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Ooh good extensions. You forgot the Spelling extension which you suggested yourself, earlier.

The PageRank extension, I’ve been waiting forever to have that, I didn’t know it was available now!

The Plain Text Link extension and User Agent Spoofer have also been added to my extension pool.

You forgot the Spelling extension

No I didn’t. Look again Joen. :-P

The Plain Text Link extension is an absolute charm. It’s almost a prerequisite on some news websites.

Doh, it’s cos it’s called “SpellBound”, I don’t know what I was looking for.

I’m enjoying the PageRank extension thoroughly alreadly, although it seems to ignore certain pages …

Nice list, though I would definitly add ieview to it, as every now and then you run across a site by an evil webmaster that only works in IE. ;)

Joen

I’m enjoying the PageRank extension thoroughly alreadly, although it seems to ignore certain pages

Is it ignoring those pages, or do they have a Pagerank of “0”?

SpellBound probably ranks as my favourite too. As I have written before, this should be included with Firefox by default.

Ryan

Hey Ryan, thanks for the pointer. I had never even heard of IEView! I’ve been after something like this for ages - cheers.

Hi,

interesting - I posted a blog entry with essentially the same topic only yesterday…

http://www.gnegg.ch/archives/myfavouritefirefox_extensions.html

Philip

I posted a blog entry with essentially the same topic only yesterday

Cool Philip. Great minds and all that… :-)

The pagerank extension is either not working completely, or definately ignoring some pages. I doesn’t show a page rank of zero, it shows nothing, and on rollover the title says “n/a”.

By the way, I’m also enjoying the Single Window extension — although not entirely user friendly.

The pagerank extension is either not working completely, or definately ignoring some pages. I doesn’t show a page rank of zero, it shows nothing, and on rollover the title says “n/a”.

Strange that. It seems to work fine for me. When there is no Pagerank for a given page the rollover says “0/10” so your “n/a” does seem to indicate that something’s not quite right.

People never seem to mention Session Saver, which has always seemed to me to be easily the best extension you could ever want

I just use it, Single Window, Spellbound and the Web Developer extension. I’ve never felt the need for any others, although I’ll definitely be checking out your list

I’ve installed Session Saver (thanks Lachlan) and I have to agree, this extension is incredibly useful - I’m already wondering how I managed without it.

Good catch Lachlan! :-)

Thanks, mate. That was the first thing I looked for when I changed to Firefox. I always used to end up with so many IE windows open that I had to leave the computer on so I could continue my reading the next day. Oddly enough, now that I have the capacity to keep them all, I finish the day with far fewer tabs open

Thanks for the tip on TargetAlert. It is fantastic

I use Firefox only for testing purposes (i stick with my Opera) so i only have the tabbrowser and developer extensions installed. That’s all i need for the moment.

Further Notes:

Since upgrading to Firefox PR1 I’ve noticed that the following extensions no longer work:

• Google Pagerank
• Tabbrowser Extensions
• TargetAlert (This one’s strange: Firefox’s “Extension Manager” reports that the extension is disabled because it’s not compatible with PR1 - yet the extension is still working!)

Hopefully, it won’t be long before their respective developers have brought these extensions up-to-date.

I have also added three more extensions to my collection. Each of the following are already proving to be extremely useful:

• SpoofStick: Shows the real domain being visited, handy for detecting spoofed (fake) websites
• Nuke Anything: Remove any object from a page’s layout via the context menu
• LiveHTTPHeaders: Monitor HTTP headers (from the browser and the server) along with GET and POST requests - extremely handy for developers.

Further Notes II:

I’ve added a few more valuable extensions to my arsenal…

• Tabbrowser Extensions: Now works with the latest versions of Firefox
• ResizeSearchBox: Adds a resize control to the toolbar which can be used to resize the search box
• Foxylicious: Integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks
• Coralize: Load pages, links and resources through the Coral CDN
• Link Toolbar: Provides easy navigation within sequences of pages via a panel of buttons in the status bar for the first, previous, next, and last page. Also includes buttons to move up a level in the website, or to the top of the website, and a menu of links to further related pages, which can include a table of contents, an index, alternative versions of the current page (e.g. a printable version, or ones in other languages), a site search page, or the page authors’ contact details.
• Slogger: Creates and saves a complete backup and/or log of your browsing history in a highly customizable way

I think Mc Search Preview (http://docs.g-blog.net/code/mozilla_extensions) is better than Google Preview. More features, and it works on del.icio.us, Yahoo and A9, too.

Brilliant Zoe. I’m adding McSearchPreview to my toolkit. Thanks for the tip.