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Since this cool browser is coming up with so many really cool plugins, and innovative features - I thought we can do with a thread that discusses the latest innovative plugin... :)
Here's one that is in my opinion the best so far - The Viamatic Foxpose Plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...=1457&vid=7825
It gives a preview of all tabs currently open.
:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
I have the extension Firesomething 1.70
It changes the titlebar where it says Mozilla Firefox to something different on every session.
Today it's Mozilla Thunderostrich
Yesterday it was Mozilla Hypnopony
They get pretty funny.
Some more examples:
Watermule, Firejaguar, Waterklumpen, Fireanemone, Spacebuffalo, Firemole, Suncoyote etc etc etc
Not really a useful feature but.. Brings a random title each time. :P
For me, its the Tab X extension. It removes the close button at the end of the tab bar, and adds a close button on each of the browser tabs. I really found this useful, only now I discovered that you can close a tab by middle-clicking it. :eek: :o I still like it though. :D
www.noteme.com has a nice one that was written for vbf, but works well here.
he still hasn't updated it, but it works, for the most part.
http://noteme.com/vb_extension/smilies/dark1.gif
I have that installed and it is pretty handy when you are using quick reply option.Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
I only use ChatZilla (IRC) and TamperData by now. With TamperData you can manipulate any form info (HTTP headers, post data, get data, cookies) before the request is being sent. Since I am currently exploring web programming, this helps to test and debug my first steps of web programming using ASPX and Perl.
I don't use any of the new plugins because I still believe that 1.5 uses up way to much memory. I am currently using either IE 6.0 or FF 1.0.7.
The Quick Tabs feature from IE 7 (beta) is looking better in my opinion.
Really you think so?
I see it waste 2/6 i.e. 33% screen space... ;)
Those plugins are cool, but need an enlargement lens or a 60" screen !!?
Yeah, I really do. :p So what? It looks like a photo album. I like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
PS: I'm known as a great defender of IE. ;)
A space wastage of 33% for a photo album is real waste nevertheless... (Even photos can be optimally organized... )Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
FF plugin in comparison optimizes screen usage in a way that you can read the 4 pages (depending on screen resolution), and not be forced to view them as photographs... ;) :p
Okay... IE really does need one.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Anyways, reading the thread title / OP again might help... :D ;)
Well... That really depends on the size of your screen and the number of tabs open.Quote:
Originally Posted by nolxev
But, you can do this: CTRL + Scroll Mouse
Try it... Might help. ;)
Creative indeed... But, I think this is not available for FF 1.5+. Right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Deniz
Ouch... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sid
I use Sage as a Firefox add-in. It is useful for looking at RSS information.
Brad!
Cherish, what happened to your post... :eek: :eek: :eek:
Good that I warned you... ;)
:D
Oh, I think you know what happened... :D :D
I haven't really explored the available plugins. However, what I have always been wanting is a way to spell-check a form on a webpage before submitting it. Does anyone know if there is such a thing?
Perhaps, Google Toolbar does exactly what you are looking for...Quote:
Originally Posted by WizBang
Nice! Only thing is, it looks like a whole toolbar, so I'd have to give up page space for it. Do you know if plugins can add an item to the context menu for a textarea? If I could have just the one button added, and not create a new row, that'd be acceptable. Maybe I'll install the thing later and see if it can be configured that way, but it don't look like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
OooH!...OooH!...
I should do a little searching before asking stuff like that:
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
That one doesn't seem to be compatible with the latest version of FF... Or have I overlooked something?
I've been looking it over since posting the link. Thus far I think it's supposed to work with all versions from 1.0. Check here and see what you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
I am not sure if 1.5.0.4 is supported...Quote:
Originally Posted by WizBang
On downloading, I get an installation error saying that it is compatible only with 0.9 to 1.0+ (presumably, it means that 1.5.0.4 is not considered as 1.0+).Quote:
Firefox 0.8, 0.9.x, ALL 1.0.x Releases, and numerous Trunk builds. I currently only support SpellBound with Firefox 1.0 or greater which includes Trunk builds.
Is it working for you?
Wow, maybe they have a bug in the version checking function? I imagine there may be a way to do it anyway, but you'd have to pour over the documentation and select whatever files it needs. I don't plan to dig that deep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
I have yet to try it, as I'm currently using a Netscape build which I may leave for FF anyway. Thus far it looks like it will probably work fine, so I'll more than likely give it a try later today. I'll be sure to post the results. If it works I'll stick with the browser I have until FF includes the inline spell-checking function, which I've read is coming soon anyway :)
Still, I wish it had an easier way to access it than Ctrl+Shift+F7. Oh well, can't have everything...that is until someone writes the extension :)
Check this about Spellbound:
http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?entry=4130
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It says it's on the context menu!! Now that's more like it!! :thumb: :cool: :D
Interesting... It describes exactly the problem I face... Unfortunately, the URL to the download it recommends isn't working.
Google's Toolbar based check is pretty good and is working fine for me so far... So, I'll continue with it.
Guess what...
Seems the Mozilla site already has one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1022
Now that I've gone in a complete circle...
And I read this from that blog site:
Quote:
Originally Posted by some guy on a site
I dont know whats wrong with my browser... Perhaps, I am plain unlucky with this spell check extension. My browser now says that it is installed... But, when I select it from the Conetxt Menu - it claims to not be installed (kind of ridiculous message given that I clicked it in the first place... :D ).
Lets see... I'll try on another PC later today...
The link to the updated Spellbound worked fine for me, so I have the file. If you want it, I suppose I could post it? Then apparently you drop it into your browser and it installs (still I haven't tried yet).
I have it downloaded too... I'll try it later today. Thanks for the find... :)
Well, i prefer the following
1.) ShowIp
2.) NoScript
3.) IETab
4.) VideoDownloader
5.) LiveHttpHeaders
6.) SwitchProxy
I think "SwitchProxy" would be very useful for my laptop... I wanted to have something like this for a while now... :)
Thanks for sharing... :thumb:
Wiz, dropping AspellFox into my browser also didn't help... I'll try it later, and on another PC...
No Problem dude, i would recommend IE Tab if you want to visit websites which insists you use IE.
And LiveHttpHeaders are useful if you want to monitor the traffic of the websites you are visiting.
Anyway, keep introducing new FireFoz extensions...who knows...i may need some of them. :wave:
Don't forget the library file too. Apparently there's two files to install. With Spellbound, I tried a few things, and got as far as the context menu option opening the spell checking dialog. But it gave a message about the missing library first, so there wasn't a dictionary for it to work off of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
I'll be trying the other libraries when I get the chance. I don't know which one if any are for the build I have.
AspellFox didn't work at all no matter which way I tried. Probably not compatable.
Mouse Gestures, and Firebug. These are my favourite extensions of all time.
Tab Mix Plus is cool too.
Firebug looks nice... :) :thumb:
Any interesting plugins, folks?
BTW, to say that Firefox leaks is to make a polite understatement - right?
(Check attached image... Taskmanager tells that FF consumes 1 GB on my PC. :rolleyes: )
Does anyone know of this issue or an existence of a solution... ?
Agree. I use FoxClocks to display the time and date in Fx.
That probably depends a lot on your plugins and what kind of sites you visit (i.e. lots of flash etc.). My firefox has been running for 2 days now and it only consumes 150 MB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
Ssshhh... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yves M
(We don't want people to know this, do we... ?)
Normally, my FF is consuming around 250 MB at worst. However, this time I was surprised to see an instance with only about 5 Tabs take so much from my system. Of these tabs, one for sure was CG. :D
(Glances at list of installed extensions... blimey, have I got that many?)
The ones I can't live without:
Useful ones:
- Adblock+/Adblock Filterset.G updater
- All-in-one gestures
- All-in-one sidebar
- FlashGot (combined with FreeDownloadManager)
- Greasemonkey
- IE Tab
- Permit Cookies (or Cookie Culler)
- Sage
- Session Manager
- Tab Mix Plus
- UI Tweaker (Lets you use the dead space to the right of the menu - saves on a toolbar)
- Bugmenot
- Extended statusbar
- Foxmarks
- Imagezoom
- Print preview
- Restart firefox (simple, but great for when you update the extensions)
- Smiley Xtra
- Stylish
Well, not only that once you hit 30-40 tabs...there is this tendecy that FF will crash.... Tried it a few times and only once did it not crash...hope they fix the bug if this is really a bug and not my PC's problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
Well, to me a leak would be when memory isn't released once the app terminates. I'm not very familiar with Java, but in the bit that I've done I don't recall much for cleanup code if any. I guess the garbage collection is relied upon for that. Once loaded, classes stay in memory until the app terminates, yes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
I do have a few extensions, but not many. Resource usage is always pretty low whenever I've checked, but I can't say I've looked after it's been running for many, many hours, or with tons of tabs open.
Oh, and SpellBound is soooo handy! I couldn't get Aspell to work though. The spell checking algorithm is poor IMHO, but the inline checking is perfect for pointing out the typos.
I have installed Firefox 2.0 and find it faster than the previous version I had - 1.5.x.
I must inform that "SwitchProxy" if installed with a previous version wont work with 2.0 (in fact, you will be informed at install time that SwtichProxy wont be available for use).
The replacement addon would be FoxyProxy:
Do you have the IE Tab plug-in for FireFox yet ???Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
BTW, I just found out that CTRL + Click will open a link (or a bookmark) in a new Tab, while SHIFT + Click will open the same in the new window... :)
Yeah, I've been using the Ctrl+Click since one of the first Tabbed versions of Netscape, but I don't recall the Shift-Click feature being there, and hadn't tried till just now - thanks for that :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
Any notable new features in 2.0? I think I read that inline spell checking was going to be standard so an add-in/plugin wouldn't be needed.