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Firefox Fans! - What are your Favorite Add-ons and Why?

My favorite: FireFTP. I create web pages/sites on occasion and this provides a RIDICULOUSLY easy and free way to upload my pages to the Internet. I've tried others and this is BY FAR the best.
 
I used Firefox for a couple years. I really liked it until it began to consume resources so bad it got slow. Slower than IE7. I installed Chrome after that and have been using that ever since until this past week when I installed IE9. Now IE is as fast as Chrome but is more configurable.

Anyway, some of the add-ons I liked in Firefox included...
Colorful Tabs. This is an appearance add-on only but it made it easier to see the tabs on my screen.

CookieSafe. What I liked about this one is that it was easily configured to my preferences.

CoolPreviews. This was a nice viewer that allowed you to see a link without actually navigating off your current page and opening the link. If you decided you liked what you saw you can open it. Offered some nice configuration options.

NavigationalSounds. I like to hear when I click on a link so I know for sure it is loading. Firefox didn't have built-in sounds and this one provided some of the basics similar to IE.

Toolbar Buttons. This add-on provided the ability to add more menu buttons to your toolbars that Firefox didn't already have.

I tried CoolIris but found I had little use for it.

This is one of the things I miss with Chrome and IE but they are getting more stuff all the time.
 
WIP said:
I used Firefox for a couple years. I really liked it until it began to consume resources so bad it got slow. Slower than IE7. I installed Chrome after that and have been using that ever since until this past week when I installed IE9. Now IE is as fast as Chrome but is more configurable.

Anyway, some of the add-ons I liked in Firefox included...
Colorful Tabs. This is an appearance add-on only but it made it easier to see the tabs on my screen.

CookieSafe. What I liked about this one is that it was easily configured to my preferences.

CoolPreviews. This was a nice viewer that allowed you to see a link without actually navigating off your current page and opening the link. If you decided you liked what you saw you can open it. Offered some nice configuration options.

NavigationalSounds. I like to hear when I click on a link so I know for sure it is loading. Firefox didn't have built-in sounds and this one provided some of the basics similar to IE.

Toolbar Buttons. This add-on provided the ability to add more menu buttons to your toolbars that Firefox didn't already have.

I tried CoolIris but found I had little use for it.

This is one of the things I miss with Chrome and IE but they are getting more stuff all the time.
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Interesting. I never find Firefox slow. However I use Chrome mostly on my netbook.

I'll never support the IE browsers while they refuse to support proper web development methods. :grumpy
 
I know very little about web development, actually zilch, so I guess I can't say anything about that. My current go-to browser is still Chrome but I've been giving IE9 a shot the last couple days.
 
I put in Walnut II . It gives a nice golden wood tone to the page and I managed this one with out any outside help :yes
 
WIP Google is good at what it does but it is creepy. It really follows ya around...makes me feel sorta like i have taken "the mark".... :bigfrown
 
I added FastestFox a while ago. I'm not sure of everything it does, but one nice thing is that it creates a continuous page when you do a search. Instead of clicking next page, next page, next page... you just keep scrolling down as the scroll bar gets smaller and smaller. Nice! :thumbsup
 
Mike said:
I added FastestFox a while ago. I'm not sure of everything it does, but one nice thing is that it creates a continuous page when you do a search. Instead of clicking next page, next page, next page... you just keep scrolling down as the scroll bar gets smaller and smaller. Nice! :thumbsup
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That sounds nice. Maybe it's time for me to give FF another shot. Maybe some of you geeks in the crowd can tell us. Does installing multiple search engines pose any potential problems (using them individually) such as over-use of shared files and stuff like that?
 
reba said:
WIP Google is good at what it does but it is creepy. It really follows ya around...makes me feel sorta like i have taken "the mark".... :bigfrown
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I have heard that Chrome does that but so far I haven't experienced any side effects....that I'm aware of. One of the features I don't like is that I can't manage cookies very well, which lends validity to your statement. For example they don't let us configure it so all cookies are deleted except those we wish to keep. It's either all or none unless there's been an add-on created that I haven't found yet.
 
WIP said:
That sounds nice. Maybe it's time for me to give FF another shot. Maybe some of you geeks in the crowd can tell us. Does installing multiple search engines pose any potential problems (using them individually) such as over-use of shared files and stuff like that?
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Although my kids would say I'm a geek, I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous. I'll have to defer. :D
 
Maybe some of you geeks in the crowd can tell us. Does installing multiple
(search engines), I mean browsers, pose any potential problems (using them individually) such as over-use of shared files and stuff like that?
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Looks like I'm even more dangerous than you. Can't even use the proper terminology. What I'm wondering is if installing FF, IE, and Chrome on my PC can cause problems even though I may not be using all three simultaneously. My guess is that it isn't any worse than having all the other application software on my PC but it does seem that with browsers there might be some background things to be watching for?
 
WIP said:
Looks like I'm even more dangerous than you. Can't even use the proper terminology. What I'm wondering is if installing FF, IE, and Chrome on my PC can cause problems even though I may not be using all three simultaneously. My guess is that it isn't any worse than having all the other application software on my PC but it does seem that with browsers there might be some background things to be watching for?
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No, you can install as many internet browsers as you like and there won't be any interference. You just have to choose which one to set as default.

On one of my computers I have Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. :D
 
WIP, I usually have both IE and FF open with different accounts at the same time. I have different email accounts I keep up with.

If you don't believe in Firefox, try this: press your thumb against the text box you're in, click and drag across it, and see what happens... :chin
 
Firefox- best program ever. I have used for years. The guys that made it are such good guys. :)

Personas is good

better privacy
stops flash cookies storing personal info.


colorful tabs
is nice looking

you tube video downloader-

handy sometimes for hd clips on apple tv ( non copyright videos)
you can watch them later.


photobucket uploader
 
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if anyone remembers way back, Netscape (also coded my the Mozilla folks) was the alternative to IE, but it wasn't open source. So, it didn't have add-ons.

Firefox is great! :thumbsup

I used Firefox for a couple years. I really liked it until it began to consume resources so bad it got slow. Slower than IE7. I installed Chrome after that and have been using that ever since until this past week when I installed IE9. Now IE is as fast as Chrome but is more configurable.
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Take into consideration that add-ons are open source and some not-so-well written add-ons can cause memory leaks.

To pinpoint your problem, take an inventory of all you add-ons. Then completely uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. Then, add your add-ons one by one and run with each one for a while.

Eventually you will find the leaky add-on. Find and alternative or just live without it.

The three I use the most are, LittleFox, Adblock Plus and Tab Mix Plus. I like my tabs on the bottom and Tab Mix Plus makes this very easy to do.

There used to be an add-on for this:


abe vigoda status ******
Tracking the living-or-dead status of Abe Vigoda, the actor who was mistakenly declared dead in 1982 and has been living it down ever since.
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It loaded itself in the lower right hand corner of Firefox and kept a real time status of whether he was alive or dead. :lol
 
Vic C. said:
It loaded itself in the lower right hand corner of Firefox and kept a real time status of whether he was alive or dead. :lol
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:toofunny

Oh my gosh! That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while. Tracking the status of Fish right there in the corner of you screen! OUTSTANDING!! :rolling

He looked like death 30 years ago!

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Take into consideration that add-ons are open source and some not-so-well written add-ons can cause memory leaks.

To pinpoint your problem, take an inventory of all you add-ons. Then completely uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. Then, add your add-ons one by one and run with each one for a while.

Eventually you will find the leaky add-on. Find and alternative or just live without it.
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Thanks for the suggestion but I actually had tried this as recommended by Firefox's help files. I went so far as to search for every file and folder on my PC that contained the words Fire and Modz and deleted anything that remotely looked like it was part of Firefox. Well, actually I saved them to a flash drive first, just in case you know. It was slow even out of the box with no add-ons after I re-installed it. I haven't tried the new release yet though. Been thinking about it cause I did like FF.
 
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