Hello, boys and girls! Today we’re going to talk a little about Firefox Browser extensions.
As an aside on an already existing thread at one of my boards, I mentioned to pal chrisretusn that he had a lot of cool looking icons on a Firefox screenshot that he’d just posted. His reply was to create an appropriately titled thread in the correct area of the board and commence to do a wonderful mini-tutorial of his FF addons.
It’s so cool, in fact, that I’m writing about it here to encourage you folks to go check it out. It’s at my Out of the Woods board in the Computer Lab under the title Status Bar Doo-Dads – Fx Extensions. There’s some great info there for you FF users.
Sheeesh! And I thought I had a lot of extensions installed. 😉 I actually liked quite a few more after seeing some of those that Chris had installed. I went to their websites and checked ’em out. I ended up installing 4 new extensions on my FF.
- No Script – a security addon that everyone should have
- Better Privacy – another great security tool
- Secure Login – a great little login manager
- Smiley Xtra – an emoticon sidebar manager
Check these out… and the others that Chris mentions in his post. Lots of fun for FF users.
That’s it for now.
Later…
~Eric
Nocturnal Slacker v2.0 
Don’t forget Private Browsing which is already built into Firefox.
And of course some other security related Firefox Extension greats:
Flashblock
AdBlock Plus
PDF Download
WOT
Holy crap he has a lot of extensions!!! Looking through them now to see if I want/need any of them.
Almost forgot…
Thanks for that great post, Chris. I burned most of my morning farting around with FF and those extensions. I particularly like that Secure Login. VERY COOL! 🙂
Whoa! You are right, Chris, how can you load Firefox with all those extensions! LOL! You must have a huge amount of RAM on that computer!
Firefox was a great browser … 2 or 3 years ago. But it’s sluggish, possibly because of memory leakage, and only gets slower with each version released. I used it for a while on my main machines, but had to get rid of it.
What I use, now, is Safari on my iMac (a convenient choice, since it comes installed), and Chrome on my Windows laptop. Firefox’s main advantage is in its vast extension gallery, but now that Google hosts a hefty number of them for Chrome, this advantage is vanishing. Rapidly.
Plus, Chrome has one enormous benefit that the rest don’t, which is native support for Flash, which the Mozilla folks are adamant about never doing with Firefox.
At our company, we’ve been recommending Chrome as a default browser for all our clients, and to date none of those that switched have complained about it. In fact, a few of them regretted not having gone that route earlier.
I tried, but never really liked, FF* in my MS Windows installations back in my Windoze daze. However, when I came to Linux, I found that FF seems to be in its element. It’s a much better app in Linux. It may be OK in Windows nowadays, but I wouldn’t know.
*I did like, and use, the old Mozilla Browser (now Seamonkey) in MS Windows, though. It worked like a champ! I still use it in Linux as an HTML editor app. 🙂