Friday, June 30, 2006

Fav firefox extentions

links to home sites with more updated versions than the mozilla extentions page:
Must haves:
Flash block - 133a or FlashBlock 1.5
AdBlock - blocks bandwidth leeching advertizing, use filterset G
NoScript - blocks scripts from running until you allow them
SpoofStick - easily see if you are at a phishing site. NOT1.5!
Automarks - Auto complete your address line, FF v1.5 only version
SessionSaver - restores all the tabs that were open when you last shut down firefox
AutoForm OR AutoFill - automatically fill in forms. NOT1.5!

Advanced users:
FasterFox - a few optimizations
WebMailCompose - lets you click an email address to start a new email in Gmail
del.icio.us - anywhere bookmarks
DownloadEmbeded - lets you save flash & other embedded stuff
StumbleUpon - Semi random sites broken down by catagory and rating. NOT1.5!
RedirectRemover - removes redirects from web links
JustBlogIt - post to blogger.com
SmoothWheel - scroll smoothly
CopyImage - pretty self explanatory
TabBrowserPreferences - some tweaks and optimizations
GooglePreview - adds visual previews to google searches
CookieCuller - lets you view and disable cookies 1.5 compatable
VOip - Sip compliant Voice over internet client

This - makes old extentions work with FireFox 1.5
  1. At location bar, enter: about:config This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
  2. Right click on the list, select New > String
  3. At preference name enter "app.extensions.version" (without quotes).
  4. Then, enter "1.0" (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version
  5. Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
  6. Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.

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