Mozilla Firefox Addons

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

Many people use Firefox now as a browser, but very few make the most of it to enhance it's security and to use the 'Extensions' capability that it has. There are literally hundreds of addons that can do things easier for you compared with M$ IExplorer and that is ignoring the security aspect which is vastly different between the two.

Useful extensions that I use.

Preference Bar (PrefBar) a very useful toolbar for configuring and giving access to hundreds of settings for security etc. Turn on/off Java, javscript, flash, images etc. Clears cache, cookies, history the list is endless. The toolbar can be configured easily to add or remove items. This is a must have !!!!
prefbar.mozdev.org/installation.html


BBCodeXtra for forum users this is very useful and allows easily the abilities of adding all those extra touches to your text without going into Advanced mode. Just right-click on the message you are composing and select the item. It's a lot easier than typing all the BOLD char$ etc and faster than selecting them all from the menu of the forum.
bbcodextra.extenzilla.org/index.php?lang=eng&sez=3


FireFTP A fully featured FTP browser within Firefox. Need I say more.
fireftp.mozdev.org/


Enhanced Bookmark Search, if like me you have about 50000 bookmarks to various articles and sites then this is the easiest way to organize, find duplicates and generally find the one you are looking for, just type a word and it searches for all bookmarks with the word in too making it easy to find the one you are looking for.
home.ripway.com/2004-12/220190/FireFox/ebs.html


Video and Images making life easier.


Image Zoom, does what it says on the tin, zoom images while on the webpage.
imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/

Video Download, The Firefox addon is a little file, which adds a new functionality to your Mozilla Firefox browser that will allow you to download videos from the most popular video sharing sites (Google Video, Youtube, Grinvi) with only one right click and selecting the option Download Video. Many of these site allow you to view but not download videos. Very useful if making video avatars or just to download it.
addons.viloader.net/



Snapper Simple to use but extremely useful addon. One click to activate on any website/forum etc and then click and drag a box shape and it is auto-saved as a PNG file into the folder. Great for grabbing small snippets of tutorials, parts of an image etc, whatever is in the box becomes an image. Far easier than Print Screen, then crop it which is the normal method.
addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2703/


More will be added when I have time.

I find Firefox very helpful too, you can have all your favourite website on tabs at the same time (Brilliant)!

Hope people do follow your good advice.

[Q]

Seems silly to ask.. but I'm new to Firefox.. How do you install these extensions? I've downloaded BBcodeXtra but it doesnt yet show on my extensions list and I dont seem to have a program to run .xpi files.

[Q]

Its OK folks I've got it working Thanks Kev

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

A new and useful extension for Firefox is: Notify

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3149

Many of you know I wrote my own monitoring tool that keeps track of websites/forums for when they change, very useful as a Moderator at the time on many forums.
This Addon does a similar thing to it, not quite so powerful but useful.
Give it a try guys/girls.

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

q said:

Seems silly to ask.. but I'm new to Firefox.. How do you install these extensions? I've downloaded BBcodeXtra but it doesnt yet show on my extensions list and I dont seem to have a program to run .xpi files.

Just to answer this for other people, XPI files if you save them rather than directly install them, then just Open them, and associate with Firefox !
Browser has to be restarted before they are functional.