Firefox Extensions
Allen August 25th, 2005
If you haven’t tried Firefox (a web browser), please give it a try. It is one of my favorite applications and I now rarely use IE except for pages that are broken (hear me Yahoo Mail?).
One of the nice things for Firefox is the ability to add extensions. Here is my current toolset:
- Yahoo! Toolbar
- Allows you to access all your Yahoo! goodies from your browser. My Web, email, etc. Of course, if you see Yahoo as the embodiment of all evil, you probably won’t want this toolbar.
- NoScript
- Allows you to block JavaScript of all websites, by default. You can authorize JavaScript for those sites you trust.
- BugMeNot
- Ever visted a site that required you to register? This allows you to left-click into a text field for the user name and get a fake user name from BugMeNot.
- IE View
- Allows you to re-open a window in IE (or mark it as always opened in IE).
- Popup ALT Attribute
- A somewhat controversial extension for web-purists. This displays the ALT tag when you hover over an image — just as IE does. The TITLE tag is what web authors should be using for this field, but many use the ALT tag instead.
- miniT
- One of the newest extensions I’m trying out, it allows you to drag tabs around to re-arrange them. BTW, tabbed browsing is one of the best features of Firefox.
- SessionSaver
- Remembers all the tabs and where they were when you exit out of Firefox. Next time you fire up, the browser appears exactly as you had loaded last time.
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