Firefox Extensions

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There are the FireFox Extensions that I have loaded at all times because they rock and everybody should have them. They are in no particular order.

I started this page before I was aware of Wikipedia:List of Firefox extensions.

Contents 1 THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ONE 2 The "Must Have" List 3 Compatibility Problems 3.1 Tab managing extensions 4 The "Sometimes Helpful" List 5 Ones I am investigating 6 Features I would like to see become Firefox extensions 7 See Also

[edit] THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ONE

• Flash

[edit] The "Must Have" List

• ChatZilla
• DownThemAll
• FireFTP
• leetkey
• IE Tab
• PDF Download
• Adblock Plus
• VideoDownloadHelper (Go here to learn how to convert from .flv)
• FlashGot will allow you to download RealPlayer files. See this guide on how to convert from there. I, personally, use dbPowerAMP music converter after FlashGot.
• Open In Broswer - let you open any type of file as a text file in FireFox
• Toggle Word Wrap - excellent for viewing plain text files that don't have line breaks in FireFox - it puts you in control of word wrap like in text editors.
• Web Developer - does alot of web developer stuff including, for those of us with the newfangled wide flatscreen monitors, resizing windows to show what pages would look like on 800x600 screens.

There are probably others that are worth getting too and if you know of any good ones (not crappy ones - good ones) then post on the Talk:Firefox Extensions page.

People can also help by adding links and/or descriptions to the ones I've listed here.

[edit] Compatibility Problems

• SpiderZilla used to be on this list because it is a totally awesome tool but it needs to be fixed for compatibility with FireFox 3.

[edit] Tab managing extensions

You can use one of these but not both.

• Tab Mix Plus - gives you status bars on your tabs for how far your pages have loaded.
• Tab To Window - gives you the option to reload tabs in new windows from the right-click menu.

I'd like to see someone combine the two and modify the Tab To Window function so that it can pop out a tab into a new window without reloading the page.

[edit] The "Sometimes Helpful" List

• ColorZilla
• GSpace
• FoxyTunes
• ForcastFox
• Googlepedia
• Advanced Dork
• CaptureFox
• 404 : Page is Not Found ? Now it will be! - This one can be rather annoying when you don't care enough to check the wayback machine but it can make checking the wayback machine much quicker when you do care.
• Flash Switcher

[edit] Ones I am investigating

Dunno if these are good or not yet.

• Split Browser
• SpoofStick
• IEView
• MeasureIt
• GreaseMonkey
• BetterSearch
• Malte's Search Tools for FireFox
• OpenSearchFox
• SamePlace - instant messenger.

[edit] Features I would like to see become Firefox extensions

• A telnet client

[edit] See Also

• Wikipedia:List of Firefox extensions