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Post by katz on Aug 6, 2009 14:37:07 GMT -5
Even though I've been using Firefox for nearly a year, I never tampered around much with add-ons except for ad blockers. Now I'm really getting into them. Sure, there's a lot of crap, but some are honestly helpful.
Wired-Marker is my favourite at the moment. It allowed you to hi-light web pages. You heard that right. Select the text, click a button, leave the website, and provided you don't clear your cookies it's still hi-lighted the next time you come back. Invaluable for a student.
I'm also loving Clip to OneNote. OneNote is a great program for anyone who's a neat freak like me and wants all their stuff in one place, and it's just plain convienient to be able to send a section of a web page to OneNote in a click.
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Post by Vene on Aug 6, 2009 15:47:13 GMT -5
I have a few to recommend. 1) NoScriptIf you have firefox and don't have this, you are doing something horribly wrong. It removes adds, annoying flash images, annoying music, and possibly dangerous scripts. The best part, even after disabling them, you are able to make sure that certain ones are trusted. 2) IE TabNot as good, but it allows you to open internet explorer in a single tab. Not greatly useful, but there are a handful of sites out there where you need IE. 3) LinkificationVery simple, it makes links into links even without the hyperlink tags. Like, I can type www.google.com and it will be a link for me. 4) ScreengrabIt lets me take a screenshot of the page I'm looking at at the time. Much easier than using the prtsc key and I can take a whole page, even if it's bigger than what I'm viewing. |
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Post by MaybeNever on Aug 6, 2009 16:45:46 GMT -5
What's the one that delivers a piping hot serving of pornography, made to order, to your face? Is that that Internet one?
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Post by antichrist on Aug 6, 2009 17:00:42 GMT -5
Xmarks, makes your bookmarks available on all your computers. You just sync with the database.
Canadian Dictionary (IE always changes back to US on me)
I quit using NoScript because it constantly pissed me off.
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Post by The Lazy One on Aug 6, 2009 17:02:49 GMT -5
I like Colorful Tabs. It helps me color-code things, especially when I'm browsing... certain corners of the Internet at the same time as doing homework. If someone happens to come bother me, they won't be able to read the tab that's not school related if it's a dark color. That, and they're pretty.  |
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Post by wmdkitty on Aug 6, 2009 17:26:24 GMT -5
AdBlocker, hands down.
And I make good use of the one that allows you to just upload to Photobucket with two clicks of the mouse.
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Post by Oriet on Aug 6, 2009 17:59:56 GMT -5
I love:
NoScript
AdBlock/AdBlockPlus
ColorfulTabs
Download Statusbar (downloads appear at the bottom of the window instead of a pop-up window)
Session Manager (remembers the tabs and windows you have open should it crash or need a restart)
FoxClocks (good fro keeping track of what time it is for friends in different timezones)
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Post by Sigmaleph on Aug 6, 2009 23:28:24 GMT -5
TryAgain is invaluable if your connection has the annoying habit of dropping for no good reason, which mine unfortunately has. Whenever you get a "could not find server" or similar screen, it automatically reloads the page after a few seconds.
Other than that, adBlock, NoScript, and a bunch of dictionaries, which were already mentioned.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 7, 2009 2:41:44 GMT -5
Currently only running Ad-Block Plus, but I've used a few others before, though their names are lost to me. There was one that allowed you to check for errors in a website (useful for purposes both legitimate and dubious), I think I had one that allowed the "View Source" option even if the site disabled it, and a few others.
Good Cait, I'll have to look some of those up again.
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Post by Moon Wolfhowl on Aug 7, 2009 10:19:49 GMT -5
I use DownloadHelper like mad. Mostly for getting stuff off of Youtube and other video sites, but also i use ProjectPlaylist.com so...yeah. Yar and such.  I'm going to have to get that screenshot thing though. sounds cool. and the clocks too, because I've got some people around the world that i can't remember what time it is there when I might want to talk to them. Sometimes I forget it's really fucking late in Europe when it's evening over here... |
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Post by Dan on Aug 8, 2009 3:46:00 GMT -5
... one that allowed the "View Source" option even if the site disabled it, ... This is new to me. Sites that (attempt to) disable View Source? How would that work? I have Greasemonkey, Live HTTP Headers and User Agent Switcher, but I don't actually use any of them. I also have an ad-blocking proxy, Privoxy, which works for all browsers and any other software that embeds MSIE (such as Yahoo Messanger) or borrows its proxy settings. |
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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 8, 2009 5:32:44 GMT -5
I don't know, but there were a few sites I was "interested in," so to speak, that wouldn't let me see their guts.
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Post by Dr. Waldorf X on Aug 9, 2009 0:28:13 GMT -5
I've got Adblock Plus(already mentioned), Chatzilla (the IRC client I use to access the FSTDT IRC) and FoxyTunes (lets me control media players without switching windows.)
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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 9, 2009 22:13:48 GMT -5
Huh...I got keys on my keyboard for that. Only thing they won't let me do is switch playlists. Hey, you can't have everything, I suppose.
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Post by katz on Aug 11, 2009 8:53:50 GMT -5
I'd like DownloadHelper a lot more if I could get the flash files to play properly. Even after I convert them, I find I can't skip ahead or back without the whole video restarting.
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