My favourite Firefox plugins

Posted by Oleksiy Kovyrin under Blog, Links · русский

First of all, I really glad to know, that one of my favorite Firefox plugins – Web Developer Toolbar – became one of the winners in Extended Firefox plugins Contest. Congratulations to Chris Pederick!

By the way, in this post I have decided to describe the list of my favorite plugins, because I think, it may be interesting for some of my readers.

Here is complete list of plugins in my Firefox installation:

  • Live HTTP Headers – the best Firefox plugin for web server admins and web developers! Allows viewing HTTP headers of current page and shows them while page is loading.
  • Web Developer – great plugin for web developers with many different options like HTML and CSS validation, control of JavaScript execution, HTML outline, cookies control and many other options.
  • HTML Validator – really good Tidy-based plugin for run-time HTML code validation (some times can help to find annoying errors in HTML-code).
  • Google Toolbar for Firefox – very useful toolbar from Google. Consists of search request field, pagerank monitor, spell checking button, and list of last searched keywords.
  • Session Saver – saves all of the opened windows and tabs between Firefox restarts (like Opera does).
  • Search Status – shows current page/site rank in Google and Alexa.
  • deli.cio.us – plugin to keep, share and discover my favorite bookmark with deli.cio.us service.
  • Adblock – plugin to filter ads from webpages.
  • FlashGot – I’m using this plugin to integrate Firefox with my favorite download manager Download Master.
  • FasterFox – performance tweaks and page download timer for Firefox.
  • IE Tab – plugin for integration of the Internet Explorer into the Firefox tabs.
  • PDF Download – very interesting plugin, that allows user to select preferred action for PDF files (view in browser, download, save to disk).
  • Clear Cache Button – very useful plugin for purging Firefox cache by one toolbar button click.
  • Disable Targets for Downloads – small plugin, that prevents download links opening new blank windows.
  • Last Tab – Allows tab navigation in a most recently used manner (after closing some tab, selects last opened tab, not closest on tab bar).
  • New Tab Button on Tab Bar – small plugin adds “New Tab” button to the tab bar and allows to browse without keyboard using.
  • Customize Google – adds some useful elements to Google search results (such as links to results in another search engines).
  • Omea Connector – adds some useful actions to Firefox, allowing to integrate it with my favorite RSS-aggregator Omea Reader.

Related posts:

  1. Fiddler – HTTP Debugging Proxy
  2. Board Reader – Search engine specialized on forums search
  3. New Job, New Country, New Life!
  4. The Superbrowser – Firefox with 100 extensions installed
  5. Google Educational Seminars (techtalks) and Saving Google Video to Local Disk

10 Responses to this entry

Scoundrel says:

Я читаю RSS через отдельную программу: Omea Reader. А насчет плагина к ФФ, то там Sage давно является лидером.

Kpumuk says:

Hi, Alex

I have a question about Firefox plugins. On my work machine I have several plugins installed, all configured as I like. How can I install Firefox on my home computer with all these plugins, my current theme and all settings without one-by-one copy of all these issues?

Thanks

Scoundrel says:

As the most simple solution, you can use Portable Firefox to be able to run your firefox from different locations. But afaik there is some software to save your firefox settings and plugins to single .xpi file to export them to any machine. I will try to find this software and will describe it in one of my future posts.

Scoundrel says:

Kpumuk: I’ve decided to reply to you here. There is very useful firefox extension to silently install firefox extensions to your home machine. Its name is Mass Installer.

Another extension that can be useful in your situation is MR Tech’s Local Install.

The primary goal of this extension is to provide the tools needed to install and manage extensions and themes locally. To do this the extension provides multi-extension installation support, hacking capabilities to the Extension/Theme manager windows, features to find and troubleshoot Extensions/Themes Build, GUID and Profile information.

MixFun says:

Вместо стандартног Google Pagerank я бы посоветовал для Google Pagerank Status (У меня Firefox, не знаю есть ли для ie)Гораздо удобнее. Снизу слева в статусной строке появляется значение pagerank. Не отвлекает, не занимает много места.

Serberg says:

Хорошая подборка, если бы и ссылочки на закачку были, цены бы небыло этой теме

Ela says:

Вопрос. Существует ли плагин, позволяющий не отображаться в статистике посещений на различных сайтах? Если да, то какой, подскажите, будте добры. Возникла необходимость в небольшой конспирации. :) Заранее спасибо!