I’m in love with Firefox. I’ve actually been in love with Firefox since 3.0, when it seems like a few of the things that plagued it finally got ironed out. More and more websites are designed not only with Firefox in mind, but sometimes even primarily with Firefox.
Here’s a short list of the Firefox Addons that I use all the time:
- Firebug – it’s a great tool for HTML/CSS/JS development
- Web Developer – a nice toolbar, also useful for development
- Google addons, including the toolbar, and Google notebook add on (although I’m beginning to use Evernote more, because I have a copy of notes both on my desktop and online.)
- Feedly – it’s a really nice tool for making your feeds more readable, and it syncs with google reader, so that when you read something using Feedly, it’s marked as read on Google Reader.
- Fire.fm – I’m in love with both Pandora and Last.fm. Fire.fm provides a nice toolbar – where you can play stations from, etc. It’s a nice integration.
- Delicious Bookmarks – this is the official plug in from Yahoo. It’s sweet – a button to easily tag the pages you are visiting, and a nice sidebar to see your bookmarks from.
- I also use varied greasemonkey scripts to make things more interesting.
There are a gazillion (well a lot) of add-ons for Firefox (and other Mozilla tools as well.) What do you use?
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For development: Firebug is indispensable. Web Developer is handy. Live HTTP Headers is surprisingly useful.
I like Better GMail 2 — modest UI improvements to GMail make it a little more usable.
Screen grab! is helpful for design, sharing and archival (full-length web page screenshots).
I have XDebug helper installed but don’t use it much.
Currently turned off: Pluribo, Read it later, Google Toolbar, Ubiquity
I also use bookmarklets from delicious, google reader and tumblr.
I love del.icio.us. Plus I use Stumble Upon – not sure if that is directly related to Firefox. Thanks for the tools, I hope to check some of them out.
My fave FF add-ons:
Flash Block: Gets rids of those annoying flash ads (Curse you, dancing mortgage lady) and sort of corrects the weird Flash 9 bug if you have too many tabs open.
Ubiquity: too cool to describe. Watch the vid: http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line
CoLT: for faster blogging. Makes it faster to copy either a hyperlink’s text or both the link and the link’s text
I, too, love Firefox – and I often find my time has disappeared as I look through many of the add ons! Its like shopping!
My favs are first, Zotero, which has been indispensable as I finish grad school. It keeps track of all your research (articles, books, films, websites, etc), stores them in an easy to organize place, ridiculously easy to add, and the best thing of all…it will make a bibliography from your list! No more counting commas and colons!!!
Secondly, I like KnowMore. It places small icons next to search results, or a tiny popup bar on webpages, informing you of the social responsibilities (or lack thereof) of major corporations. Knowmore.org
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