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lateo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 07:49 AM
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What are your favorite Firefox extensions?
The ones I can't live with out are...

Scrapbook
Copy URL + (this one is the freaking cat's meow)

and
Spellbound (spellchecker)
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 08:15 AM
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1. explain
how do you copy url+ ?
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lateo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 08:26 AM
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2. Check this page out...
http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/

It allows you to select some text on a page, right-click, choose CopyURL +, and then you get selections to...





This saves me lots of cutting and pasteing.
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:22 PM
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3. thanks...cool.
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:52 PM
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4. My list:
Mouse Gestures (can't live without them now).

Gmail notifier.

Tabbrowser preferences, just for the fact that I hated new windows being opened for some external links. I'd much rather have a new tab, thank you ver much!

Forcastfox: I always know the weather!
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Chicken Girl Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:57 PM
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5. I don't even know where to begin listing all my favorites...
Firesomething - randomly changes the name of the browser in the titlebar

Statusbar Clock - puts the time and date in the statusbar

Adblock Plus + Filterset.G updater - filters out banner ads

NoScript - enforces a whitelist policy for javascript and plugins

ForecastFox - puts a weather report in your statusbar (or somewhere else, I have it in the bookmarks toolbar)

Nuke Anything -
- 'Nuff said.

User Agent Switcher - change your user agent string to fool websites into thinking you are using Internet Exploder (or another browser)

Resize Search Box - makes the search box resizable

Plain Text to Link - lets you highlight unlinkified URLs and treat them as links
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 04:26 PM
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6. Yes. SB rocks. I have discovered many ways to use it.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 04:29 PM
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7. Flashgot
couldn't download without it! It made my switchover to Firefox complete.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 05:30 PM
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8. Adblock, NoScript and Bug Me Not
I love Firefox and extentions make it even better. :)
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:19 PM
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9. Farkit, BugMeNot, Adblock, TinyURL Creator
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:24 PM
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10. Is there a website where I can find all these extensions?
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:52 PM
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11. Mozilla.org is one
also you can just do a quick Google search with the extention name followed by "mozilla extention"
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:54 PM
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12. I love ReloadEvery
I can keep DU updated every 5 seconds if I want to (but it's frustrating when you're trying to post because it wipes out what you've typed).
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:55 PM
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13. Adblock and DownloadThemAll
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 06:58 PM
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14. BugMeNot and Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey lets you grab any script just by clicking on it
Also unembed, which lets you save embedded QT files
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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 08:08 PM
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15. The Best Firefox Extension
The Best Firefox Extension

:evilgrin:
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lateo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 09:17 AM
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21. pfffffft...
Opera...blah.

:)
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Dr. Death Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 08:13 PM
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16. The best Firefox extension
was when the dogs were chasing that Russian guy who owned the van and drove like 600 miles the day before to get Clint Eastwood to the airbase to steal the plane, and right before they catch him he puts a gun to his head so that he won't be taken alive, and just as he pulls the trigger they transition to Clint kicking the Firefox into afterburner...that rocks! Talk about an extension...oh wait, wrong Firefox.

Um, sorry.


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Clintmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:15 PM
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17. Here's MY favorites...
RoboForm - Can't live without it! (although I don't think it is a Firefox exclusive extension)
ForecastFox
FoxyTunes - Let's you control your music software without having to switch TO that software's user interface!
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:17 PM
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18. Image Zoom, Adblock, Foxy Tunes

nt.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:36 PM
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19. I like ViewIE
It lets you open your current page or any link in (ugh) Internet Explorer. Very convenient when you bump into a dipshit page that will only work properly in IE.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:41 PM
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20. My favorites
TinyURL creator

US Department of Homeland Security Idiocy Level - this extension puts a bar at the bottom of the window with the color coded Homeland Security level. Currently it is yellow and says "scared"

BugMeNot

Ad Block

Spoof Stick - this displays the actual site you are at in the toolbar...helpful!
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lateo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 09:38 AM
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22. Not an extension but still invaluable.
Backupfox.

http://digg.com/software/Preserve_Your_Firefox_Settings_With_BackupFox

Back up your Firefox settings with this.

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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 10:01 AM
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23. Session Saver (version 0.2d)
It's nice to close and re-open Firefox with multiple tabs.









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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 10:08 AM
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24. Moran, freeper and troll blocker
Man, I don't know how I would live without it!
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 10:10 AM
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25. The dictionary one
where you right click anything to look it up in the dictionary. I'm spelling-impaired sometimes.
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