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#1 Audrey

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Posted 23 August 2010 - 06:25 PM

With by new baby Dell I am using Firefox..
There are so many add ons..
what are some of the interesting and fun ones you suggest I use....or that you guys use
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Posted 23 August 2010 - 06:54 PM

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Posted 23 August 2010 - 06:56 PM

Ad Block Plus, WOT, IEView Lite, Toolbar Buttons and Personas are my personal choices.
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Posted 23 August 2010 - 08:31 PM

This is what I have....LOL

- abcTajpu "a b c type-oo"
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- Adblock Plus
Ads were yesterday!
- Athena
Canned Speech Management Extension
- Autofill Forms
Fill out web forms automatically
- BBCodeXtra
Adds BBCode/HTML/XHTML and custom tags commands to the context menu
- ChromEdit Plus
A User Profile Editor Plus... Open The Chrome, Profile, & Install Folders. Open The File Manager. Restart Application.
- ColorSuckr
Extracts colors from images and build color schemes
- CoLT
Makes it easy to copy link text and locations.
- Context Highlight
Lets you highlight words on the page via the context menu.
- Converter
Contextual unit, timezone, and currency converter.
- Craigslist Image Prefetcher
Preview images and ads for Craigslist search results
- CSS Usage
Firebug extension to view which CSS rules are really used on your site.
- CustomizeGoogle
(Incompatible)
Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.
- DownloadHelper
Download videos and images from many sites
- Extension List Dumper
Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
- Extension Manager Extended
Use the extension manager to view the id and the folder of an extension.
- FastestFox
View "related articles" box on Wikipedia, search selected text from popup bubble and context menu, search from the Awesomebar, easily switch search engines for a search, and visit bookmarks with keyboard shortcuts!
- FEBE
(Disabled)
Backup your Firefox data
- Firebug
Web Development Evolved.
- FireFTP
FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox.
- Flagfox
Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server
- Forecastfox l10n
Get international weather forecasts from weather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
- GoogleEnhancer
Adds icons, highlighting, numbers and options to Google results
- IE Tab Plus
An enhanced version of IE Tab which enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.
- IMDb Preview
Preview movie & actor posters when hovering over their IMDb links. Also integrates MyMovies to the movie page.
- Java Console
- Lazarus: Form Recovery
Recover lost forms with a single click
- Malware Search
Searchs various malware databases for selected words.
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET Framework versions to the web server.
- MR Tech Toolkit
MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US)
- Open In RegEdit
Select registry keys in the page and open them in the registry editor
- OperaView
(Incompatible)
Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Flock context menus.
- Organize Status Bar
Organise your status bar icons.
- Page Speed
Speed up your web pages with this performance diagnostics tool. Requires Firebug.
- PDF Download
Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML.
- Personas
Your Firefox, your style. Easy-to-change themes.
- Polski slownik poprawnej pisowni
- ReminderFox
Displays and manages reminders and ToDo's
- Remove It Permanently
Permanently hide items from the Context Menu
- Resizeable Textarea
Resize textareas to your needs.
- Save Session
Save Session can save the session only once.
- SearchIMDB
Search the highlighted text at IMDB.
- ShowIP
Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident. License GPLv2 only.
- SmoothWheel (AMO)
Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel
- Tab Mix Plus
Tab browsing with an added boost.
- Thumbnail Expander
Expands image thumbnails into full images and embeds some video links.
- Torrent Finder Toolbar
Searches over 150 top torrent sites and trackers.
- WOT
Web of trust.
- Xmarks
Bookmark Sync and Web Discovery

#5 Berton Re: Add ons for FF

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Posted 23 August 2010 - 10:54 PM

My choice for saving the Flash videos on YouTube and other sites is the Ant Toolbar from www.ant.com. Then I can use the FLV Player from www.applian.com to view them later.

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Posted 23 August 2010 - 11:04 PM

I use the EXIF viewer for my photos

https://addons.mozil...fox/addon/3905/
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Posted 23 August 2010 - 11:07 PM

Gee thanks guys Happiness is..........having great friends like
you guys ..
Thank you so much
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Posted 24 August 2010 - 02:39 AM

Mine are:

1.Better Privacy (deletes LSO Cookies)
2.Last pass
2. WOT
4.gtranslate (translator tool)
5.Fast Dial
6. AdBlock Plus
7. Vacuum Places (cleans cache and cookies)
8. No Scripts (requires some tweaking if used)

Edit: I use Miro for downloading streaming radio and videos. I think it is only a Linux Application though. Not a Plugin per se.
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Posted 24 August 2010 - 02:44 AM

I like
No Script ( JMAC recommends it)
WOT-- Web of Trust
Ad Block
Flagfox
Web Mail notifier for Yahoo or GMail
Ghostery
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Posted 24 August 2010 - 11:11 AM

I don't use FF, but I have extensions to.

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Posted 24 August 2010 - 10:41 PM

:pianosmiley: Hi Guys
Question please
:man_stuck_in_computer_monitor_sW:pianosmiley: hat is the difference between ad block and add block plus.. do I need one or both...?
Thanks eh


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Posted 24 August 2010 - 10:53 PM

You want AdBlock PLus only.

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 12:47 PM

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 03:51 PM

After you install AdBlock Plus, make sure to subscribe to one of filter lists: http://adblockplus.o...n/subscriptions
This one will do. Click on EasyList and confirm.

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