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Mozilla Firefox Helpful Tools
Special Thanks to - hobo218 who originally posted Helpful Firefox Tools

Miz 3/23/2011 said:
With the release of Firefox 4, this Thread will be undergoing some changes so that it is more community involved and of course has the some of the more cooler addons that have been added over time.

So stay tuned for updates.

This is a list of helpful extensions used for the Firefox browser. All addons here were ether recommended by Mozilla Firefox's site or Recommended by our own Members.

Get the latest Firefox version at the top right corner of the post or Here (FireFox 3 Download)

What are Addons?
Add-ons are programs that are able to be downloaded and will be put into Firefox. These programs extend Firefox giving you personalized browser. Addo

How do you install Addons?
Read the support Tutorial Here

All Addons and extensions can be found Here (Mozilla.org)

Scroll down to find more useful information and addon comments from other users. Also Feel free to post any other extensions that you have found useful, or any other tweaks that you have used to increase the performance or usability of your Firefox browser. Please avoid posting comments without any of the above to keep this thread clean. Thanks.

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Recommended Addons

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Flashblock [Recommended by Mozilla]
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on...

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NoScript [Recommended by Mozilla]
The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

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Adblock Plus [Recommended by Mozilla]
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

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StumbleUpon [Recommended by Mozilla]
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

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Personas [Recommended by Mozilla]
Personas are lightweight, easy-to-install and easy-to-change "skins" for your Firefox web browser.

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Forecast Fox [Recommended by Mozilla]
Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any tool bar or status bar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.

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FoxyTunes [Recommended by Mozilla]
FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

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BetterPrivacy
Better Privacy serves to protect against undeletable long-term cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy 'Flash' and 'DOM Storage' -cookies are most critical.

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FoxClocks [Recommended by Mozilla]
FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar. Choose from a set of useful time formats or create your own - custom formats are easy to create and very flexible.

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IE Tab [Recommended by Mozilla]
IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

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FireGestures [Recommended by Mozilla]
A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.

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ChatZilla [Recommended by Mozilla]
A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

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Fire FTP [Recommended by Mozilla]
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

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Flagfox [Recommended by Mozilla]
Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website's server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.

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Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer [Recommended by Mozilla]
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you're away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.

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ImageTweak [Recommended by Mozilla]
ImageTweak started as a small enhancement to allow viewing images in an acceptable way, but has now become an image viewer with dragging and zooming.

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Mini Map Sidebar [Recommended by Mozilla]
The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel and get larger scale maps with the Map Tab. Import/Export KML, GPX, minimap xml file, CSV (export only). View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, local search, Google, Yahoo and Live Local directions, view in google earth, tagzania, platial, geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use. Geodiscovery reveals geoURLís or geotags as you browse, with microformat support available in Firefox 3 (Adr and Geo).

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Read It Later [Recommended by Mozilla]
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

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TimeTracker [Recommended by Mozilla]
Do you spend too much time on Firefox? Do you open tabs faster than you can close them? Cannot get things done? Keep track of how much you browse with TimeTracker.

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DownThemAll! [Recommended by Mozilla]
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

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Fast Dial [Recommended by Mozilla]
Fast Dial replaces blank tabs with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites.

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FoxyProxy [Recommended by Mozilla]
FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's limited proxying capabilities. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc.

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TwitterFox [Recommended by Mozilla]
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' statuses of Twitter.

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PDF Download [Recommended by Mozilla]
Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control of them and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.

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FoxSaver [Recommended by Mozilla]
Turns Idle FireFox into a ScreenSaver and Photo Viewer! Nice non-offensive pictures updated daily! Or your own pictures. FullScreen. Works great on Linux or dual monitors! Resouce Efficient! Support Media RSS. Recommend your own favorite pictures!

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WebMail Notifier [Recommended by Mozilla]
WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails...
Supports: gmail, yahoo, hotmail, daum, naver, empas, nate and more

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Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.

Gspace
This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gmail account looks like a FTP host and you can upload and download your files. After you install, you get an option called "GSpace" in your "tools" menu clicking on which opens the window for transfer of files/folders

Fasterfox [Experimental]
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. A popup blocker for pop ups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.

Download StatusBar
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

Facebook Toolbar
Integrate your Facebook life into your browser...


McAfee SiteAdvisor Add-On for Firefox
When you search with Google, Yahoo!, or Live Search, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings appear next to search results.As you browse, a small button on your browser toolbar changes color based on SiteAdvisor's safety results. Menu options on SiteAdvisor's toolbar let you customize SiteAdvisor or see a site's detailed test results. Detailed test results for every site are just one click away. [See Post 5]

Meebo firefox extension
Instant messaging across all the major IM networks is now built right into your browser. The Meebo Firefox Extension gives you a sidebar with a smart buddylist and visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag internet links and images directly to your buddies, all while surfing the Web!

ColorfulTabs [Recommended by Mozilla]
The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Flock version available at http://binaryturf.com/software/colorfultabs-for-flock/. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Cool Previews
CoolPreviews (formerly known as Cooliris Previews) gives you the power to browse and share Web links and rich media faster. Just mouse over any link, and the preview window immediately appears to show you the content. To email it, just click.

Perapera-kun: Japanese Popup Translator 1.0
Popup Japanese Translator. Modded from Rikai-chan and uses the EDICT dictionary. Allows you to see the pronunciation and English meaning of Japanese words when you place your mouse over them.

Video DownloadHelper
Great little addon here. Basically just goto a site like YouTube and play a video. Then right click on some empty space on the page and you'll see a DownloadHelper menu. Scroll to it and it'll list the video your watching, and you can download it. This works on a variety of other sites too.

EditCSS
This a useful addon which let's you see the CSS of the page you are viewing and you can edit the CSS and see what the page looks like with your modification/s. (Thanks to UndeadDragon)

CSSViewer
If you want to know some useful CSS tricks, then this addon is useful. You first activate it in the Tools menu and then if you hover over an element on a webpage it will display it's elements. For example, if I hover over the quick reply box, it displays: font-family, font-size, line-height, verticle-align, background-color, background-position, height, width, border, margin, display and cursor. (Thanks to UndeadDragon)

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FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers. (Thanks to CaptDeath)

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Pencil
Pencil is a Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching (Thanks to CaptDeath)

Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. (Thanks to ReVolver)

Stylish
Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don't even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately. (Thanks to ReVolver) - See More in Post #11

Greasemonkey
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. (Thanks to ReVolver) - See More in Post #11

AutoPager
This addon will load up the next page on a huge variety of sites. It is also programmable on sites it doesn't detect it on, for those who know what they're doing.

Reminder
Feel free to post any other extensions that you have found useful, or any other tweaks that you have used to increase the performance or usability of your Firefox browser. Please avoid posting comments without any of the above to keep this thread clean. Thanks.
 

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Latest Version of FireFox
Website: http://www.firefox.com/
Software Provider: Mozilla Foundation
Current Version: 3.6.8
Operating Systems: Windows: 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (Mac: Mac OS 9, X or later) (Linux)
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FireFox 2.0
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Originally posted by SFilip

Firefox Speed Burst (Maybe Outdated)
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll
down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really
speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This
means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

The following is written for Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 [Outdated]
The tweaks you'll want to make right now

Now that you have the basics, we get to the good part: making changes to improve Firefox's performance and capabilities.

Fix a memory leak in Firefox 1.0
Firefox is supposed to dynamically release memory from its RAM cache to other Windows applications as needed. Unfortunately, Firefox 1.0 seems to consume more memory than it should, which hurts performance, when set to the default of 51200 KB (51 MB).

To solve this, Firefox power users recommend limiting the memory cache using the Configuration Console. This frees up memory for other apps, speeding up everything to a greater or a lesser extent, depending on your machine and the applications you run. Here's how the trick works:

Step 1. Type about:config into Firefox's Address Bar and press Enter.

Step 2. Right-click any row, then click New, Integer. Type or paste the following preference name into the dialog box that appears (this is a hidden preference that doesn't exist in the Configuration Console until you create it):

browser.cache.memory.capacity

Step 3. Click OK, then enter the following integer number into the next dialog box, representing 16 MB of RAM for the cache:

16000

Step 4. Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart it.

For a lengthy discussion of this option, see Mozillazine's forum topic 172041.

Move the disk cache to a faster or larger location
Many Windows users like to locate their disk cache files on a separate hard drive from Windows. This can improve the performance of Windows or whatever program is using the cache, or it can free up space on a primary partition. (The disk cache should not be confused with the RAM cache described above.)

To move Firefox's disk cache, use about:config to create a new preference. (This is another hidden preference that doesn't appear until you create it.)

Type browser.cache.disk.parent_directory into the dialog box that appears, then click OK. In the Value dialog box, enter c:\folder, providing the folder name in which you wish the file to be located.

This and other networking and cache settings are sparely documented by a Firefox developer called Ben C. on his NetPrefs page.

Force frames to be resizable on Web pages
If you visit Web sites that divide their pages into rectangular frames, but some of the frames aren't wide enough for you to see all of the words, you can tell Firefox to put borders around all frames so they're resizable.

To do this, use about:config to change layout.frames.force_resizability from "false" to "true."

Other preference settings
There are literally hundreds of possible preference settings that are accessible via about:config. Unfortunately, there's nothing in the help text that comes with Firefox 1.0 on these settings. A variety of user sites have sprung up to expound on these preferences, but their coverage is spotty and not completely trustworthy.

The best all-around explanation of most Firefox settings has been posted by a developer called GuruJ on his Documented Preferences page. This page also links to a Firefox extension named Preferential, currently in version 0.6.1a. This utility adds an Advanced Preferences item to Firefox's Edit menu, giving you a user interface to a vast array of settings that otherwise would require hand-editing.

Even the "Documented Preferences" page has many holes, which I hope the Mozilla Foundation will quickly and publicly fill in. For example, GuruJ's page describes many settings with a question mark, indicating that the true meaning of an item is unclear. This includes the "frames force resizability" setting I described above. (I had to determine the official stand on this option by contacting Ben Goodger, the foundation's lead Firefox engineer.)

Tweaks for the ultimate in performance

There are several settings and options that can make Firefox run as a much faster browser. You should test these techniques before you roll them out to, say, a thousand workstations in your company.

Speeding up the maximizing of Firefox
By default, when you minimize Firefox, it gives back to Windows most of the RAM the browser was using. It sometimes can take several seconds for the browser window to become fully loaded when you restore the window to its original size. This is one of those "version 1.0" things, in my opinion, that will become more streamlined in future bump revs of the program.

Fortunately, there's a hidden setting that can accomplish the restoration of Firefox windows much more quickly:

Step 1. Use about:config to create a new, Boolean value. Type or paste the following string into the dialog box that appears:

config.trim_on_minimize

Step 2. Click OK to close the dialog box. Change the value from "true" to "false" and restart Firefox.

This doesn't piggishly retain all of the RAM that Firefox has claimed. If Windows needs more RAM to devote to another application, Windows can take it. What the setting does is prevent Firefox from giving up most of its RAM until the memory is actually required elsewhere.

Setting this item to "false" may noticeably slow down other applications while Firefox is minimized, if your PC has less than 256 MB of RAM. If so, change the setting back to "true."

There's an extremely long discussion about the development of this trick, going back to March 2004 (and continuing up through today), in Bugzilla bug report #76831. If you're determined to delve into this, I'd recommend starting with comment 329.

Speeding up Firefox on Windows XP
You can speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows XP by adding it to the programs that XP "prefetches."

To do this, right-click the Start Menu item for Firefox, or any icon you use to start Firefox, and open the Properties dialog box. Add a space plus /Prefetch:1 to the command line and click OK. The resulting line might look as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

A detailed explanation of XP's prefetch feature is provided by TechRepublic.

Use a "Moox" build that's customized for your CPU
A developer who goes by the name of Moox has compiled the Firefox code into separate executables, optimized for the instruction sets of different CPUs. This provides the biggest performance boost that I've seen (and also consider to be reliable). The developer's PDF white paper on the topic shows reductions of as much as 30% in the time required for Firefox to perform various tasks.

At this writing, there are three separate builds: one for Pentium 4 and AMD Opteron (and other CPUs), one for Pentium 3 and AMD Athlon MP, and one for Pentium 2 and AMD Athlon. The builds are free, of course.

To download the builds, see Moox's Mozilla page.

The big kahuna: fast rendering of Web pages

The most sought-after performance improvements in any browser will always involve how quickly it downloads and renders Web pages. The good news is that Firefox (which is already pretty fast in its default configuration) includes numerous about:config settings that can improve the downloading and display of content. The bad news is that the optimum settings will differ from machine to machine, and there's no consensus on what they should be.

After extensive research, I haven't found a utility or even a well-tested explanation that can guarantee the optimum settings for any particular Windows scenario (Windows 2000 vs. XP, DSL vs. T1, etc.).

There are scores of Web sites that speculate on configuration settings that are said to speed up the browsing experience in Firefox. But these sites largely don't show that they've done adequate testing of the alternatives, much less explain how such tests might have been conducted.

One long discussion post, by a German power user who goes by the name of Laszlo, lists in Mozillazine numerous settings in the content, network, and nglayout sections of the Configuration Console. His post is followed by literally hundreds of comments on various tweaks. I don't feel there's a solid answer here yet.

Another stab at this issue has been undertaken by a poster who goes by the name of Achilles. He proposes four different configuration suites in his Firefox Tweak Guide, depending upon whether you have a slower or faster PC and a slower or faster Internet connection. Again, no testing details or benchmark figures are provided.

At this point, the optimum settings for Web browsing under various configurations must be considered a subject for further study. Firefox is plenty speedy as it is. My recommendation? Download Firefox and enjoy it with the improvements I've described above. I'll give you an update when something truly definitive comes out about this.
 

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Originally posted by UndeadDragon

I found this tool and I think it's a very useful security tool for Firefox.

It's the McAfee SiteAdvisor. Basically, it tells you if the site you are visiting is a safe site and if it has any downloads which contain malicious software and even if the site links to another site which contains bad content.

It even tells you if the site is safe before you even visit it, when you search through google:
sa_example_2.gif
. A red cross means a bad site and a green tick means that the site is safe.

Whilst you are on a site, you can see if it is safe or not in the bottom right corner, with either a green bar for a safe site, or a red bar for an unsafe site:
sa_example_1a_ff.gif
.

Here is a link to the site: LINK.

I recommend this program to avoid unwanted sites.

(Pictures from the McAfee site)
 

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Download Helper

Great little addon here. Basically just goto a site like YouTube and play a video. Then right click on some empty space on the page and you'll see a DownloadHelper menu. Scroll to it and it'll list the video your watching, and you can download it. This works on a variety of other sites too.
Here is the site's manual.
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I have found a couple of useful Addons for webmasters.

1) EditCSS

This a useful addon which let's you see the CSS of the page you are viewing and you can edit the CSS and see what the page looks like with your modification/s.

2) CSSViewer

If you want to know some useful CSS tricks, then this addon is useful. You first activate it in the Tools menu and then if you hover over an element on a webpage it will display it's elements. For example, if I hover over the quick reply box, it displays: font-family, font-size, line-height, verticle-align, background-color, background-position, height, width, border, margin, display and cursor.
 

Darthfett

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Cool theme I found and am using:

Chrome Package

A few problems with the "Topper" add-on though (I have removed it):
  • When maximized, window is still resizeable
  • Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons hard to push
  • When maximized, it covers the startbar (even if 'always on top' is enabled) in Windows
  • When maximized, tabs are not all the way at the top, as in Chrome

However, I still love the way the tabs look, and the pale blue title bar that comes from just the 'Chromifox Adapted' part of it.
 

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I have found a couple of useful Addons for webmasters.

1) EditCSS

This a useful addon which let's you see the CSS of the page you are viewing and you can edit the CSS and see what the page looks like with your modification/s.

2) CSSViewer

If you want to know some useful CSS tricks, then this addon is useful. You first activate it in the Tools menu and then if you hover over an element on a webpage it will display it's elements. For example, if I hover over the quick reply box, it displays: font-family, font-size, line-height, verticle-align, background-color, background-position, height, width, border, margin, display and cursor.
This addon should also be a must for webmaster, It's my personal favorite addon for Firefox.

http://getfirebug.com/


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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 -- Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 -- Stylish

It is also a great addon if you like to customize websites to your own liking.

Here are some great examples: http://mashable.com/2007/06/05/firefox-stylish/?cp=all
 

Miz

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I have found a couple of useful Addons for webmasters.

1) EditCSS

This a useful addon which let's you see the CSS of the page you are viewing and you can edit the CSS and see what the page looks like with your modification/s.

2) CSSViewer

If you want to know some useful CSS tricks, then this addon is useful. You first activate it in the Tools menu and then if you hover over an element on a webpage it will display it's elements. For example, if I hover over the quick reply box, it displays: font-family, font-size, line-height, verticle-align, background-color, background-position, height, width, border, margin, display and cursor.

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heres a cool one for peopel who give tuts and what not for web sites
these work with FF 3
FireShot
also a cool one
Pencil

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Cool theme I found and am using:

Chrome Package

A few problems with the "Topper" add-on though (I have removed it):
  • When maximized, window is still resizeable
  • Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons hard to push
  • When maximized, it covers the startbar (even if 'always on top' is enabled) in Windows
  • When maximized, tabs are not all the way at the top, as in Chrome

However, I still love the way the tabs look, and the pale blue title bar that comes from just the 'Chromifox Adapted' part of it.

Added, Put I placed it under [Experimental] as that is what Mozilla classifies it as...

This addon should also be a must for webmaster, It's my personal favorite addon for Firefox.

http://getfirebug.com/


---------------------------------------

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 -- Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 -- Stylish

It is also a great addon if you like to customize websites to your own liking.

Here are some great examples: http://mashable.com/2007/06/05/firefox-stylish/?cp=all

Added :D
 

CaptDeath

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By Mozilla For Mozilla
what it allows you to do is switch your FF UI on the fly w/o reboot
 

Prometheus

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AutoPager
This addon will load up the next page on a huge variety of sites. It is also programmable on sites it doesn't detect it on, for those who know what they're doing.
 

Fun_

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I already have the latest version of Firefox, v3.5 Beta 4, From Mozilla, and it is awesome. :)
 

Miz

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I already have the latest version of Firefox, v3.5 Beta 4, From Mozilla, and it is awesome. :)

You mean the version after 3.5.1? Correct and not 3.5.0 that has a security flaw. (Which is why it isn't up for download on the old versions list.)

Thanks for accidentally reminding me to update this and remember to keep posting addons and themes. Along with any tips and tricks or other posts you might have. :thup:
 

Dave312

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You should add flashgot to the list. It is downloader manager integration software which allows you to save anything you are viewing on your current page onto your harddisk, including streaming videos.
 

tooltiperror

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You need Colorzilla, very useful for Web Designers. Adds an eye dropper, color picker, and palette tool to firefox.
 
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