Best Firefox extensions/ plugins? - Democratic Underground

Wapsie B

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Sat Sep-10-05 02:27 PM
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Best Firefox extensions/ plugins?

I know awhile back there was a thread about favorite extensions and plugins for Firefox but I lost the link. What does everyone use? Thanks.

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Ratty

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:16 PM
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1. I use Adblock and Flashblock

I love those. I can't stand distracting animated gifs or flash advertisements (try reading the latest news on the Katrina catastrophe with some constant flash ad displaying something goofy from Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo *constantly*). Flashblock is still buggy though and certain sites like Yahoo News and Techreports cause Firefox to crash. The situation has apparently improved with Firfox 1.5 and the latest Flashblock.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org
http://adblock.mozdev.org

Also love greasemonkey. That's only if you're the type that likes to change the HTML of a page any way you like before it displays on your browser, e.g., turning all black backgrounds to white, changing the font to make it easier to read, adding a Delete button to Gmail, practically anything you would like to do to a page. You should see how I've souped up my DU! But there is currently some major security issues with the latest version.

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org

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Fenris

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:19 PM
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2. I dig ForecastFox.

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DS1

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:29 PM
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4. That, and Disable Targets for Downloads

which stops odd things from opening up new browsers, and Gmail notifier is nice.

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AVulgarianHue

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:23 PM
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3. ScrapBook, Image Zoom, Tabrowser Preferences

Edited on Sat Sep-10-05 03:24 PM by AVulgarianHue

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Kellanved

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:37 PM
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5. These

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3967940

;-) Just kidding

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Omphaloskepsis

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:40 PM
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6. I use..

Adblock: Blocks ads <-- This is my favorite thing in the world..

ColorZilla: Gives you the hex and RBG of any color on a webpage

Platypus: Easy tool for making GreaseMonkey scripts.

EditCSS: allows you to edit a pages CSS file in real time.

DictionarySearch: Highlight a word and right-click and you get the option to open the dictionary.com definition of a word in a new tab.

GreaseMonkey: Allows you to change the look and function of webpages.

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