Firefox Extensions I Use

May 12, 2007 · Filed Under What I Use

In an effort to populate my “What I Use” category and also show some of the products, software, and tools that I, a moderately knowledgeable internet citizen, use on a daily basis I now present; the Firefox Extensions that I use. Yes, I am fully aware that no one cares about “another Firefox extension top 10 list”, and that these are posted on Digg once every 4.7 minutes. I still look at most of them, you never know when that cool extension will pop up that you haven’t heard about. That’s where this list is different. It isn’t a top list, it is just all the extensions that I use. I didn’t even count them. Surely you can use at least one of these.

Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1
All-in-One Gestures 0.18.0
BugMeNot 1.3
ColorZilla 1.0
Firebug 1.05
Forecastfox 0.9.5.2
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 1.0.1
Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.0.20070217W
Image Zoom 0.3
InfoLister 0.9f
Paste and Go 2 0.8
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic 1.5

That was the quick list for your viewing pleasure. If you would like to read why I use each extension, read on. Otherwise, see you tomorrow.

Adblock Plus - Like I said once before I don’t leave my firewall without it. Although recently I have been leaving it disabled more and more because I have been observing the AdSense ad placement around the web and I got tired of white listing sites.

All-In-One Gestures - I got used to using this type of feature waaaay back when I was using MyIE2 (now Maxthon) and have been using them ever since.

BugMeNot - Good for bypassing login pages of newspapers.

ColorZilla - Pretty much only for those interested in web design or color schemes. Allows you to see the color code of any color on a web page.

FireBug - This is one awesome tool for designing web pages. Makes it super simple to test out changes in your CSS live without the save/refresh hassle. Feature request: Please add the ability to save the altered CSS code to a file.

Forecastfox - Weather in the status bar.

Foxmarks - If you use Firefox on multiple computers and have a large collection of bookmarks this is the best way to manage them. I used to use Bookmarks Synchronizer but it hasn’t been maintained since around Firefox 1.0.

Google Toolbar - I only use it to display the PageRank option.

Image Zoom - For zooming images of course.

InfoLister - A great way to keep track of the extensions you have have installed. I used it to create the list above.

Paste and Go 2 - A replacement to the original Paste and Go. This probably saves me about 0.3 seconds each time I past a link. I got started with this extension back before Firefox had a “go” button. As a matter of fact there was actually a “Go Button” extension I used for a while.

Pearl Crescent - Great for taking full length screen captures. I always think one of these would look really cool as a printed banner on a wall. Click here for an example. Warning, the image is quite large.

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