Customizing Firefox

Scot's Newsletter ^ | January 3, 2005 | Scot Finnie

[Eagle9]

This should be helpful to many of the new users of Firefox here at FR.

[BJClinton]

Thanks, lotsa good info.

[Mo1]

for a later read

PING

[Brian328i]

Nifty post.

The only extensions I really like so far are:
Disable Targets for Downloads
Adblock (AMAZING! filters out so much with wildcards)
Tabbrowser Preferences
Add Bookmark Here
Download Manager Tweak
DragToTab
View Cookies
Dictionary Search
Open Links In...

[LibWhacker]

Thanks! I second the BugMeNot and WordCount extensions. Also like DictionarySearch a lot.

[smonk]

Dict is frequently more useful than dictionary search. less overhead, quicker, etc. I have both extensions loaded, but find that I use dict much more frequently.

[nopardons]

bttt

[smonk]

I enabled pipelining just yesterday. whatever it's doing, it's not hurting anything. maybe things are faster, maybe it has just been a good day for bellsouth DSL. maybe it's my imagination.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, lots to check out.

[Northern Alliance]

Have a look at:

Permit Cookies
Sort Bookmarks
A's Yahoo mail notifier (be aware of security implications)

[Terpfen]

He's wrong about Tabbrowser Preferences. In conjunction with MiniT+ (as opposed to the plain old MiniT he recommended), Single Window, and FLST, you add a wealth of tabbed browsing controls that rival the bloated, buggy Tabbrowser Extensions for sheer usefulness.

Now if only someone would code an extension that puts a status bar in each tab's label, ala TBE.

[backhoe]

Thanks- crosslinked here:

Browser Wars, take two
various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1306815/posts

[prairiebreeze]

Thank you for the ping, I've forwarded this url to Mr. Prairie who is a new Firefox user. I'm letting him figure it all out so he can teach me, :^P.

[patj]

bump

[arthurus]

bttt

[Jeff Gordon]

Firefox bump mainly to book mark this wonderful post so that I can tweak the Firefoxs on my other computers.

Thank you sir.

[Uncle Fud]

The only extensions I use which haven't yet been mentioned are PrefBar and PrefButtons, which let me put the graphics control toggles (animation, graphics, flash etc) right on the toolbar so I can instantly change them as needed.

Since most of my browsing is either blogs and news, or work-oriented document research, I leave all graphics off for speed by default and only toggle them on when a particular site has a picture I want to see.

I switched from Opera to Firefox back in Novemeber and the only thing I still miss is Opera's great page zoom in-zoom out feature.

[Peach]

So far over my head!

[Pusterfuss]

Does anyone use the little square FR pager window? I keep getting a message that I need a plug-in, but I can't load the plug-in, so I am always getting the error message. Any help appreciated.

[G3]

Thanks for all the info and tips. I have one problem that should be an easy one for you. When I click on "tools,extensions, and get more extensions", it takes me to Mozilla web site. How do I get the extension you have listed on the other sites.

Sorry to be so dense but I have tried a few things with no success.

Thanks