gwax's rumblings

I’m still (sur­prise, sur­prise) using Mozilla Firefox as my pri­mary web browser and I con­tinue to rec­om­mend it as the finest browser that I am aware of. A bit over a year ago, I sug­gested a bunch of exten­sions for use with Firefox; today I do the same. In the inter­ven­ing time, many new ver­sions of Firefox have come and gone and my needs in exten­sions have changed. Here’s an updated list:

• BetterSearch — pro­vides thumb­nails in google search results; some­times it’s the lit­tle things
• Bookmark Sync and Sort — allows the syn­chro­niza­tion of book­marks from mul­ti­ple com­put­ers through an ftp or WebDAV http/https store; essen­tial for any­one with more than one computer
• BugMeNot — bypasses many web­site reg­is­tra­tions; I really hate those com­pul­sory registrations
• ChatZilla — IRC client; some­times you just need an IRC client
• Colorful Tabs — col­orizes my tabs; another one of those lit­tle things that some­times it’s
• Download Statusbar — moves down­load sta­tus from the down­load man­ager to the bot­tom of your browser win­dow; the down­load man­ager annoys me
• DownThemAll! — down­load all files from a page; some­times you just need all the files
• ErrorZilla Mod — replaces the failed to load page with a more use­ful one; yeah, more useful
• Execute JS — exe­cute arbi­trary javascript or inject it into pages; some­times you just need a lit­tle more javascript
• Fasterfox — speeds up and opti­mizes page load­ing; faster is bet­ter after all
• Firesomething — rebrands Firefox wrong; Mozilla Taconarwhal never gets old
• Fission — puts a load­ing bar in the address bar; yeah, another one of those lit­tle things
• Greasemonkey — allows for the use of cus­tom user scripts (many of which are freely avail­able); so much cus­tomiza­tion, so great
  • (script) Amazon DRM Notifier — lets you know if a CD on Amazon is infected with DRM; I hate crip­ple­ware and want noth­ing to do with it
  • (script) face­book aim sta­tus icon — tells you if a per­son in face­book is cur­rently online with AIM; mar­gin­ally use­ful infor­ma­tion but I am a fan of infor­ma­tion overload
  • (script) Facebook Flyer Remover — gets rid of ads in Facebook; yeah, I still hate ads
  • (script) Facebook StalkrNET — rela­bels every instance of the name Facebook to StalkrNET; every­one uses it for stalk­ing, why not call it like it is
  • (script) Westlaw Title — puts the title of a found arti­cle in the title bar when using Westlaw; makes my law school research slightly easier
  • (script) Westlaw Window — pre­vents Westlaw from cre­at­ing a whole bunch of unneeded win­dows; makes my law school research less annoying
• Hit-a-Hint — press H or hold Spacebar and all links on the page get a num­ber, type the num­ber to select the link; some­times the mouse just slows you down
• Html Validator — puts an icon show­ing whether a page is valid HTML in the sta­tus bar; I’m a stick­ler for valid HTML and I like to know when a page passes or why it’s fail­ing to validate
• Link Alert — tells me what sort of thing a link is link­ing to; these kinds of things can be good to know something
• NoScript — dis­ables javascript and flash by default, allows whitelists; gets rid of so many ads and so much annoyance
• ShowIP — shows the IP address for and pro­vides infor­ma­tion about a page in the sta­tus bar; mar­gin­ally use­ful infor­ma­tion but I kind of like it
• Tab Mix Plus — improves tab func­tion­al­ity sub­stan­tially; seri­ously, Tab Mix Plus makes tabs so much better

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