The last few years have seen the introduction of the concept of “extensions” in most popular web browsers. While Mozilla natively supports extensions, Opera and Safari come feature-packed and can be easily hacked via config files, and a market has cropped up around the IE engine which supports adding new functionality to your browser. In the interest of sharing a good thing, which are your favorite browser extensions?
Discussion: Which is Your Favorite Browser Extension?
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My extension at the moment (FireFox of course):
FeedView
HTML Validator
Mozilla Archive Format
FireFoxView
Disable Targets For Downloads
Feedview and HTML Validator is absolutely nescessary… I can’t live without them
/dylansmrjones
kristian AT herkild DOT dk
here is my listing..
1. Adblock
2. Flashgot
3. Allinonegestures
4. Greasemonkey
5. Swithproxy
6. Minimize to tray
7. Openhxxp
My favorite one is Aardvark (http://karmatics.com/aardvark/) – a very useful tool for cleaning web pages before printing them.
All del.icio.us extensions such as Foxylicious and “post2delicous” are very cool stuff. GMail notifier is simpler (but useful), GreaseMonkey (c00l!!!) and ForecastFox ruleZ. GooglePreview and LinkPreview are beauty tweaks too. AdBlock is mandatory for surfing the web 🙂
alucardX (ibantxuyn)
found it to be quite useful…
AdBlock
WebDeveloper
All-In-One Gestures
TabMix
FlashBlock
And I have StumbleUpon installed as well, just for those moments when you want to see something random.
Adblock
All-in-one Gestures
Gmail Notifier
QuickNote – pasting in odd bits and bobs from all over don’t know how I survived using gedit!!!
Well that’s about the only thing missing in Opera, so I use Privoxy for that… Although highlight scriptlet (http://nontroppo.org/wiki/UltimateHighlightBookmarklet) is also very useful.
adblock
Ok, I’m gonna list all of my favorites – and more than one I would classify as ‘can’t live without’, but if I *had* to lose all but one, it would be this one.
http://www.passwordmaker.org
Secure, unique passwords for every site, and all of the users I manage, all controlled with one Master Password, all available to me at any time, as long as I have access to a computer with FF and the PM extension installed, or a web connection (for the online version).
As for the others that I consider either *essential or just very useful, even if only occasionally:
*TabMixPlus
*SessionSaver (until TabMixPlus integrates it)
*ImageZoom
*ContextSearch (much lighter than Conquery)
*Deskcut
gMapit (get directions from a phone number)
*IeView
*MDHash Tool
*MinimizeToTray
Mozilla Archive Format
OOK (adds bookmarks to context menu)
OpenBook (better than AddBookmarkHere)
*PackageTrackingExtension (makes tracking UPS, FedEX and USPS packages a breeze)
*PrintIt! (Print/Preview from context menu – really should be native FF code)
*ResizeSearchBox (this really should be native FF code)
Scrapbook
*Signature
Smoothwheel
StatusBarClock
*SyncMarks (better than Bookmarks Synchronizer)
*TargetAlert
*TinyURLCreator
TranslationPanel (very kewl extension)
UserAgentSwitcher (don’t use it nearly as much as I used to, which is a good thing)
Zoomy
the OS underneath.
can’t live without it. admittedly it’s totally specific to deviantart.com, because it won’t help you do anything on any other site, but deviantArt has a huge membership, and it’s tricky to get around the whole site sometimes. looking forward to the v2.0 release, which apparently has a lot of extra goodness to help site navigation, etc,.. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/10222974/
NoScript + Adblock
unfortunately firefox´s popup- blocker isn´t as good, more and more sites adopt to it
.EXE!
PS: Sorry, could not resist…
Really great if you’re anoyed by all those “register now for free before doing anything”-sites. Just click with the right mousebutton into the field for the username, click on bugmenot in the menu and most of the time you get logged in with a shared bugmenot.com account …