[admin (no pm's please)]

Post whatever Firefox extension is rocking your surfing world at the moment

I'll kick of with "Quick Proxy" an icon that sits in the status bar and allows you to toggle your proxy server on and off. Surfing with a proxy is faster, but with my ISP certain sites just don't work. I can't even see www.phpbbhacks.com But now with a single click I can get places and switch back to faster surfing with another click.

[St0rm[TitE]]

ive got foxy tunes, footiefox (which gives live football scores), forecastfox (local weather forecast) and a great extension called 'stumble!'.

[St0rm[TitE]]

id recommend the stumble extension for all you FF users. you pick an area of interest (such as games etc), click the stumble button and it randomly takes you to the best sites on the net (as rated by other stumble users).

also if you come across a cool site, give it a stumble thumbs up and then other stumble users can try it out.

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[St0rm[TitE]]

i know what you mean

ive been playing loads on mini online games which are quite addictive all due to stumble.

out of interest admin, on your own pc at home, what extensions do you use?

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[Symon]

Im giving firefox a test run at the moment and am finding it very slow ?#

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[Symon]

Maybe its because im using tabs have 4 tabs up but when i click in a thread say on here the sigs and banners are taken much much longer to load than I.E

Then again i am running 3 comps at the same time but the others are on I.E so i didnt think it would matter.

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[Viper]

https://addons.mozilla.org/extens...php?id=10&application=firefox

Ad Blocker

[David]

[Sitaram]

I am not certain what "bookmarks" are. So I shall google for it now.

I went to chipmark.com and registered. I guess bookmarks are simply favorite sites, saved links. I had been wishing for a way to access favorite links (ok bookmarks) from any computer, and to be able to export them and import them.

So, one more good reason to use firefox. Though, I see that chipmarks work with IE also.

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[St0rm[TitE]]

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[Sitaram]

I agree with Admin. If we use the wonderful free services of myfreeforum.org then we must act in such a way as to allow advertising and revenues which support myfreeforum.org

I volunteered my site to move to the new server. I elected to pay for my site, which means advertising free. As an oversite, during the move, ads are back, but I am quite pleased to allow them to remain, since it will mean possibly extra revenue for myfreeforum.org and also gives my site noticably more attention from google spider bots, which I am begining to see as an advangate to me, in the search engines. I mention this fact, not to complain, but to emphasize how we should really feel about advertising and support for such a site as this. I am quite happy to pay AND permit advertising, if it will help the growth and stability of myfreeforums.org.

The only thing which really irritated me were those ugly smiley face avatar ads, but they are gone now. And as Nietzsche said, "If this does not kill me, it can only make me stronger."

Plus, I benefit enormously from what I learn here, learning about firefox, and chipmarks for example. I installed firefox last week, and chipmarks today. And I have learned other useful software things which I document at my message board under SOFTWARE something something... you would see the forum for it at my board. And that reminds me, I must post there to document firefox and chipmarks.

[admin (no pm's please)]

sorry about, we are still dicovering little bits of "custom" configuration that go awry if things are moved, domains repointed etc.

I have said it before though, I actually like the adverts so long as we are able to keep them in proportion. The google adverts do contextualise after a while and you see things you may well want to see.

[Sitaram]

I knew right away that it was that "repointing" issue, and that you had moved my site... but as I say... leave it be for now.... I am less lonely with all those little spiderbots crawling around.... sort of like that one sci fi movie i saw, cant remember the name.... and the little spiders crawl throught he ghetto tenament, scaning everyones retina, while they all go about their business, fighting, loving, sleeping, getting drunk...

I will look at my dvds tonight and post the name here.

[admin (no pm's please)]

I hope in another few months all the wrinkles will be out of the system.

When we started we did not write an all singing all dancing system, why spend months of coding on an idea that might not work!

Even now there are still significant chunks missing, some people have paid for advert free forums, initially there was no where to even record the payment expiry date on the system These are now recorded, but there is no actual expiry or reminder mechanism in place!

We are now on MKIII of the management system.

MKI got us launched.
MKII corrected all the major flaws that become apparent as 1000's signed on, and was the biggest upgrade we have made. It was also mult server aware, and has proved so far at least to have things right enough for future upgrades without downtime.
MKIII Came on line as we started moving forums to multiple servers.

Actually to be more accurate once MKI was scrapped the changes have been a lot more gradual than there really being different versions.

[St0rm[TitE]]

admin, please keep this thread on topic i.e. Firefox extensions!

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[David]

I've just downloaded Firefox, and it is pretty fast.
My favorite extensions are:

Foxy Tunes(this essential for any muscian like me)
Faster Fox
Grease Monkey
Edit CSS
HTML Tidy
abcTajbu
BB Code Xtra
and my favorite would most definately be DownThemAll. Files download so much quicker using DTA. It is nearly instantaneous!

[St0rm[TitE]]

welcome to the wonderfull world of firefox!

[MarkD]

Not really an extension, but I haveto install quicktime as a plug in I have downloaded the plug in from the Firefox Plug in site, and installed it. Now everytime I go to a page on my website with QT it still tells me I have to intall QT.

What am I doing wrong??

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[St0rm[TitE]]

[MarkD]

I just tried a restart and nothing! I know this works because it was fine at the office. Its an embedded file here

http://holidaychat.myfreeforum.org/ftopic1131-20.php

I definetly have QT on my system because I can play QT files through firefox with other sites such as here

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/ludvigso/movies.htm

Not a major problem just an annoyance because I cant work it out.

[admin (no pm's please)]

I go the the second URL and it does not even ask me to download a plugin If i click on a movie it asks me what to open it with

[MarkD]

Weird, because that is apparantley a QT file. I officially give up for the night as I say its not a problem. Will take the laptop into the office tomorrow and look at it then.

Thanks admin

[MarkD]

[MarkD]

Another quirky little one I have been using, working in Financial Services I often need to use a calculator this extension adds a toobar icon for a calculator. You can set it to open as a sidebar, so when I have to add for example commission items together from a web page I can do it without leaving the webpage.

Calculator

[MarkD]

One last one for now I tend to have to view a lot of PDF files this extension

PDF Download

Makes that so much easier, you can customise it to open PDF's in a new tab, new window or even the PDF viewer you use. e.g. I have acrobat 7 pdf viewer, but prefer using my full version of adobe pdf writer 4. Normally PDF's open in the system default viewer, with this I can force them to open in pdfwriter 4, therefore making my life a whole lot easier!

[MarkD]

Just a quick flying visit, work has gone mental recently hence my abscence. Just though I would bump this thread and mention this extension IE Tab It embeds IE into FF and allows you to set sites that will automatically open as an IE embedded tab in FF.

I work in Financial Services and a lot of companies extranet sites can only be accessed via IE. I use this extension to make sure any bookmark for one of these companies opens as an IE embedded tab in FF.

Been using it a couple of weeks now and its great, saves so much hassle when I come across a site that only works on IE. Well worth a look.

[admin (no pm's please)]

This is a real killer extension for validating web pages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/249/

has shown a few warnings on this forum

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This is one I have wanted since day 1 of Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/

Not only will it spread tabs over multiple lines, but also it adds features from other extensions. I have removed about 4 extensions since installing this!

[MarkD]

[admin (no pm's please)]

With tab widths set to as small as I can whilst giving a decently readable title which works out at 7 tabs across, I seem to work at a 3 rows of tabs level. Did I mention I really needed this extension from the start!

[MarkD]

Well I haven't yet got down to more than 2 rows I have mine set to tab width fits tab title, ideal when you have to have several tabs open from one site. At least you can see which tab is which, saves having to to go through all tabs with the same icon looking for the one you want.

Love the ability to have the writing in the tab a different colour if you haven't visited that tab yet. You would be amazed at the amount of tabs I open and then forget about

I really can't believe that less than a year ago I was still using IE.

[admin (no pm's please)]

This is nifty, it is googles version of chipmarks, but with mnay more features.

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/index.html

Given the iffy nature of the chipmarks server, I have made the switch.

[Houndoom<3]

i have stumble upon but i have no clue how it works. my favortie is simply the spell checker. i always use it one forums especailly mine to look good. obvisly not this one haha...

and i love right clicking images and copying the location so i can just do that and [img]paste it here[/img]

[Houndoom<3]

oh and how could i foget...tabs are amazing

[MarkD]

Mouse Gestures absolutely love this extension. Don't know how I would do without this now, only problem I keep trying to use the functions in other programs.

[admin (no pm's please)]

Some people are saying it leaks memory!

I have tried quite a few gesture programs over the years and not got along with them, but I like the theory.

[MarkD]

[admin (no pm's please)]

I made my new office system a 2gb system because firefox regularly took my system over the 1gb mark

[Viper]

Firefox only uses about 40k Mem for me. CSS uses over 100k but that's expected really.

I have 1024mb of memory and all the apps. seem to run smoothly enough.

[Nick(NR)]

[Ziddy1232]

I have 2gb ram... it uses just over 67k for me

[admin (no pm's please)]

Sitting on 327mb in Linux at the moment, it could be the memory allocation mechanisms are very flawed.
I have never written a large system before that has not needed a lot of tuning in this area.

[Viper]

[CodyT07]

[Nick(NR)]

Viper send me your copies of Macromedia studio

I'm still running the 2004 versions

[Symon]

With firefox i can never see videos etc it gives me a white screen and a jigsaw piece then tells me to download quicktime which i have already then it still doesn't work this is only for embedded videos like on a forum.

[Hardcoregamer]

UNPLUG! It rocks! Use it to download and detach embedded videos and flash and images from web pages online!

[Danny M]

how come mine is over 80,000:



omg i just seen it over 100,000

how come its dead low on yours, but not min

[Nick(NR)]

firefox2 cache pages, for faster browsing around a site like amazon, problem is it doesn't release the memory until it's closed, I will post a how to get around on this, as I do have a solution so firefox2 releases the memory.

[Danny M]

ok thanks nick, sounds good

[Hardcoregamer]

We ARE talking about extensions aren't we guys? Anyways, I also like Stumble Upon!

[CodyT07]

[CodyT07]

Long bump, but I am liking this one
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
For web developers.

[Brandon]

Nice. Opera has these built in.. or most of them at least.

[admin (no pm's please)]

pretty much a must have. have used this for ever.

[Danny M]

Has Anyone Got This One:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

It Makes Firefox Faster