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- directedition, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23adblock, the only extension you really need.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You could just get Mr. Tech and force computability.
I have 55 active extension and 61 in total. Yet I only have a bookmarks bar and a menu bar because Firefox lets you move around the buttons to anywhere unlike Opera or IE. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I have 28, and 27 of them work with FF2.0. What are you waiting for?
- Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't bother reading anymore down in the comments, it's just people bragging about how leet they are. >_>
- irieKEN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I recommend adding Filterset.G to enhance Adblock.
Also, TabMixPlus is great (duplicate tab is just one wonderful feature that FF should have standard).
FEBE is great if you ever want to move all your extensions to another machine at once. And FoxMarks Sync is great for syncing your bookmarks between multiple computers. - Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you dont like it, dont ***** read it, and dont bother opening the comments section just to moan either.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Original Adblock ceased development, I believe.
Not that it doesn't work just fine... - jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12and NoScript.
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I dunno, but I'm doing my best to digg up all unfairly down-dugg comments.
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, why are all these comments getting dugg down? Seems like we have some Opera fanbois messing around here.
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's really a matter of what extensions you choose, not how many you install. In particular, many of the worst offenders are the medium-sized extensions. Why? Because the small extensions usually only produce one-shot functionality on demand, and the large extensions are usually full-fledged XUL applications that use Firefox or Gecko only as a general scripting/rendering engine. (Much the way a total conversion mod for a game works.)
As I said when I posted my list, I have 22 extensions. How many of them are seriously pervasive parts of my installation of Firefox? Only five: Firebug, Adblock, AIO Gestures, PageStyle2Tab, and Tabbrowser Preferences. I chose these five extremely carefully, and I interact with them every time I use Firefox. They work quite well for me, despite the fact that they probably consume more resources than my other 17 extensions combined. - themajor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm not gonna bash Opera, because I love the browser, and used it for a while, but came back to FF because I loved it more. Just out of curiosity though, how many extensions does it take to emulate Opera and how secure is the package?
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Batch Download
BugMeNot
Download Statusbar
dragdropupload
Greasemonkey
LiveClick
MinimizeToTray
New Tab Button on Tab Bar
NoScript
Track Package - Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -1/+320
most important
adblock, gestures - ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8...when you're well endowed you don't need any extensions.
- brianb722, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've got 9...
Adblock
Adsense Notifier
Colorzilla
Console2
CustomizeGoogle
del.icio.us Complete
Download Statusbad
Gmail Notifier
Web Developer - hitkaiser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34
IE Tab for those persistent sites..
Macafee Site Advisor, nice to steer away from dodgy sites on google
Facebook Toolbar
Google Brownser Sync (for work/home so useful) - converge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29
Adblock
FilterSet.G
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
Download Statusbar
Forecastfox
IE Tab
Searchbar Autosizer
Stop-or-Reload Button
Also, what is the different between Adblock and Adblock Plus? - kronix2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1By the way, most of them are small tweaks and useful add-ons. The only toolbars I have enabled are the AIO Sidebar sidebar and the FormatToolbar which comes with Toolbar Buttons.
About 50 of those extensions are absolutely essential. You get used to their presence. IMO extensions are what set FF apart from Opera and IE. If it's possible, there'll be an extension. - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So why did you open the comments section?
- theaceoffire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am suprised many of you are missing the most important one:
Menu Editor.
^_^ It lets you edit your context menus, drop down menus, and tab menus.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/710/
I have dozens of extensions, and my right click menu has 5 options or less most of the time.... Not to mention that I can move stuff from my menu to a dropdown, or visa versa. - Wingnut233, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have 11, most of them are the regular ones you'd see, like Adblock, Tab Mix Plus, Video Downloader, etc.
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have 22 extensions in my installation of Firefox Portable. Here's my list, split into three groups and with short descriptions:
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Application Substitutes:
ChatZilla (IRC client)
CHM Reader (uses Firefox to read Windows CHM files)
Firebug (web development extension I'm testing)
FireFTP (FTP client)
Numpad Typing Drills (tests typing skill with keyboard number pad)
Sage (uses Firefox chrome to read RSS feeds)
Major Firefox Mods:
Adblock (blocks ads on pages)
All-in-One Gestures (perform commands by gesturing with the mouse)
Download Manager Tweak (I use it because it can load into a tab)
DownThemAll! (good for automating and accelerating downloads)
IE Tab (view webpages using IE's rendering engine)
PageStyle2Tab (Firefox interface itself (or just the tab) shifts to render itself using a webpage's stylesheet)
Tabbrowser Preferences (various interface modifications)
Minor Firefox Mods:
Firesomething (humorous random renaming of Firefox; cracked for FF 2.0)
Fission (merges progress bar into background of address bar)
MinimizeToTray (minimizing Firefox sends it to the Windows system tray) (also installed in Thunderbird)
MR Tech Link Wrapper (long links can be wrapped to remove horizontal scroll bar (I turn it on only as needed))
Open Link In... (finer control over how new tabs are loaded)
PDF Download (finer control over how PDF files are downloaded)
Professor X (convenient way to look at source of a webpage)
Restart Firefox (quick and easy way to restart a specific instance of Firefox)
X-Ray (convenient way to look at source of a webpage)
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This doesn't include my three custom search engine plugins: Digg, Wikipedia, and the Etymology Dictionary. Wikipedia is my default, but I use all three of these regularly.
I had thought about installing GreaseMonkey, but I decided that I really didn't need it. I also had QuickNote installed for a while, but it doesn't play well with Firefox Portable. I'm also looking at a menu customization extension, to see if it's something I'd want. - digitalrift, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3adblock, and IEtabs.. that's all I really need.
- freff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I completely agree with the Opera comment. Everything I want and need without adding extensions. Firefox is cool, and without a doubt a better browser than IE, but Opera has all the features I'm looking for combined with the best performance for me.
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Zero
And I do use Firefox as my only browser. - jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+114, 4 of them are disabled though
- azzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Seems like I have 9. I've written a couple of extensions (FoxClocks), and so I have some idea what goes on at Firefox startup - there's often no way of avoiding a fair bit of overhead to initialize an extension, so I'm reluctant to have too many installed. I'd be interested to know how much faster a Firefox install with say 40 extensions starts up when they're all disabled. (Hey, that's a cool idea for an extension - disable all the others, restart, and time startup).
* Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
* Adblock Plus 0.5.11.4
* CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.8.1
* DOM Inspector 1.8.1
* FoxClocks 2.0.19
* FoxClocks - Ashes 2006/7 Data 1.0
* Html Validator 0.7.9.5
* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.1
* Talkback 2.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1117/ - ninesquaredis81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone else think this poll would have been more interesting if we could have entered exact numbers? There's a huge difference between 1 extension and 9.
- M0b1u5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Quite a few.
But EasyGestures is by far thebest extension ever made.
* Adblock 0.5.3.042
* Console² 0.3.5
* Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0.1
* Fasterfox 1.0.3
* Favicon Picker 0.3.0
* Firesomething 1.7.0
* HashColouredTabs 0.3.3
* IE Tab 1.0.9
* IE View Lite 1.1.5
* InfoLister 0.9c
* Linkification 1.2.3
* MR Tech Link Wrapper 2.0.2
* Popup ALT Attribute 1.3.2005092701
* Resize Search Box 0.0.7
* Restart Firefox 0.3
* Show Image 0.4.1
* SmoothWheel 0.44.7.20050605
* Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2
* Tab Clicking Options 0.6.4
* Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9
* VideoDownloader 1.1
* easyGestures 3.3
* undoclosetab 20051204 - unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28, and that makes me comfortable, otherwise i look for features that arent there.
Adblock, Tab Mix Plus, Forecastfox, fasterfox, fireftp, IE tab, downthemall, pdf download - Xenogis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have seven and just noticed I don't need 4 of them. Now I have 3.
- lhnz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Last updated: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:59:12 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
*** Extensions (enabled: 30, disabled: 12; total: 42)
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2
Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5
All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.1 [disabled]
Autohide 1.1.3 [disabled]
British English Dictionary 1.19
BugMeNot 1.3
ChatZilla 0.9.77
CustomizeGoogle 0.55
del.icio.us 1.2
Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0.1 [disabled]
DOM Inspector 1.8.1
Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1
Download Statusbar 0.9.4.5
Extended Statusbar 1.2.5
Fasterfox 2.0.0
FAYT 1.0
Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 4.0.4
Fission 0.8.6
FlashGot 0.5.97.02 [disabled]
Foxylicious 0.7 [disabled]
Free Download Manager plugin 1.0 [disabled]
Full Screen 0.5
Google Safe Browsing 1.1 [disabled]
Googlepedia 0.4.3 [disabled]
IE Tab 1.2.0.20061120
InfoLister 0.9f
Inline Google Definitions 0.5
Menu Editor 1.2.3
Mouse Gestures 1.5.2
Nightly Tester Tools 1.2.1
pageaddict 0.3.0 [disabled]
PDF Download 0.7.6
refspoof 0.7.0 [disabled]
Reveal 1.0.6 [disabled]
StumbleUpon 2.89
Stylish 0.4
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.0.061121
Talkback 2.0
Thumbs 0.6.3
Tiny Menu 1.3
Torbutton 1.0.4 [disabled]
UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) 1.7.0
*** Themes (8)
Crystal Dream
Firefox (default)
iFox Graphite
iFox Smooth
Internet Explorer XP
miniFoxFlat [selected]
Pinstripe
Qute - mpam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have 14 enabled extensions + 15 disabled... here are the enabled
* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2
* Add N Edit Cookies 0.2.1.0
* CustomizeGoogle 0.54
* DOM Inspector 1.8.1
* DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7
* Firebug 1.0b1
* Gmail Notifier 0.5.6.5
* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1
* NoScript 1.1.4.5.061030
* Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.1.1
* Tamper Data 9.8.1
* Torbutton 1.0.4
* Web Developer 1.0.2
* Yes popups 0.9.7.6
... after reading this list, I think I'll disable DOM Inspector and Firebug... :D - swaxhog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, it's pretty sad. What Step is denial?
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um... ... i don't have any...
Session Saver broke at 2.0... and the built in just isn't the same.
(Haven't investigated the rumored *last update ever* version) - swizzcheez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Answer: a lot, but I don't let any of them become toolbars.
- dscottp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1just a few:
Adblock (only non-dev one I have, helps keep ads with scantily clad girls off my work computer)
DOM inspector
Firebug (installed it the other day and I love it)
Live HTTP Headers
Tamper Data
Web Developer
Are there any great developer extentions I'm missing? - SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Got about 15, anything more and I can only imagine what memory usage you have. Anything over 25 is just crazy IMO...
- dicknuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just 5:
Adblock
NoScript
Flashblock
BugMeNot
VideoDownloader - dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+252 :-/ Looks like I'm the only fellow here with >40.
- kalmi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If you don't care about extensions you should try Opera.
Opera works well out of the box.(not like firefox)
Firefox needs at least a few to work nicely. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You can take a look at this list to see comparison of FF extenions to built-in Opera functionality: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/09/opera-and-firefox-extensions-ii
I consider myself a power user, and I've never needed to use FF instead of Opera because of extension functionality. - fractured, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Opera is good enough for me. Especially how it starts up in 1 second
Digg me down firefox fanboys! - trparky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks for your extension, I just installed it. I have people I talk to in the UK so having their local time is great.
- trparky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Nope, I have 49.
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Has anyone found a working YahooMail notifier? All these either don't work or only work up till Firefox 1.5:
Radio & Gobierno de Puerto Rico
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3813/
international football Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3845/
MyOrkut Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3644/
Torrent Search
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2607/
Mojabosna Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2953/
myMatchDates Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3021/
myCampusDates Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3020/
Telliss Toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3022/ - swaxhog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I have 10 at work, maybe 5 at home.
adblock+
Filterset
downthemall
farkit
fireftp
pdf download
proxybutton
scrapbook
videodownloader
greasemonkey - linuxwarz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Just the basics...
Adblock Plus
Noscript
Live HTTP Headers
...basic. - honds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I'll take a moment to plug FireBug. This thing replaced 5 other extension for me. It can be used for Javascript debugging, DOM inspection, real time DOM editing, and Javascript injection to a certain extent. Really cool tool for web developers and security experts.
- note: I am not affiliated with the extension nor to I know anyone on the team. -
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