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Friday, March 19, 2010

8 Firefox Extensions That I Must Have

Yes I am doing one of these top 5 10 15 20 whatever blogs.  But I'm gonna go a slightly different route and have a top 8 list.  Recently I been adding some extensions lately.  All I been saying to myself was, why haven't been using these before!  So let get to it.  First off,

  1. Adblock Plus - I been using Adblock ever since I been using Firefox.  It a must have.  If your reading this, then most likely you already know about it.  If you don't know then you are living in a cave.  If you are using Firefox, download this extension now.  Block those stupid ads.  I've came across a few website owners that hate it because if you block their ads because they don't get their money.  I point and laugh.
  2. ColorfulTabs -  This extension beautifies your Firefox.  It does what is says, makes your tabs colorful.  You can customize it by having colors be random, colors based on domain name or set your own colors by right clicking on the tab.  You could also fine tune the the colors to be as light or dark as possible.
  3. Aniweather - Yes it a another weather extension but this one ANIMATES!  You get your current weather on your status bar.  When you hover your cursor over it, a little window pops up that has your local weather that animates.  If you click on it, you get your 4 day outlook that also animates.  How fucking cool is that.  It even has radar maps that also animate.  You can customize what you want to show up on the status bar.  The appearance of your Aniweather.  Downside is that depending on the website, if they have embedded video, the pop up will show up somewhere else.  Not a big issue.
  4. FEBE - FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, bookmarks and other Firefox related data to a specified folder.  You can set it to back up daily, monthly or whatever.  You can set it to only back up your extensions or just bookmarks.  It wonderful and I do recommend trying it out.
  5. Feedly - This gem turns your RSS feeds into a magazine like layout.  Add a feed, preview it to see if it works then subscribe.  This is one of my newest extension I became in love with.  It easy to read.  You can share the articles with friends.  Separate each RSS feed into tabs.  Only downside is not having the abilityto changing the layout a little.  The ability to change the colors.  One thing to point out is that it has a mini side bar for when you see something you like,  you can share it.  It a little distraction IMO but you can turn it off in the preferences.
  6. Stumbleupon - I haven't been using it much but it is handy for those really slow days.  Discover some creative website with a click of a button.  Tell Stumble what type of website you like.  For example, humor, technology, sports, etc.  You can even tell it to stumble on certain website like The Onion, CNN, Funny or Die.
  7. Speed Dial - Just like Opera browser, speed dial is collection of your favorite websites on one page.  You can set it up to have as many links as you want.  Even organize them into groups.  I mostly use the drop down menu from the icon to access my websites faster.  You can have speed dial load when creating a new tab or when you load up Firefox.
  8. Shareaholic -  If you come across something you like on the interwebs, share it with Shareaholic.  You can customize what service you want to show up when you click on the icon like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, reddit, Delicious, etc.  Plus you have the option to have the Shareaholic button appear on the URL bar, context menu or main navigation menu.
Here a honorable mention:

  • Greasemonkey - I only have a youtube script that allows me to download their videos.  Still looking for more scripts that really puts this thing over the top.  If you got suggestions, let me know.
That it for my top 8 list of my favorite Firefox extensions.  I'm still on the lookout for more.  Although I shouldn't add anymore.  It might make Firefox slow and crappy.  

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