.....this is one to have
html validator: in the view page source this goes through all html and validates it from w3c, helpful for your own webpages
colourzilla: a colour picker, helpful for web pages, goes throug rgb, hex


thats all i got

ik

p.s. I used to have fireFTP, but it was ok, not as good as Filezilla though, but filezilla is not an extension it is a stand alone prog from the people at mozila

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DOM inspector
Download statusbar
ieview
Popup Count
Chatzilla
FireFTP
Tweak Network
FoxyTunes
Athens Toolbar
Disable targets for downloads
Tabbrowser preferences

they are the ones i am using, all available from Mozilla update site but i'm too tired to expalin them now!

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Firefox 1.0

and........ hmm....thats it... think i need to check out some plug in's ;)

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I'm using Noia2.0 Ext. Its supposed to show in Status Bar.

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Greetings Gentlefolk.
Firefox Extensions - I canââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t download any of them.
I have tried the extensions page, a mirror site, and s1lv3rââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s site. I can
access all the sites Home page etc, but as soon as I hit the download button - nothing, zilch, zero, the hamster dies and the wheel stops turning.
I have tried with Firefox and IE6 with the same results.
I canââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t see that it is my settings because I have happily downloaded and installed a load of updates to other applications over the last couple of days, but I have done the usual cache purge, proxy dance etc., with no result. I have previously downloaded ( but later removed) a couple of extensions so it has worked!
In IE6 I get error on page in the status bar, and in Firefox (void)Javescript installer
Any and all suggestions gratefully received, because I am completely comfumbulated.
I have XP Pro firewall, AVG7, ADAware Spybot, spyware blaster and all permissions set (as far as I know ) to allow the download.

Bookmarks and Favourites.
Slightly different question. One of the things I miss with FF is a shortcut on the desktop to Bookmarks. Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve got one for favourites for IE and use it all the time.
I was looking at Favourites convertor export which would seem to do what I want (if I erver get to dowload) but the reviews range from abysmal to terrible with only a few votes for. Has anybody tried it, or any similar extension?

Thank you for your attention, and if anyone can sort it for me I promise to think of you at Christmas. (wonâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t do anything, just think of you)

TIA Joe.

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so you have tried:

clicking tools then click themes/extensions whichever it is you want.
in this box at the very bottom right you will have a link Get more extension/themes (depending on which you clicked).
This should take you to a page for downloads. click whichever ext/themes you wish. then click the inistall button.

Now if you have FF1.0 there may be a sort of tab like thing that appears on the website, (at the top) which may say you cannot download/it is not trusted, just allow to download from the site.

if this does not work, the best thing to do would be to delete the firefox program, and its folder, (after you have downloaded a new copy) and then re-install it, you may have picked up a bug with a certain extension/theme.
you don't/wont get rid of themes or extensions, but I would write down what I had and get all of them fresh.

I have had lots of probs with Adblock, so I no longer have that extension and now my FF works like a dream.

EDIT: go to tools - options - Web Features and click on Allow web sites to install software make sure it is ticked.

I hope this helps.

ik
p.s. to thank people you should just rep them, not think about them, it will make their christmas even more merrier.

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[QUOTE=ikthius]so you have tried:

clicking tools then click themes/extensions whichever it is you want.
in this box at the very bottom right you will have a link Get more extension/themes (depending on which you clicked).
This should take you to a page for downloads. click whichever ext/themes you wish. then click the inistall button.



EDIT: go to tools - options - Web Features and click on Allow web sites to install software make sure it is ticked.[unquote}

Thanks. I did all that - themes work OK, but extensions do nothing at all
Looks like reinstall will be the only option.
Joe

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if you uninstall firefox and its folder your extensions and themes are not affected, because these are found in you documents and settings folder (if you have windows xp that is), and the fresh copy will find these ok, you may have to import though.

if this does nothing to your problem, try uninstalling and re-installing your themse and extensions, one at a time to find out which one may be affecting your firefox.

ik

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Found this on MozillaZine. (The link for it is there)

Not really an extension, it lets you create a backup of all your profiles for Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird.

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The help that you always wanted to boil the perfect egg ;) :D

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This isn't an extension but a good tip I found. If there's a single url in the address bar drop down menu that u want to get rid of without clearing the history or looking for the entry, just highlight it and press shift-del.

Handy for getting rid of misspelled entries

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And ones you don't want your good lady surfing too ;)

*shuffles off furtively*

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Following on from what Opera did a few years ago to MSN, Firefox and Thunderbird gets it's own bork bork bork!

In Thunderbird, it turns all the junk mail into bork and in firefox, in View on the toolbar, you can change the text to bork :)

I don't know if the extension from Mozilla Update can work in FF, but you can get it via the author's homepage.

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Im surprised nobody is using Flashblock, its a great little addon to your browser that prevents Flash applications from starting or loading until you let them

So all those frikkin annoying Flash adverts don't even get a chance to start.

Instead of the flash starting you just get a play button centered where the flash app should be - if you then click on it the flash will start - otherwise it wont.

I use it a lot and its great.

You can get it here - http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

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I do.

slightly OT: I'm having intermittent problems with Adblock ie it's not working sometimes but it is others. I've D/Led the latest build and uninstall/reinstall but it's not helped. any ideas?

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I've been using Flashblock for a year or so.

Just make sure you are blocking the right content.
e.g. http://*.ads.adserver.com/* and not just http://img654.ads.adserver.com/banners/someimage.jpg

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You can dowload my adblock filter list from here (right click -> save as), it will block pretty much all the ads you will come accross and save you a lot of hassle. Just goto Tools -> adblock -> preferences then click on Adblock options and select import filters - then load my file.

That should do it. ;)

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I had that flashblock well over a year ago and I found it more annoying than all the adverts.

It may block the adverts, but it takes the point of view that all flash is evil, so it blocks sites made with flash as well, which can be annoying clicking on all the links, just to see one page.

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AdBlock doesn't always seem to want to work with FF1.0.4 (some people have problems, some don't).

Some info here: http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic....3a7af47881cd9b


And a fix for if it doesn't install at all (I had the problem & this cured it for me):

http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?p=10665#10665

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it only blocks what you tell it to...great if you know what you want, a bit of a pain if you don't! and downloading someone else's list probably won't be exactly what you want...

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Yeah I know that.

It's showing up in the extensions screen, the options work, but the Adblock thing doesn't always show in the bottom right of the window, and likewise, the context menu options don't appear. grr :mad:

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Well it must have changed then, because it worked the other way, it blocked everything then you had to say unblock and then only for that session.

This is quoted:
from here

If you can allow sites you know, that may be good, but if you're surf a lot, to a lot of unknown sites, it's really annoying. So much that I'd rather put up with the adverts.

It's an extension to think about* before you install it.

*Not saying that it's something deep and meaningful ;)
__________________

Have you tried what Matt said here?

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Silly me, must have missed that. (I blame supporting a **** team and exam stress).

it didn't work pre-1.0.4 though.

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oop, me stoopid, i was talking about adblock! revision is doing crazy things to my brain :dunce: :zzz:

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I've tried that. Now I can't get in the extensions thing grr.

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that was painful.

I've fixed it, but in the mean time, I'd ****ed the extensions, themes and the browsing on 4 browsers. Don't ask me how.

Wiped all the extensions, and themes, reinstalled the ones I could find, and it's working.

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Does anyone know of an extension which will allow me to open more than one homepage when I open FF or is there already an option for this?

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Yeah... it's built in but I can't remember how it's done :(

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other than a tab for each one, no, sorry ;)

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All you do is open the tabs you want, go to Tools>Options then click the "Use Current Pages" button.
Or you can type them in yourself and use the | pipe character to separate them.

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Thanks for that. The help mentioned that you could do it, not how. :)

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Yeah, I use the pipe option... works a treat. The only annoyance is that if you press Alt + Enter to go to homepage, it opens the homepage on your current tab, but also opens new tabs. I keep on doing it by mistake and end up with loads of tabs open by accident.

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Surely you mean Alt+Home? ;)

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Just a quick note...

If you use the Tabbrowser Preferences extension you might want to update it from the author's site, as the automatic update for it, gives a strange, large message at the bottom of screen.

Gone back to using FF, as opera was annoying me :)

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You don't need it in the beta, I don't think, most of the features have been included in the main build.

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I went back to using 1.06 and it did it with me, that's how I found out about. It just as a warning ;)

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I've got no reason to go back to 1.06 except i can't get flash to work (sound but no pictures) but then I just open IE for those.

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Well, I didn't like 1.5beta, so I went back and not everyone would have tried the 1.5beta yet anyway. Not everyone likes trying beta versions. Plus my first post was aimed at everyone, not just you :)

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I was merely mentioning it!

(What didn't you like about the beta?)