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Tuesday 12 August 2008, 3:08 PM
My favorite Firefox Add-ons
Yes, its that time again, a simple list of things what I like. For my next post, it will be Cakes Of The World. For today though, it is Firefox Addons. These are the ones I use the most in my day-to-day work. Ie the mosat useful ones:
Web developer Add-ons
ColorZilla
Fangs
Firebug
Html Validator
IE View Lite
Nuke Anything Enhanced
Web Developer
• PixelPerfect Firebug add-on
• Page Speed Firebug add-on
• WAVE accessibility
General Add-ons
Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper
Copy Plain Text
CustomizeGoogle
Delicious Bookmarks (classic mode)
DownThemAll!
Duplicate Tab
Flashblock
Xmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Personal Menu
QuickNote
QuickRestart
SiteLauncher
Screengrab!
Search Engines
Google Maps UK
Google Images
Wikipedia (Eng)
The Free Dictionary
Amazon UK
Ebay UK
Flickr Tags
Youtube
Delicious
I have used FEBE and CLEO in the past to make one όber Add-on. But to be honest, its so quick to use the improved Add-on feature in Firefox 3 (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons) that theres not much point any more.
The quickest way I've found to install the extensions is to control+click the links above to open them in new tabs. Also, here's a link to my favourite Old Skool winestripe theme.
PreviousComments on this post
Thanks for the list Jake, very useful. Several there that I didn't know, or hadn't tried.
I'm REALLY looking forward to the cake list... will you be sending out free samples to test? I would be happy to help with evaluations...
jw
Glad to be of service, these are my most tried and tested add-ons. I have others that didn't make the grade purely because I don't use them any more (View Formatted Source, CSS Viewer etc). Firebug really is the bee's knees, I use it more even than Web Developer toolbar. Oh, and QuickNote is probably the single most useful general purpose add-on.
If you want to have cake and eat it, alas you'll have to buy your own ;)
