Comments on: Essential Firefox Extensions

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:19:32 +0000

I just found out that this post was picked up in Robert Scoble’s shared items feed. Cool! I didn’t know Scoble read this blog. I’m a little flattered.

Welcome to anybody who’s reading me from there.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:31:46 +0000

Bugmenot, Better Gmail, Forecastfox, All-in-One Sidebar, Download Statusbar, Tiny Menu, Tab Mix Plus, and Google notebook. There are so many good extensions out there that it is tough not only to find them, but to name them all.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:34:48 +0000

Try the iMacro extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863
It’s very useful for automated web testing and/or for just generally automating mundane and repetitive tasks

Tom

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:02:53 +0000

yeah.. i agree alex. I’ve had some memory issues. I think it was with firebug and web developer together now that you mention it.

However at home I’m also using my custom noslang plugins, user agent switcher, a google quality rater plugin, and scribefire.

I didn’t need any of those at work (although i’ll probably install user agent switcher. It’s always fun to tell a website you’re googlebot and see what happens)

I did used to use firebug, but for some reason I like web developer.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:48:37 +0000

Unfortunately, the more plugins you use, the slower and less stable Firefox becomes. It’s got some horrible memory leak at the moment and will often just lock up and crash on our machines here if you have too many tabs open for too long.

There was a time when it was head and shoulders the best browser out there (for PC). Not sure if that’s the case at this current time.