[daniel1212]

Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file

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But except for a few searches, Firefox with extensions is far superior to MS, or Chrome, for power users.

BBCodeXtra https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bbcodextra/ An extension which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way... Very useful for FR.

FT DeepDark https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/ Best theme i found.

Noiascrollbars https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noiascrollbars A work of beauty and far better visibility.

ColorfulTabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colorfultabs/?src=search/ Make tabs distinctive. Options to change color per site, etc.

Copy as HTML Link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-as-html-link/?src=search R. click and Copy as HTML Link

Converter: Right click on metric sizes and convert to standard. Also for currency. http://www.the-converter.co/

Color That Site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-that-site/ — Change the colors of web sites including text.

Session Manager 0.7.5 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/ Saves sessions

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.6 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus Reduce tab width; Enable multiple tab rows; Change how active tab looks, etc.

Signature: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopaste/ insert custom text into posts and emails.

Googlebarlite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googlebar-lite/ — More options and customizations than Google Toolbar

Lazarus: Form Recovery: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/ — Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form, right click, "recover form",

Google/Yandex search link fix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/ The actual URL is copied.

Mozilla Archive Format https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/

Memory Restart https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-restart/ Shows how much ram FF is using, and enables easy restart to flush memory.

Menu Wizard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/s3menu-wizard/ — Helps removing, moving and renaming menus and menu items

[Resettozero]

Wow. Thanks.

[texas booster]

BTTT.

Thanks, I will work through your suggestions to see what works best for me.

I usually keep my browsers very minimal.

[Geoffrey]

[b]Thank you. Added some already...
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I like bbcode, just used it for the first time!

Many thanks.

[TomGuy]

The problem with Firefox/Mozilla is their rapid release — about every 6 weeks. Those releases break more extensions than fix issues.

Many extension authors have simply quit updating their extensions because they have more important things to do that update Firefox extensions every 6 weeks.

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I have tried several Mozilla-Firefox based browsers. In some ways they are better, but they also suffer from the rapid release and broken extentions. I did discover that the 32-bit browsers seem to work better with extensions than the 64-bit browser versions do. Firefox, unless it has changed recently, is a 32-bit browser.

I finally had quit browser upgrades/updates just to keep the old extensions working. They are more useful than another rapid release irritant.

[mrsmith]

HostMan is great.
Besides blocking ads it also blocks many malware sites.

[Techster]

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