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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on May 29, 2008, 08:04:51 am

Title: Firefox users: What extensions do you use and what would you rate them?
Post by: jr2 on May 29, 2008, 08:04:51 am

Rate using 1-5, 1 being poor (but obviously you use it for some reason, it just bugs you) and 5 being excellent, N/A being not used enough to rate.  You can also include Themes you use if you want, separately, and at the end of your list.

I use:

Adblock Filterset.G Updater (Don't know, is disabled do to an incompatibility that I'm not sure is fixed yet)
Adblock Plus (same as above)
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper (same as above)
Aging Tabs (just got, not sure if I'm keeping it or not)
All-in-One Sidebar (5 stars)
Bookmark Duplicate Detector (5 stars)
Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics (5 stars, but I haven't used all of its features)
BugMeNot (4 stars, get from www.bugmenot.com )
Cache View (5 stars)
ChatZilla (5 stars)
CLEO (N/A, but it appeared to work well when I did use it)
CookieSafe (5 stars)
DownloadHelper (4 stars)
DownThemAll! (N/A, I use FlashGot + FlashGet)
Email This! Bookmarklet Extension (N/A, maybe used once or twice)
Extended Statusbar (5 stars)
Fasterfox (5 stars)
FEBE (N/A, works when used however)
FireFTP (N/A)
Fission (5 stars)
Flashblock (5 stars)
FlashGot (5 stars)
Forecastfox (4 stars, 5 now that I've disabled the weather alert popups - they slow games down when FF is on and it refreshes, plus if I want to look at the weather I can move my eyes myself, thx.  xD )
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (5 stars, awesome - well, sometimes gets a proxy config error now and then, so 4 stars until they fix that)
FoxyTunes (N/A)
Gmail Manager (5 stars)
Go to WindizUpdate (N/A, use IE Tab, works fine with regular Windows update)
Google Advanced Operations Toolbar (N/A, what I've seen is 4 stars)
Google Video Downloader (N/A, use DownloadHelper)
Google Web Accelerator (4 stars, b/c of some sites blocking you if you use it [it has an option for disabling acceleration on sites that you specify])
Google Preview (5 stars)
Html Validator (N/A)
IE Tab (5 stars)
MR Tech Local Install (5 stars)
NoScript (5 stars)
PDF Download (5 stars)
SearchWords (5 stars)
SeoQuake (N/A, seems to be 5 stars if you're into Search Engine Optimization)
ShowIP (5 stars)
Splash (5 stars)
StumbleUpon (5 stars, they also have a version for IE)
Tab Mix Plus (5 stars)
Tabbrowser Preferences (N/A, use Tab Mix Plus, so it's disabled)
Torrent Finder Toolbar (5 stars)
Torrent-Search Toolbar (3 stars)
TorrentBar (4 stars, 5 if there were more torrent sites to choose from)
translator (5 stars)
Update Notifier (5 stars)
User Agent Switcher (5 stars)

Themes:

Aero Fox (N/A, just got)
Aero Silver Fox (N/A, just got)
Bible Fox Blue (N/A, just got)
Black Aqua (2 stars, just got, yuck, prolly getting rid of it)
BloodFire (5 stars, just got)

Title: Re: Firefox users: What extensions do you use and what would you rate them?
Post by: Jeff Vader on May 29, 2008, 08:25:12 am

Adblock Plus (5 stars): Well, ads suck. Especially those that can move and make noises. Adblock takes care of them most conveniently.  Also, the localisations are fun. And I use it to control Javascript on sites (meaning, I have a *.js* rule active, and on trustworthy sites I just create an exception rule).

Forecastfox Enhanced (4 stars): Easy to use, handy (especially when I didn't have an outdoor thermometer). And as I said in the other thread, I've fiddled the radar to show a regularly updated forecast map, which is quite handy.

Occasionally I also use rikaichan, Perapera-kun or some other kanji translator. I can't rate them due to the currently low usage. Though I suppose they're useful for figuring out a few kanji symbols. But for actual translation of text, no-no.

Redshift was a stylish, simple and appealing theme, but since it hasn't been upgraded to support FF3... no themes  :(

Title: Re: Firefox users: What extensions do you use and what would you rate them?
Post by: Wanderer on May 29, 2008, 08:34:11 am

NoScript (5 stars) is awesome in getting rid of all that annoying script garbage that is filling the webpages these days.

Adblock Plus (5 stars)

PDF Download... Gets 5 stars if adobe is installed due adobe acrobats bad performance.. less if you have better pdf reader.

ImageZoom (3 stars) useful occasionally

of themes...

Noia 2.0 Extreme (5 stars) nothing fancy but everything looks good and works like a dream.

Title: Re: Firefox users: What extensions do you use and what would you rate them?
Post by: Stormkeeper on May 29, 2008, 12:34:28 pm

I have No-Script and Stealther. No-Script gets 5 Stars from me. Stealther gets 5 Stars too.  :nervous:

Title: Re: Firefox users: What extensions do you use and what would you rate them?
Post by: colecampbell666 on May 29, 2008, 01:57:55 pm

AdBlockPlus 5/5
NoScript 4/5
FasterFox (FF speed tweaks) (but not on FF3 :( ) 5/5
Download Statusbar 5/5
Chatzilla - IRC Client 5/5
Redshift Theme 4/5


I don't use many anymore since they don't work with FF3. :(