http://notes.theramblingchronicles.co.uk Making sense is optional Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:09:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://notes.theramblingchronicles.co.uk/2008/05/23/firefox-my-top-extensions/ http://notes.theramblingchronicles.co.uk/2008/05/23/firefox-my-top-extensions/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 11:19:01 +0000 Tom http://theramblingchronicles.co.uk/?p=32

• Add block plus – I think I only had adblock before, but adblock plus has a much better list of ads to block, and it works well. I don’t like ads anywhere (unless, of course, they’re actually good ads, but that doesn’t happen very often)
• British English dictionary. Pretty self explanatory, me being British and speaking English.
• Download statusbar – shows your downloads across the bottom of the window, so you can keep an eye on their progress. Much better than having to keep checking the download window.
• Download helper – don’t use this to often, but it’s great for getting videos off places like youtube without any hassles.
• DownThemAll – like this for downloading lots of files at the same time, and although I don’t use it that often, when I do it takes a huge amount of work out of things.
• Feed sidebar – used to use Sage for my RSS feeds¹ but sadly the devlopers seem to have disapeared. This is a pretty good replacement actually, does exactly what I want it to, which is display my RSS feeds. Simple.
• Firebug²- The most useful extension I have when desgning websites. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ll mention it again because it’s so useful.
• FireFTP³ – who needs a standalone FTP client when you can just use a fully featured one in the browser?
• Redirect remover – handy for stopping thos annoying sites that try to trap you in frames or send you via an add page on the way out.
• Web Developer Toolbar – Another extremely useful web design tool, allows you to highlight things, turn things on and off and check things are valid⁴

There are a couple that are also warranting a mention, but as yet (23/05/2008) don’t seem to work on Firefox 3:

• Zotero – This saved me through university this year, and I hope it’ll do it next year. Creating references and bibliographies without the tedious hassle, as well as allowing you to keep track of everything you’ve used.
• Greasemonkey – Most of the time I don’t use it, but sometimes you get to a site that just needs a tweak to make it better, which is where this handy tool comes in.

1. mostly just webcomics really, I actually visit the news sites I want to read ↩
2. You need to get the beta from the official site to get it working in Firefox 3 ↩
3. Again, you need to get the beta from the official site to get it working in Firefox 3 ↩
4. I also use it for getting rid of CSS on myspace pages when I can’t read them, and for fixing sites that seem to have an allergic reaction to Firefox ↩

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