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Best Firefox Extensions volume 1-3 by c-net

download.com — Three volumes of best firefox extensions by cnet

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  • RckmRobot, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47Interestingly enough, the page doesn't look correct in Firefox. The tabs for switching between the volumes shows up in the wrong spot (it shows up correctly in IE).

    Irony anyone?
  • radda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I've seen plenty of lists for FF extensions, but that's the first that I can officially say is damn good. Also, you Opera elitists can STFU. We don't want to listen to your crap anymore.
  • bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It looks like they're in the exact same coordinates, so I'm going to have to say that its adblock blocking the ad, and them designing it poorly.

    Edit: Disabled adblock, it looked perfect. Re-enabled it, the tabs were in the same place. Its the designers fault. The site looks fine for so many others because they see the ads.
  • Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Nope, it's the ads.
  • bentrop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Not much irony. You're all just using adblock (or even better for you: adblock plus) and your Firefox blocks a banner ad on top of the article. That cases the whole article to move up a little, except the navigation Tabs. Without filtering the website displays perfectly fine.
  • JerMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I thought it was because of NoScript... but yes, ironic. :)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm with you on AdBlock. I forgot how great it is until I used a PC at a new job last week. There is so much advertising on some sites it's hard to find the content. Some flashing ads are so bad it's hard to read the text near them. I ended up covering one ad with my hand so I could read.
  • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Not much irony. You're all just using adblock (or even better for you: adblock plus) and your Firefox blocks a banner ad on top of the article. That cases the whole article to move up a little, except the navigation Tabs. Without filtering the website displays perfectly fine."
    But that is one of the extensions on the page (adblock), so their promoting an extension that screws up browsing their site, which adds a little irony
    - Ben
  • Corgana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5lol yeah, same here... and I don't have noscript..
  • okdewit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nothing wrong with opera, it has its uses, but I prefer FF.
    Opera is still nice for pc's with low memory, although I would advise them to use Lynx.
  • MihaiM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can find here the same list:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox&appfilter=firefox&type=E&sort=downloads
  • jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Good call bentrop - you're right. Disabling adblock fixes the problem.

    You know, I'm so used to not seeing ads that it surprises me, anytime I see someone else's computer, how obnoxious the ads are.
  • okdewit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A well designed webpage (that is xhtml) shows up correctly in ALL browsers designed for the xhtml standard (like FF/IE/Opera/etc.) not only in Opera.
  • goblindegook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On the other hand, they do recommend Adblock.
  • Racoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For Windows users.
    If you make a shortcut to firefox in your "Send To" mapp you can rightclick a *.xpi file and "send to" firefox and it will install.
    This is if you download a .xpi file and save it to your HD and dont know how to install it.
    Your send to mapp is located "X:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMESendTo" where X=HD where you have Windows installed.
  • tmahmood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Looks OK to me
  • Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's adblock.
  • robzepeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Personally, I like:
    AdBlock (no brainer...probably the best thing about FireFox)
    IE View Lite (IE Tab is cool, but sometimes pages just insist on being loaded in IE)
    ImageZoom (my desktop is set to a high resolution so being able to hold R-Click and scroll wheel to zoom is handy)
    PDF Download (will convert PDF files to HTML for viewing - I hate launching Acrobat Reader if I dont need it)
    Tab Mix Plus (adds better control over you tabs)
  • wilwheaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can also save the .xpi file, open a the folder where it was saved, and drag the .xpi file onto Firefox, which will happily install the extension for you. I've done this on Linux and on Mac, so I assume it works on Windows, too.
  • Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Is misspelling "it's" when correcting someone else ironic?
  • Stalks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or just double click and choose firefox from the "Which App?" dialog box. If you tick the "Always use this app." tickbox you can double click any future XPI and it loads it in Firefox.
  • yuyafox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i picked up two extensions from that web....firefox is great.
  • linnerd40, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@M4Vi3rIC
    Pathetic Fallacy is "The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature" How the heck does that have anything to do with the page not being viewed properly? And its not 11th grade english, I learned that in 8th grade (where you should have also learn the correct usage AND SPELLING of "its" and "it's")
  • projektmayhem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah it looks fine for me too
  • cam18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1some really good extensions I have and some I don't

    +digg
  • hungarianhc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3great list!
  • ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1excellent collection ... too bad firefox doesn't seem to want to install the extension directly from download.com so I find myself searching mozilla.org for them.
  • FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm surprised Greasemonkey didn't make it onto a 3 page list. I think it's the greatest thing since open-source sliced bread.
  • locust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0here are some extensions I love, that haven't been mentioned:
    Cooliris Previews (opens up a lil window showing the page on any link you hover your mouse over)
    RelaodEvery (lets you set a reload interval on a particular page)
    RestartTabbed(lets you restart ff real quick, with tabs open)
    Resurrect Pages (lets u find dead pages)
    Tab Mix Plus (the best and only, tab manager)
  • okdewit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It looks fine for me, on a clean windows PC with a clean FF 1.5
    I never liked C-net (all the adware flooded programs they are distributing) but this article is OK. My top 10 would have looked different though, perhaps because I'm a GreaseMonkey fan.
  • rayray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good job. Blame the designers when you disable the advertisements on the site they designed and it breaks the design. Good job guys.
  • fredludd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One of my favorite extensions is WebDeveloper, which includes a convenient way to send any page to the W3C validator. Interestingly, the query for this download.com page returns "Failed validation, 179 errors". So maybe the page looks like crap because I have AdBlock turned on.... yeah, how dare I complain about the messed-up view I get of their carefully constructed page?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These are the 2 extensions I install when I have to work on Firefox:
    - Mouse gestures extension
    - Session saver extension
    Thus I can use it "as if" I were using Opera.
  • SystemHasFailed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea I noticed that the article doesn't display correctly in FF either. Fortunately with the IETab plugin for Firefox you can switch the rendering engine to IE on the fly and display it correctly.

    http://ietab.mozdev.org/

    (This SHOULD go without saying that this only works in Windows)
  • nmdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3haha yea i just noticed that
  • AlexLand, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3It looks okay to me.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1[deleted]
  • dmron, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Yessssssssssssss, another "best extensions" list! Gee, haven't seen many of these on digg recently! Oh wait, there's one every ***** week! Just what I want to read, what some douchebag ***** at CNET thinks the best extensions are.
  • M4v3rIC, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1That's not irony. I'ts pathetic fallacy. Grade 11 english anyone?
  • paroxsitic, on 10/12/2007, -25/+2The site looks fine in Opera.
    I think it was designed according to the correct standards, firefox just doesn't display them right.

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