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[xpress]

Here are some very very useful extensions for your firefox browser...They can make your online experience easy...

1. Session Manager
Continue your browsing session even after a system crash, or just next startup....It restores your last viewed tabs or windows.
Inbuilt in Opera....Hope FireFox will also make it inbuilt.

2. Adblock Plus
Really very useful extension. Blocking almost all annoying ads...I am very happy with this extension. With this extension, you
can surf internet without ads. And automatic updater extension Adblock Filterset is also available. It periodically
updates new advertisements and blocks them. Must have extension.

3. WebMail Notifier
Yes...its working.....You check your gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and some other mails without logging in. It will automatically checks time to time for new mails, and notify them to you. And it can check multiple accounts of the same mail provider....For example you can check multiple gmail accounts at the same time.

4. Speed Dial
If you use Opera you know this extension and how useful it is. You can access your favourite websites with a single click.
It will show you nine thumbnails of your favourite websites for every new page you open. You can even see the preview
image of the website. Just click on it, and the website will be opened.

5. FireFTP
Now you can access FTP from the browser itself. Very handy and useful. Run this extension and access your files through FTP
without an external client.

Try these extensions and you'll never leave them. I will add some more later, if I found any useful extensions

[laniczech]

I like the video download helper addon, great for downloading movies and music, i use it all the time and the quality is great, if i want to watch a movie i just download it the night before and without any inturuption i can watch it ragardless if internet peoblems

[Saint_Michael]

I am a big fan of WebMail Notifier because of the fact I can open up all my email accounts all at once with a single click of the button, just to bad they don't add more email accounts to it such as the ISP email accounts and what not. I have been using FireFTP on and off for a year or so for quick fixes but other then that I have been using Dreamweaver's built in FTP for my website needs.

[miladinoski]

Copying ideas from Opera FTW!

Seriously, Opera has everything you mentioned here except something to match with FireFTP. You mentioned the session manager and the speed dial, but Opera also has a great AdBlocker - which they call 'Content Blocker' and you can download custom urlfilter.ini files like this one.

And for the webmail notifier, Opera includes a full email client with support for IMAP and POP and although it doesn't support checking Yahoo! or Live Mail because they don't offer POP3 for free, you can manage and send mails from any other mail account that you have IMAP/POP3 and/or SMTP access to.

[Nabb]

A couple more good ones that you may find handy:

NoScript
Blocks JavaScript, Java, and Flash on non-trusted sites, to help block out malicious websites (such as those with 100 JavaScript alerts upon exit), and alerts you to cross-site requests, to ensure your security on the web.
(note: I don't use this because I'm on Chrome, but I've heard good things )

IE Tab
Some web pages are designed for Internet Explorer. This add-on allows you to embed Internet Explorer within your Firefox browser at the click of a button (you can also set websites to automatically render in IE), to stop the need of changing browsers for those IE specific web-pages (even though I haven't seen any in a while).

[xpress]

miladinoski, on Jan 2 2009, 01:21 AM, said:

Copying ideas from Opera FTW!
Opera also has a great AdBlocker - which they call 'Content Blocker' and you can download custom urlfilter.ini files like this one.

And for the webmail notifier, Opera includes a full email client with support for IMAP and POP and although it doesn't support checking Yahoo! or Live Mail because they don't offer POP3 for free, you can manage and send mails from any other mail account that you have IMAP/POP3 and/or SMTP access to.

Yes, Opera has Block-Content option. I'm using it. But it is not as much user friendly as firefox extension AdBlock Plus. Adding filters in Opera is very difficult for a novice user. And we have to do it manually. But with AdBlock no need for that. There is another addon Adblock Filter Updater which updates the filters every 2 to 3 days. So no more ads...very user friendly...

Webmail Notifier is also very very user friendly than any mail client. We know how difficult it is to setup a new pop3 up account
in mail client and the procedure changes with mail providers and clients. But no technical knowledge needed for WebMail Notifier. Just you have to enter your username and password. Thats it. And it works very very fast.

But Opera is my favourite browser anyway...No matter how many extensions Firefox introduces, Opera will be my first choice for browsing...

Nabb, on Jan 2 2009, 01:54 AM, said:

A couple more good ones that you may find handy:

NoScript
Blocks JavaScript, Java, and Flash on non-trusted sites, to help block out malicious websites (such as those with 100 JavaScript alerts upon exit), and alerts you to cross-site requests, to ensure your security on the web.
(note: I don't use this because I'm on Chrome, but I've heard good things )

IE Tab
Some web pages are designed for Internet Explorer. This add-on allows you to embed Internet Explorer within your Firefox browser at the click of a button (you can also set websites to automatically render in IE), to stop the need of changing browsers for those IE specific web-pages (even though I haven't seen any in a while).

Thanks for the additions. I too heard of these but haven't tried yet. I'm using another extension User Agent Switcher when any website warns about compatibilty issues or needs a specific browser like IE...It is working nice. But Integrating IE to FF with IE Tab is looking good, I'll try. Post if you know anyother good extensions..

[rpgsearcherz]

Man, these extensions kind of make me want to move from IE to Firefox now...Sadly as far as I know there are no extensions for IE, but then again I didn't know there were add-ons for Firefox either.

Now, some of those would be redundant for me, but still, that means that there's even more!

[Saint_Michael]

Sadly Internet Explorer has extensions it just that Firefox extensions are a lot better and more customizable. The only IE extension worth getting is the IE7 Pro extension as it add a few more features for customization but again IE extensions are so limited to what you can do and others you have to pay for which is even lamer.

[Baniboy]

Really great but it lacks one add-on, web developer toolbar.

It's really great when you're learning html, css and javascript. When something goes wrong you can just look up why it's not working.

It lets you disable styles and/or javascript. It validates html, css and javascript(there's some holes in the validation system but it has all that you might need when you're a novice coder)
link to download page: https://addons.mozil...irefox/addon/60

[rayzoredge]

Baniboy: Firebug is a great web developer's tool. You should check that out and see if it suits you.

NoScript will block everything anyway, so running AdBlock in conjunction is rather redundant.

I would like to recommend the Download StatusBar just because the Downloads dialog box is rather annoying.

StumbleUpon is a great time-waster. I'm not sure if this would be the best add-on to throw into the mix of recommendations, considering the fact that you can spend so much time just finding the best of the Internet.

Greasemonkey is also a great way to fiddle with pages by adding bits of Javascript, so a web-savvy user can, let's say, bend things to his or her will a wee bit.