List your Firefox add-ons

I try to keep addons to a minimum nowadays, but I've found these too useful to do without:

  • Adblock Plus - needs no introduction
  • Add Bookmark Here - adds bookmarks directly where you want them within bookmark menu structure
  • Copy Link Text - easily copy hyperlinks without having to highlight them, eg for insertion into documents
  • Kitten Block - avoid getting stressed by accidentally visiting Daily Mail or Express websites
  • LastPass - best password manager I've found to date (includes sophisticated form filler, secure notes etc), syncs across multiple browsers/locations
  • Mozilla Archive Format - saves web pages as single file
  • ScrapBook - similar to above, but creates local copy of web page structure, will also save snippets and recurse links
  • WebMail Notifier - self-explanatory, handles Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo accounts
  • Xmarks Sync - bookmark/history syncing. Faster, nicer to use and more reliable than FF Sync in my experience, also cross-browser compatible. Recently acquired by LastPass developers.

Still using FF 3.6 here, so not sure about 4.0 compatibility of the above.
 
Capt'n Crash, I noticed you listed Webmail Notifier. Do you not have Gmail open permanently in its own tab? Mine is always open and it'll say "Inbox (1)" on the tab if I have new email. Sure the (1) is out of view by default but you can change that in Google Labs so that it appears straight after Inbox, and thus on the tab itself. That prevents you from having to flick through tabs to check if you have new email or not.
 
Monserrat said:
Capt'n Crash, I noticed you listed Webmail Notifier. Do you not have Gmail open permanently in its own tab? Mine is always open and it'll say "Inbox (1)" on the tab if I have new email. Sure the (1) is out of view by default but you can change that in Google Labs so that it appears straight after Inbox, and thus on the tab itself. That prevents you from having to flick through tabs to check if you have new email or not.
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I guess that would work, but I have several webmail accounts (spread across Gmail, Hotmail & Yahoo), and things would get a bit cluttered if I kept a tab permanently open for each one. WebMail Notifier also lets you specify the checking interval for each account independently, which is handy if you use one or more primarily as a signup address/spam bucket.

Besides, I'd probably end up closing a dedicated mail tab or navigating away from the webmail page without thinking, so your solution would probably be more suited to someone a bit less absent-minded than me. :)
 
SiriusB said:
Thought of a solution.

Create a button that opens a menu! Similar to say the Bookmark drop down. It is small, unobtrusive and probably easy to do. I made my own by dumping a bookmark to each subforum I like in a folder and putting it in my bookmarks toolbar! :p

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Yup, that's the way I'm going....but I'm also learning how to make it Chrome compatible too....V2.0 is on it's way!
 
CaptainCrash said:
I guess that would work, but I have several webmail accounts (spread across Gmail, Hotmail & Yahoo), and things would get a bit cluttered if I kept a tab permanently open for each one.
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Ahhh okies :-) Didn't realise you had all of those.

Khaaan! said:
Why not just use your mouse's back/fwd button :p
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My mouse is a bog standard 3-button mouse with a wheel as the middle button. I use CTRL-wheel to zoom or press the wheel in to go back 1 page.
 
loving that Android to Phone thing, its great :D opens quite fast on my San Fran using default browser xD

Anyone know of a smooth scrolling add-on, if there is one, similar to that of the Opera scrolling style?
 
Yet Another Smooth Scrolling is excellent, it takes some tweaking so let me know if you can't tweak it right, I will post my settings.
 
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