Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Firefox Extensions Rock the Web World

Melissa Ray has converted to Firefox. She writes:
Most everyone I know - including myself - is switching from IE to Firefox.
She's found faith now due to her discovery of SpellBound, a spell-checker extension, and the essential Google power-user tool, GoogleBar.

I have my own favourite extensions for Firefox.
  • Digger - adds a right-click menu to the address bar's Go button that allows you to jump straight to a higher directory of that site, or the ftp site equivalent. Brilliant.
  • Paste And Go - can't live without this. Right-click context menu in the location bar allows you to paste a URL and load it automatically, no Go button or Enter key required.
  • Tabbrowser Preferences - essential for tabbed browsing, enables you to customises when tabs/windows open, what the open with, where they open... get it.
  • ConQuery - brilliant, adds a right-click "Query To..." menu that opens out to a list of all search engines you've added to the Search Bar, allowing automatic searching of your highlighted word at that engine.
  • Web Developer - essential tools for coders and designers
  • Plain Text Links - open links that haven't linkified
  • ChromEdit - edit user preference files
  • SuperScroll - smooth scrolling
  • IE View - check a page in IE
  • Cookie Culler - protect selected cookies from deletion
  • MiniT - drag tabs around
  • UndoCloseTab - undo the last three closed tabs
Which extensions are your favourites?

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