Ask HN: your favorite obscure Firefox extensions?

17 pointsby Herringvor 17 Jahren29 comments

Working definition: anything that's not the first page of popular extensions.

Autocopy - automatically copy selected text to clipboard

Googlepedia - wikipedia results along with google searches

AutoPager - breaking my own rule, but this one's awesome

29 comments

Raja_Selvarajvor 17 Jahren

Surprised that Vimperator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891) has not been mentioned yet. Vim for the web !

smoofravor 17 Jahren

I loved Hit-A-Hint so much I forked it when the original devoper abandoned it.

http://elder-gods.org/lol

wlievensvor 17 Jahren

Long Titles used to be essential for reading xkcd, but I think the current Firefox build has it built-in.

prakashvor 17 Jahren

AS Number: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2072

Herringvor 17 Jahren

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/too-many-tabs-firefox-add-ons-t...

That's what i use to manage 50+ tabs. The list is missing firegestures & swifttabs.

links: AutoCopy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383

Googlepedia - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517

AutoPager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925

ujalvor 17 Jahren

Tabs Open Relative https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1956

Herringvor 17 Jahren

I'm fairly sure tab mix plus does that.

Beanblabbervor 17 Jahren

Abduction: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

Let's you take a picture of a part of your page by rearranging a square. Helps so you don't have to go to paint or photoshop to crop your recent screenshot.

vrandomvor 17 Jahren

It's what i came here to recommend :)

May i also add ImgLikeOpera (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672). Avoid downloading any pics on a page.

My 3gb per month mobile broadband limit here in the UK goes soooo much further with it.

windsurfervor 17 Jahren

Did you know that Autocopy just changes "clipboard.autocopy" in about:config to true?

Herringvor 17 Jahren

The extension must precede that functionality. I remember stealing some code from it years ago & it was more complex.

leed25dvor 17 Jahren

clear fields, a small but very useful extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2408

boundlessdreamzvor 17 Jahren

Favourite: PDF plugin for Mac OS X. This uses the mac's native pdf rendered and makes viewing pdf's a joy rather than a pain. http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

Shameless plug: If you are a google docs user you might want to look gdocsbar [http://www.gdocsbar.com]. an update with some more features like download, is on the works and will be released shortly.

epevor 17 Jahren

If you do any web development that involves web metrics (Google Analyitics, Omniture, etc.), Omnibug is quite useful:

http://www.rosssimpson.com/dev/omnibug.html

DarkShikarivor 17 Jahren

Tree-style tabs:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

An absolute must if you love having 50-100+ tabs open. Oddly enough, it works rather well with Tab Mix Plus as well.

LogicHoleFlawvor 17 Jahren

Tree-style tabs + Colored Tabs extension is a joy to use. You'd think that Tree-styled tabs would not play nice with other tab extensions but the author makes large efforts to interoperate.

Herringvor 17 Jahren

Does it really work better than tab mix plus' multi row? I've used both & I'm not entirely convinced to switch.

fergusjdawsonvor 17 Jahren

wow. 50-100 tabs? I find it useful with less than a dozen.

paddy_mvor 17 Jahren

mozrepl This has so much potential. You can telnet into your firefox instance and run javascript commands, on documents and on the chrome. When I get some time I have ideas about integrating this with emacs (there already is mozreply.el , but it does little more than telnetting in).

dave_auvor 17 Jahren

Leechblock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

Lets me set fairly fine grained time limits on various sites that I'd otherwise spend too much time on.

travisjefferyvor 17 Jahren

I use Safari more than Firefox these days. But when I use Firefox I quite like Vimperator, especially since I can write simple but functional extensions for it easily.

chaosmachinevor 17 Jahren

Colorzilla:

http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/

bmacvor 17 Jahren

Hide Menubar (alt to show menu bar) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762

Hide Navigation Bar (F2 to toggle nav bar) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8769

Both are awesome for netbooks. I find hide menubar nice to have even when I do have the space to spare because I use the menu bar so rarely.

weaksaucevor 17 Jahren

Mouse Gestures Redox - Emulates Opera mouse gestures and now has rocker gestures for the mac.

http://www.mousegestures.org/

Speed Dial - Emulates the Opera speed dial home page. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

Herringvor 17 Jahren

I used Mouse Gestures Redox for a long while then I switched to firegestures. I can't remember why exactly, I think something to do with speed & a larger library of gestures.

drinianvor 17 Jahren

Rikaichan -- remarkably detailed Japanese - English dictionary (hover over words to show definitions) http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

krishna2vor 17 Jahren

LORI - Life Of Request Info

Awesome plugin for quick/constant perf measurement. It shows how long it took the browser to get the first byte, the total time for page rendering, the total size of page and the total number of requests. For example, for this page, the stats are :

0.160s 0.600s 26.14KB 5 req

zouhairvor 17 Jahren

Open In Browser : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207

Will give you the possibility to open a file (especially file that you are sure is text) in Firefox instead of downloading it.

bagheeravor 17 Jahren

Table tools - useful for sorting and filtering tables inline https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2637