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Tuesday 12 August 2008, 3:08 PM

My favorite Firefox Add-ons

Posted by Jake Rayson

Yes, it’s 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 most useful ones:

Web developer Add-ons

• ColorZilla • Fangs • Firebug • Html Validator • IE View Lite • Nuke Anything Enhanced • Web Developer

General Add-ons

• Adblock • Adblock Filterset.G Updater • CustomizeGoogle • Delicious Bookmarks (classic mode) • DownThemAll! • Duplicate Tab • Flashblock • Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer • QuickNote • QuickRestart • 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, it’s so quick to use the improved Add-on feature in Firefox 3 (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons) that there’s 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.


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J.A. Watson

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

Posted by J.A. Watson on Aug 13, 2008 10:56 AM

Jake Rayson

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 ;)

Posted by Jake Rayson on Aug 13, 2008 12:50 PM

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