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10 Killer Firefox Extensions You Probably Don’t Know About

webupon.com — This isn't the usual list of extensions that everyone is used to using, but 10 add-ons that many may not know about, but can be very useful for everyday web browsing.

Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 11, 2008

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  • davidwasman, on 03/11/2008, -11/+185If by Killer you mean they hinder Firefox's performance, then yes. I have tried most of these extensions in the past and they are all too glitchy and shoot Firefox's memory up massively.
  • evanstapler, on 03/11/2008, -5/+99Hello, 911? Yes, a group of 10 Firefox extensions just KILLED my friend! I need help immediately!
  • JNudda, on 03/11/2008, -11/+82Only 2,5,7,9 can be described as "Killer" imo. The others (esp the preview ones) seem useless. There are way more useful addons than those.
  • thecosmicpope, on 03/11/2008, -5/+62Some may be glitchy, but the download bar is far far better than the default download client that FF has.
  • rayzha, on 03/11/2008, -9/+61No Mouse Gestures? No Gmail Notifier?
    What?!
  • inactive, on 03/11/2008, -3/+50great. more firefox add-ons that just end up sitting in my browser gathering dust after the novelty wears off
  • pigfister, on 03/11/2008, -2/+41My personal Favs:

    Adblock Plus: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
    NoScript: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=n ...
    Firebug: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
    FEBE(firefox backup): http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
    IE View: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/35
    User Agent Switcher: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
    ShowIP(quick on screen ip info): http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/590

    Both of these are fun and handy.
    Cooliris: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207
    PicLens: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
  • Rotzooi, on 03/11/2008, -1/+37Some more suggestions:

    -Allow Right-Click (self-explanatory)
    -Bookmark backup (auto-backups not only bookmarks, but ALL of FF's settings, plugins etc)
    -BugMeNot (draws login information from BugMeNot's website to avoid those annoying useless website registrations)
    -CustomizeGoogle (try it and see that you can, in fact, improve on Google's offerings)
    -DownThemAll (leech entire websites or specific types of files)
    -Greasemonkey (been named before, but who can live without?!)
    -IE View (for those pesky sites that won't display in anything but IE)
    -Linkification (very useful, makes clickable links of anything that looks like http, hxxp, h**p, etc, and hasn't been properly linked)
    -Linky (opens, if you so wish, masses of links in new tabs or alternatively, downloads them)
    -OpenLanguage (spellchecker for dozens of languages)
    -Refreshblocker (self-explanatory)
    -PDF Download (asks you what to do when you click a PDF file, very handy)
    -refspoof (Spoof referrers for sites that are being 'difficult')
    -ReloadEvery (opposite of refreshblock)
    -Sage (RSS 7 Atom feed aggregator)
    -ScrapBook (copy/paste parts of webpage in a really inventive and easy way, including highlighting, adding of notes, etc. Powerful.)
    -ScreenGrab! (save the entire length of a website as jpg or png - or parts of it)

    I'm too lazy to provide links, but they are all easy to find.
  • rghai6, on 03/11/2008, -0/+31DownThemAll FTW !

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
  • fxu1989, on 03/11/2008, -0/+28Fission - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/195 ...
    - Address bar loads like Safari

    Adblock Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186 ...
    - If you don't have this one already .... sigh.

    Chatzilla - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
    - IRC

    FireFTP - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
    - FTP program

    FireShot - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/564 ...
    - Good for you 4channers & co ... takes screenshots of websites, visible or entire page.

    PDF Download - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
    - Prompts you what to do before opening a PDF .. read as html, open pdf, or cancel

    These are the addons I recommend, and that I use.

    Rest of the addons are memory-cloggers : ... you download them, use 'em for 1 or 2 days, and forget about them ...
  • gullevek, on 03/11/2008, -8/+3410 "kill" addons nobody cares about, but because firefox + killer + addon is in the subject it got dugg.
  • Neticule, on 03/11/2008, -17/+42Wow pic lens is so fun! Just installed it :) cool stuff!
  • bmw021, on 03/11/2008, -4/+27We already know about those.
  • sorrow, on 03/11/2008, -2/+24Maybe it would be.. if you couldn't wheel-click and open all the relevant results in new tabs and skip the middle result that you don't want.
  • Forky, on 03/11/2008, -0/+21but does not give you the ability to open many links with just one drag.
    handy if you want to look at images on a ftp or something.
  • aladrin, on 03/11/2008, -8/+28Your middle mouse button is faster and doesn't require an extra plugin loaded all the time.
  • shavenlunatic, on 03/11/2008, -3/+21"10 Killer Firefox Extensions You Probably Don’t Know About"

    Which parallel universe do you have to come from to have "probably" not heard of stumble??

    Other than that, nice list
  • Karmavs, on 03/11/2008, -1/+18your Mom loves me too…
  • romws, on 03/11/2008, -5/+21EMO
  • TheOther1, on 03/11/2008, -3/+18Perhaps you should write up a review of your 10 favorite "killer" extensions and submit it.
  • amsoell, on 04/20/2009, -0/+15Yeah, and we didn't know about StumbleUpon
  • tonyhartfield, on 03/11/2008, -7/+21i wish PicLens supported linux :(
  • wvdavis, on 03/11/2008, -1/+14Just downloaded it... this is going to save me tons of time downloading porn!!!
  • filefly, on 03/11/2008, -1/+14Your MOM posts childish "yo mama" comments.
  • peterredding, on 03/11/2008, -0/+121 killed my Firefox so at least the title is accurate.
  • sumeshpremraj, on 03/11/2008, -3/+15WARNING: This post is (mostly) a rip of http://www.killertechtips.com/2008/03/07/best-usef ... that was on digg a few days back. Even the title is similar.
  • BreathofCepheus, on 03/11/2008, -2/+13You're a *****..
  • Modizzle, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12Thanks for putting all that time and effort into telling us there are other more useful addons. You sir, are an asset to humanity.
  • ifnotme, on 03/11/2008, -3/+13A blatant rip off of: http://www.killertechtips.com/2008/03/07/best-usef ... (which was in the upcoming section today)
  • yoshman, on 03/11/2008, -3/+13...But my Mom says she loves me. :'(
  • Seantacular, on 03/11/2008, -0/+10download status is in beta3.
  • allhard, on 03/11/2008, -6/+14I can recommend one for you, It is called paragraphs.
  • drgmdp, on 03/11/2008, -0/+8#10 will change your browsing habits
  • Dested, on 03/11/2008, -1/+9Im glad you posted this. For anyone who hasnt installed mouse gestures yet, DO IT.
  • Murdats, on 03/11/2008, -0/+8tab mix plus, one of the best firefox plugins around
  • Tommyhawk, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7Hah. I just realized you could open a new tab by wheel-clicking a link.
  • niksko, on 03/11/2008, -6/+13Already had download status bar, so I knew about one of them... Half of these are just for the SUPER lazy, and 1 and 8 are just eye candy. Doesn't mean I'm not downloading 1 and 8 as I write this... Overall pretty good though. Might I suggest: Zotero - great if you're in school. Lets you take notes and automatically create bibliographies for pages you visit. Also Web Mail notifier, pretty cool lets you open your inbox with a single click. Foxy tunes - control your fav music player from within firefox. Forecast fox - weather. Net Usage meter - lets you see how much of your download allowance you have used. Adblock - blocks those pesky popups and ads. The digg extension - lets you see the top stories and auto submit stuff to digg. All in one Gestures is not bad - lets you assign simple gestures to common tasks. For me I hold down the right mouse button and then move up and right to change to my next tab.

    That's by no means an exhaustive list, but it's just some of the addons I use
  • subliminalurge, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7"Rest of the addons are memory-cloggers : ... you download them, use 'em for 1 or 2 days, and forget about them ..."

    I wouldn't go that far. Tab Mix Plus seems to do OK on memory, and I use it daily. In fact, I won't even upgrade FF until Tab Mix gets updated to run on the newest version.

    I'd also add Google Browser Sync to the list. It not only keeps bookmarks synchronized across multiple computers, but it synchronizes sessions, too. I can have 15 tabs open while I'm at work, shut down FF, and have those same 15 tabs load for me on my browser when I get home. I'm not sure if it's a memory hog or not, but even if it is, it's one I'm willing to live with.
  • aladrin, on 03/11/2008, -7/+14Middle mouse button works better than 2, and the previews are useless for 9.
  • drgmdp, on 03/11/2008, -3/+10that doesn't say anything good about mac pros
  • Lancer28, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8I probably do know about these.... The same article was on Digg last week.
  • aladrin, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6There's no difference between watching a preview of a rickroll and just clicking it. You've still been rickrolled since you thought you were going to get something different than you did.
  • weeeezzll, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7And "Download Statusbar"? It hardly fits the "Probably never heard of it" category
  • jejones, on 03/11/2008, -2/+8Nothing to do with the platform; it's a matter of the extension writer doing things in a bogus fashion by making it target-dependent. A proper Firefox extension should work no matter what the platform.
  • Murdats, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7"that you probably dont know about"
    i think that disqualifies adblock
  • allhard, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6Lawrence, I do not think immortalizing that statement in the Digg comments was a good idea.
  • Rabscuttle, on 03/11/2008, -2/+8i cant see it being too useful, how hard is it to wheel click multiple links?
    maybe for porn..... i mean pictures!
  • DivisibleByZero, on 03/11/2008, -2/+8Why use SnapLinks? Do you people not have a middle button? I mean, sure a click n' drag operation can be slightly faster than 3 or 4 middle clicks, but what if there's 3 links you want to go to with one that you don't want in the middle of them?
  • allhard, on 03/11/2008, -6/+11Your opinions on software do not count if you own a mac. Macs are for people who cannot understand PC's.
  • pigfister, on 03/11/2008, -0/+5i forgot Tor Button, Doh: http://www.torproject.org/
    Flashblock: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
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