Since we seem to talk about Firefox so much around here, I thought I'd share what theme and extensions I have loaded in my copy of Firefox. As you all know from my Make Firefox look like Safari tutorial,
I am using Safarish as my theme and I have Tab X Mac and SessionSaver
loaded. In addition to these two extensions, I also have Yahoo!
Toolbar (which I only make visible when I need to use it; ugly),
SpellBound (the closest thing for Firefox to Safari's integration with
OS X's system wide spell check), Tabbrowser Preferences (to convince all
those stories from Bloglines to open in tabs rather than in new
windows), Dictionary Search (for looking up all those words I don't
know), and Forecast Fox (so I can keep up-to-date on the local weather).I thought it would be fun to find out what themes and extensions all of you TUAW readers out there have loaded to personalize your Firefox. Please share in the comments, and feel free to mention your set up at work that makes that non-Mac box you're tied to all day a little more bearable.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Christian said...
Well, truth be told I use Safari about 90% of the time, with Firefox picking up the slack. Since installing the 10.3.9 update and moving up to Safari 1.3, I think I'll be hitting Safari even less (can't wait to see what Safari 2.0 is like). Pitthelmet, Saft, Acidsearch and LiveDictionary give me a near perfect browsing experience (although strangely enough I have to open FF whenever I want to access my wifi router... Safari just won't do it).
In Firefox, I keep things simple. On my Mac I use Adblock, Bookmarks Synchronizer and Tab X Mac for extensions, and my theme of choice (after dabbling with a few including doing the Safarize thing) is Someorbityellow.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Jakob said...
I use Tab X, Session Saver and BetterSearch, which, interestingly, makes searching Google better/simpler.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
jjvw said...
ForecastFox
Tabbrowser Preferences
Disable Targets For Downloads
DragToTab
Adblock
For a while I had the Terri Schiavo Status Bar
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Et Tu said...
BugMeNot
FLashgot
Calculator
Googlebar
Bandwidth tester
and a lot more already listed...
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
iy536 said...
Tabbrowser Preferences
FLashgot
Gmail Notifier
Adblock
FireFtp
ImageZoom
Dictionary Search
Phoenity Theme
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Felix said...
A friend of mine makes a really neat RSS reader for Firefox:
It is available at www.lektora.com and there is a free version.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
dan said...
Camino...
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Mike said...
Some of the others and flashblock
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6-20-2005 @ 9:04AM
David said...
Switchproxy tool
ieview
Foxytunes
miniT (rag+indicator)
Magpie
SessionSaver
Diable Targets for Downloads
DragToTab
SwitchProxy Tool
Nearby
StumbleUpon
Super DragAndGo
DictionarySearch
BetterSearch
Flat Bookmark Editing
I'm testing a bunch!
:D
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6-26-2005 @ 2:43PM
Sauri said...
Theme: Whitehart 0.1.0
Extensions: Tabbrowser Extensions 1.14, Web Developer 0.9.3, Gmail Notifier 0.4.2, Image Toolbar 0.5, HTML Validator 0.5.6, Flat Bookmark Editing 0.7
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9-01-2005 @ 9:29AM
Dan said...
I can't live without:
googlebar
image zoom
all-in-one gestures
Also, this article got me thinking that I would love an extension that indicates when hyperlinks will open a new window, and I found a fellow classmate who wrote this extension:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=230
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9-09-2005 @ 3:16PM
mabisa said...
foxytunes (and a skin)
single window
image zoom
mouse gestures
dictionary search
adblock
ieview (have used it maybe twice)
linkification
focus last selected tab
add bookmark here
forecast fox
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11-08-2005 @ 12:38PM
Jimmy said...
Theme:
Enigma Machine 0.3.1 (It looks cool)
Extensions:
SecurePassword Generator
FoxyTunes
Tabbrowser Prefs
Tab Clicking Options
DictionarySearch
Disable Targets for Downloads
ForecastFox
FLST
ieview
Sage
MR Tech Local Install
Sort Extensions
ColorZilla
downTHEMall!
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11-22-2005 @ 12:20PM
Tom said...
WebDeveloper Toolkit (Excellent)
MozCC
BugMeNot
GeoURL
Google Pagerank Status
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