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FireFox Add-Ons
Submitted by jae on December 3, 2006 - 3:46pm.
I downloaded most of the Add-Ons and maybe I should have done them one at a time and played around with each one, because now my toolbars are covered with millions of little icons and I have no idea what anything does. lol. Anyways...I did notice there are a few different ones for organizing your 'favorites/bookmarks', I actually spent a LONG time doing this in my IE before I even knew Firefox existed, I only downloaded it to get on this site, but of course now I love it. So any suggestions on which one I should use? I like the idea of having them all in one place and being able to access them from any computer. Also suggestions about any of the other add-ons, likes, dislikes, things you found that they do that I ( a not so absurvant user ) would not notice? And ya, I know i spelled that wrong! Don't know how to use spell check either. lmao
A few more I'm finding useful
January 26, 2007 - 5:05am
The first one is called linkification- and it turns text links into clickable links that open in a new tab, so you don't have to copy and paste urls into a new tab.
Next is Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE). It backups all your extensions so if you ever have to reinstall your Firefox, you don't have to go searching for all the addons you use. You can set it to do regular backups in several ways.
I'm also liking Colorful Tabs, since I use a black theme it makes the tabs much easier to view.
View Source Chart-Makes it so much easier to go through source code cause it nests the code in different colored, layered boxes. For a newbie like me it is much more "viewable" and easier to find what I'm looking for.
Customize Google-which is nice cause it puts a little 1inX1in view of the page before the link. So you get a sample of the page to see if it's what you really want, without having to leave the search results or hover over the link with cooliris--just speeds things up a bit when you're in a hurry.
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Re: A few more I'm finding useful
January 26, 2007 - 5:20am
All of the Firefox extensions are great but I would remind everyone to try to limit how many you have active at one time. If you look at the amount of RAM Firefox uses you will notice that the longer you are online without closing your browser the more RAM it sucks up. If you add on more extensions that are active all the time it sucks up even more RAM. Its not a huge problem if you have 1GB of RAM or more but for people with less RAM you may want to keep this in mind. Oh and to restore the extensions with FEBE there is another extension you have to download but I couldn't get it to work.
Re: A few more I'm finding useful
January 26, 2007 - 5:38am
Thanks for that info Foam, that explains why after all day of leaving the computer on and Firefox open, my computer freezes. And I have 1GB. So, if I close Firefox a few times throughout the day, would that prevent the freezing and free the memory back up? I'd hate to loose all these handy little goodies! LOL
GuG-Points: 1266
Last Seen: 05/03/2008 - 1:10pm
Location: 7th Circle of the Inferno
I am: Not Telling
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Last Seen: 05/12/2008 - 3:55pm
Location: Construcion Capitol of the World
GuG-Points: 525
Last Seen: 05/17/2008 - 7:36am
Location: Horse Country, Kantuckee
I am: Master of my own domain
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Last Seen: 05/12/2008 - 3:55pm
Location: Construcion Capitol of the World
THANK YOU! Here are mine that I dont see
December 13, 2006 - 2:00pm
www.foxmarks.com - This is a bookmark sync'er, and is great if you forget the page you wanted to go to at night that you bookmarked at work.
www.imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net - Allows you to change the size of an image in a page, up or down. Yes, this could be a naughty tool, but I use it to scale down people who don't know how to shrink their pics!
That's all for now,
Orlando
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Last Seen: 04/23/2008 - 8:29pm
Location: Slightly left of center
I like it!
December 14, 2006 - 8:23pm
I am constantly emailing myself links to pages I want to remember so that when I go from my PC to my laptop I can see the page again. Foxmarks sounds like a really handy tool!
Thanks!
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GuG-Points: 891
Last Seen: 05/16/2008 - 5:52pm
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More
December 6, 2006 - 7:09am
MyspaceMozilla - Very useful for myspace users. Phishing protection, warnings for some viruses and trackers, viewing friends alphabetically, seeing who has you in their top 8, forum search and thread bookmark, alerts with new messages and comments, profile and friends list back up. And more functions on the way.
Web Developer - A sh*tload of functions on this. All to do with how a website is constructed. A lot of it goes over my head but i can use a bunch of them.
Unofficial Myspace Toolbar - Has an html text editor for messages and comments. All kinds of links to different sections on profiles which is convenient sometimes.
text/plain - For links that are in plain text. Select them, right click and you can open the link in several ways.
View Dependencies - Adds a dependencies tab to the page info window. See all the files a page used to load. Adblock also has this but here it's ordered by server and you see the file sizes.
CookieSwap - Lets you swap between tree different cookie profiles. So you can log into some websites under several accounts at the same time within the same browser. I use it for gmail, yahoo and myspace.
GuG-Points: 1226
Last Seen: 05/17/2008 - 3:30pm
Location: On my own planet... keep off... no visitors.
I am: a Ramen Noodle!
Re: More
January 26, 2007 - 1:27pm
Re: More
January 26, 2007 - 7:28pm
at 1st the myspacemozilla was working fine, but i tried to use the scan and its saying i need to load my friends list....which i did, but now im just not getting any response at all. I have zone alarm -would this be an issue? i skimmed thru zonealarm and i dont see it blocking it, but i dunno.
*Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.*
Re: More
January 26, 2007 - 10:14pm
I had a similiar issue the other night, when trying to do the same thing as you. It kept hanging at 125 friends and never would finish processing the friends list. I ended up restarting Firefox and it cleared the problem. Also, if you click the help link, it takes you to a myspace mozilla group on myspace, the creator of the program posts there, so it's good to join. He also takes requests on what features you think should be added to it.
Re: More(Jewels)
February 1, 2007 - 4:35am
i had a uestion about myspacemozilla so i went to the help link and its invalid....so i went to the myspace/myspacemozilla site and that too is invalid. Basically, my question was, when i scan a users profile, myspacemozilla says: "this persons profile contains a filtered URL -usually a worm." do you know what that means? or where i could find the info from?
thanks;)
*Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.*
Re: More(Jewels)
February 1, 2007 - 5:22am
Yep-the group was deleted. I read somewhere else on here that myspace keeps deleting the creators page, so they likely deleted the group as well. Here's the new one:
http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=105124202
Basically I think that means that the page has one of the old worms still on it. Though it's probably not active anymore. Did you see one of those blue link bars like about 1/3 of the way down the profile?
Re: More(Jewels)
February 1, 2007 - 5:43am
hmmmm -nothing is useful pertaining to my question...& some people are getting yelled at for questions, so im just going to research some things on my own. i just want to know what the warning alerts mean when myspacemozilla scans a profile for me & all this stuff pops up in red. oh well=) thanks jewels!
*Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.*
Re: More(Jewels)
February 1, 2007 - 5:36am
Yes, I finally was able to. Just sent you a reply about adblock on another thread. I ended up making my own too, just to be safe.
ps: be sure to read the instructions on how to apply to the group. They want your url and friend id now. Guess they're trying to increase security or something.
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Last Seen: 05/17/2008 - 7:36am
Location: Horse Country, Kantuckee
I am: Master of my own domain
More good ones
December 6, 2006 - 4:55am
Here are some from my list that haven't been mentioned yet:
deskCut
Lets you right-click and put a link to the current page on your desktop. Great when you don't want to add the link to your favorites but will need to go back to that page in the near future.
Ook? Video Ook!
Lets you download videos from sites such as YouTube. The downloaded file will have a .html extension; you need to change the extension to .flv and use a flv capable player like FLVPlayer or Windows Media Player with flv plugin.
VideoDownloader
Same as Ook? Video Ook! (I use both)
IE View
Allows you to quickly open the current page in Internet Explorer. It's hard to believe but some web sites are not compatable with Firefox.
Dictionary ToolTip
Highlight a word on a web page, double-click it and a small window appears with that word's dictionary information.
GuG-Points: 267
Last Seen: 05/12/2008 - 3:55pm
Location: Construcion Capitol of the World
Little Blue Block
December 3, 2006 - 4:19pm
I don't know what they name of this add on is, but the only one I've figured out so far is very helpful, it puts a little blue and green square at the end of any link, and I can see what's on the next page without actually going to it. Might not be too big of a deal for DSL or higher, but I am on dial-up and it is VERY helpful!
Oh well.GuG-Points: 1266
Last Seen: 05/03/2008 - 1:10pm
Location: 7th Circle of the Inferno
I am: Not Telling
GuG-Points: 267
Last Seen: 05/12/2008 - 3:55pm
Location: Construcion Capitol of the World
GuG-Points: 1266
Last Seen: 05/03/2008 - 1:10pm
Location: 7th Circle of the Inferno
I am: Not Telling
Yes
December 3, 2006 - 3:58pm
I like them all and have them installed right now, they all have a good use
Adblock kills ads and as we have learned kills trackers
NoScript kills scripts from automatically running on a web page
Forecast fox has weather outlook and has a pop up box for severe weather alerts
Grease monkey has user scripts to block out ads on alot of sites like myspace, google, msn,yahoo, even those sneaky ads they put in your mail
IE tab lets you switch to IE in a Firefox tab to view pages that won't load right in Firefox
And there are alot more just surf thru you may find some that are even more useful to a specific need you have
GuG-Points: 267
Last Seen: 05/12/2008 - 3:55pm
Location: Construcion Capitol of the World
GuG-Points: 1266
Last Seen: 05/03/2008 - 1:10pm
Location: 7th Circle of the Inferno
I am: Not Telling
Scripts
December 3, 2006 - 4:11pm
They are like little bundles of rules, you add the script in it tells the browser that it shouldn't do something like show ads, or it may say hide the ads and reclaim the space like with some of the myspace scripts, and no it doesn't sound dumb you should always ask before you jump into anything new and make sure its something you need or want
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