Firefox add-ons.

[trekkiedane]

I think it's a pretty long time since we had one of these, and as I recently had to find all of mine again in order to install them on a completely virgin system I thought I'd share.


I found browsing without these:

BBCode - Nice little tool with BBCode in the right-click-menu
Converter - One click converts all of your basic inferior units on an entire page to something that's understandable (and the other way 'round as well)
Date Picker/Calendar
DictionarySearch
Fast Video Download
Forecastfox
GooglePreview
ImageZoom - Sometimes you just need to watch an image closer up (or further away so it doesn't stretch the page)
PageStyle2Tab - Does what it says, and is very practical if you have multiple browser windows open and they all have multiple tab-lines…
Remove It Permanently - Some things are just THAT repulsive
Resizeable Textarea - Fantastic for use right here on this board
Tab Mix Plus - well, duh!
and
Text-to-Image - If there's a link to an image one click is all it takes for the Fox to show the image instead of the link (sometimes I leave it 'on' so I can see all the images linked to in sigs!)

very hard and laborious.




So what are your most tremendously useful add-ons?

 

[RAMA]

I have used most of those, but I replaced 2 of those with No Squint, look it up.

RAMA

 

[trekkiedane]

^It was actually you -in one of these threads- that introduced me to Resizeable Textarea!

 

[Garrovick]

I like my Firefox just plain. Except for my Ubuntu Firefox pack.

 

[RAMA]

^It was actually you -in one of these threads- that introduced me to Resizeable Textarea!

Yes I love that one!

RAMA

 

[DeafPoet]

StumbleUpon is good times.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Blocksite (for annoying ad sites that leak through)
DownloadHelper (good all round vid downloader)
FlashBlock (I prefer to pick and choose)
AdBlock (before anyone jumps, I pay my Premium here )
WOT (handy when searching, gives an idea of where you're going)
BetterPrivacy (recent addition)

 

[JoeZhang]

anyone got a "no memory leak" add-on?

 

[backstept]

anyone got a "no memory leak" add-on?

go into aboug:config

right click anywhere and select New>Boolean
and enter this:

config.trim_on_minimize

and then set the value to 'true'
now firefox will dump itself from ram when you minimize
I watched it go from like 250k to 3k in the task manager :thumb:

although it doesn't cure the memory hog it just puts it away for a while when you're doing something else

 

[trekkiedane]

*** NEWSFLASH *** NEWSFLASH *** NEWSFLASH ***

Apparently the Converter add-on will be upgraded to not only convert units but also currencies.

http://bogdan.stancescu.ro/personal_projects/converter/2009-03_poll_results_final.pdf