Firefox cool tips and recommended add-ons

Glaucus · 5 Apr 2008 at 14:25

Burnsy2023 said:
I love my PicLens extension, it's so shiny

Burnsy

Wow that's stunning. Thanks

Begbie · 5 Apr 2008 at 19:04

My firefox used to spell words correctly for me, why doesn't it do it anymore? After re-instaling is there an addon for this.

Glaucus · 5 Apr 2008 at 19:06

Begbie said:
My firefox used to spell words correctly for me, why doesn't it do it anymore? After re-instaling is there an addon for this.

if you goto addons have you got an English dictionary installed?

cavemanoc · 5 Apr 2008 at 19:15

I often find that updates lose the British English dictionary - update it or re-install should sort it out.

timking · 6 Apr 2008 at 10:59

Loving Piclens, excellent app. Been slack with checking for FF add-ons recently, but after this top thread I've now got :

Piclens
Gmail Notifier
Secure Login

Craig321 · 6 Apr 2008 at 11:06

Oxy said:
Lo,

Been using forefox since 2004, but im ashamed to say I have never used any addon.

After reading a post on here to today about firefox 3 beta 5 I decided to upgrade, must say ff3 is well good.

Been setting up some "smart bookmars" above the tab bar, must say they are really handy.

Just wondering what other cool settings there are? and what add-ons do people reccomend?

Cheers

My required mods:

Adblock Plus
British English Dictionary (default is US, who don't know how to spell )
DownloadHelper (download YouTube videos etc.)
Fission (puts the loading bar in your address bar - similar style to how it is in Safari)
FlashGot (helps integrate download managers (e.g. Orbit) into Firefox)
Google Toolbar for Firefox
PDF Download (rather than opening the PDF in the window, which is very dodgy for me as I have slow internet, it'll ask you what you want to do with it... Save, view, ignore etc.)
Web Developer (just a tool for analysing pages for web design/creation)