Top Firefox Extensions? **

martin9887 · 20 Dec 2008 at 09:37

I use Adblock Plus, New Tab Homepage and the British dictionary.

Mattus · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:37

Adblock Plus - absolutely essential.
All-In-One Gestures
DownThemAll + FlashGot
Firebug
Fission

Everyone always mentions NoScript. I tried it once but having to allow JS on every vaguely interactive site I visited annoyed the hell out of me. I'd rather just take the risk.

Glaucus · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:56

Can't believe no one has said BBCodeXtra. Awesome for this and other forums.

BBCodeXtra is an extension, compatible with Mozilla FireFox and Mozilla Suite, which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way...

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:59

am I the only one who uses glasser or smooth scrolling?

Glaucus · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:04

yantorsen said:
am I the only one who uses glasser or smooth scrolling?

I do.

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:06

AcidHell2 said:
I do.

gonna say because I couldn't live without either and nobody mentioned them.

What are the most common themes people use? I just use glasser with the default theme.

cotton_flex · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:09

thanks for mentioning glasser and smooth scrolling! Brilliant!

Glaucus · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:11

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 17:11

acidhell2 what smooth scrolling add on do you use? Because there is quite a few?

edit: just seen the above post so no need to reply

SimonC · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:48

<madness> you got the code for that stylish style?
I have something similar but yours is cool

Craig321 · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:51

GM2 said:
OK, following on from "Top 5 Bits of Software", here's:

TOP FIREFOX EXTENSIONS

Which FF extensions / add-ons can't you live without? List as long or short as you like, but again, about 5 would probably be best!

Not really in any particular order:

Adblock Plus
NoScript
CustomizeGoogle
Hide Menubar - makes it look so much nicer
nzbdStatus

Azagoth · 20 Dec 2008 at 22:15

Craig321 · 20 Dec 2008 at 22:16

Azagoth said:
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You don't need Filterset.g with Adblock Plus do you? Does it improve the block lists?

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 23:06

does anyone use fasterfox?

tolien · 20 Dec 2008 at 23:17

no one with any sense should use Fasterfox - it breaks more than it fixes.

Craig321 said:
You don't need Filterset.g with Adblock Plus do you? Does it improve the block lists?

On the contrary, it causes a heap of problems so the Adblock Plus devs recommend removing it.

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 23:22

tolien said:
no one with any sense should use Fasterfox - it breaks more than it fixes.

seems to make it much faster here.

MarcLister · 20 Dec 2008 at 23:47

yantorsen said:
does anyone use fasterfox?

No. Causes more problems overall than it fixes for you I believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasterfox#Forced_Prefetch_controversy

yantorsen · 20 Dec 2008 at 23:58

MarcLister said:
No. Causes more problems overall than it fixes for you I believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasterfox#Forced_Prefetch_controversy

fasterfox lite which is what i use doesn't do the prefetching thing.

MarcLister · 21 Dec 2008 at 00:04

So what's the point in asking about Fasterfox when you're using Fasterfox Lite?

yantorsen · 21 Dec 2008 at 00:11

MarcLister said:
So what's the point in asking about Fasterfox when you're using Fasterfox Lite?

Well I didn't realise it made that much difference