gwax's rumblings

As I expect is rather clear, I use Mozilla Firefox as my pri­mary web browser. Now, Firefox, has a pretty solid sys­tem for adding exten­sions and there are rather a few that I use and like, so I thought that I’d let you folks in on my per­sonal pref­er­ences in Firefox Extensions. I’ve orga­nized them in the seem­ingly non­sen­si­cal way that my Firefox’s exten­sion man­ager has, so you’ll have to wade through the minor ones as well as the really keen ones.

• BetterSearch — gives me thumb­nails in search pages, kind of nice though not par­tic­u­larly useful
• mozcc — puts cre­ative com­mons license infor­ma­tion in my sta­tus­bar, not impor­tant but kind of nice to know sometimes
• Popup ALT Attribute — gives me a lit­tle popup bub­ble of the ALT text when I mouse over an image; really nice to have sometimes
• IE Tab — allows inter­net explorer to be embed­ded in a tab; this is unbe­liev­ably keen some­times and means I don’t ever have to open inter­net explorer
• Live HTTP Headers — allows me to watch and mod­ify head­ers; lets me pull some inter­est­ing chi­canery sometimes
• Fasterfox — uses some hacks to make Firefox load pages faster
• Dict — select a word and look it up with dict
• Extended Statusbar — Adds a lot of infor­ma­tion about page load­ing to my sta­tus­bar, another keen but not so func­tional extension
• Tab Mix Plus — adds mul­ti­ple tab rows, adds tab reorder­ing, adds mid­dle click to close, adds a bunch of other stuff; this exten­sion enhances tabbed brows­ing by an order of mag­ni­tude and I con­sider it com­pletely indispensible
• Firesomething — changes the browser’s name in the title­bar; I love this exten­sion and really hope they hurry up and make it com­pat­i­ble with Firefox 1.5 soon
• Disable Targets For Downloads — pre­vents empty win­dows from being opened for down­loads, which gets rid of a mod­er­ate annoyance
• Viamatic foX­pose — adds a but­ton to your sta­tus­bar, which when pressed, gives you a win­dow with thumb­nails of all your tabs; really keen
• Flashblock — replaces flash with a place­holder that you can click to enable indi­vid­ual flash ele­ments; indis­pen­si­ble if, like me, you hate 95% of flash but still want to use it occasionally
• Open Source in Tab — in case it wasn’t appar­ent yet, I like tabbed brows­ing, this lets me view page sources with­out hav­ing to deal with a new window
• ChatZilla — an IRC client built on Firefox; it’s a clean and decent client, serves my needs (I’ve been IRCing a bit of late)
• FireFTP — an FTP client built on Firefox; gives me more FTP func­tion­al­ity when I need it
• Download Statusbar — puts the down­load man­ager in my sta­tus­bar (I use the mini configuration)

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