My Top 5 Favorite Firefox Extensions
I was reading Terminally Incoherent ’s Your Top 5 Favorite Firefox Extensions post a few minutes ago, and I realized something. I have eighteen Add-ons installed in Firefox (Including those that come with it), and they don’t include any of his top five.
My top five would be:
- Web Developer - Great tool for any web developer
- Sage - A Firefox feed reader
- All-in-one Gestures - Adds mouse gestures, a big time saver
- Bookmark Sync and Sort - Keeps my home computer’s bookmarks synched with work
- IE View, FirefoxView, and OperaView - OK that’s three, but they go together right? Let’s me open a page in IE (Internet Explorer) or Opera from Firefox, or a Firefox page from IE
Web Developer plugin is awesome. I totally forgot about that one.
I use Bloglines - mainly because at any given time during the day I’m at one of 4 of my machines (my home desktop, my laptop, my work computer or my research workstation at school). This way I can read my feeds from whichever machine I happen to be sitting at.
Same goes for bookmarks - use del.icio.us for most of my bookmarking needs. No need to sync them - they are web based.
I never got into the whole mouse gesture thing - I’m more of a keyboard shortcut guy. :)
Comment by Luke — January 17, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
My favorite is FLST (focus last selected tab). I use IE view (but it’s changed — you used to be able to specify that a page always open in IE, and you can’t now), but I didn’t know about operaview. I’ll have to get that one.
And the best thing about web developer (IMHO) is the view selection source. Great for blogging.
Comment by rightwingprof — January 18, 2007 @ 10:40 am
I use Performancing for blogging. It would be #6… or is that #8?
Comment by HDW — January 18, 2007 @ 1:33 pm