Just getting around to playing around with firefox over the past few weeks.. now venturing into the addons.. so many of em it's hard to see straight.. so I gotta come to my trusty, never let me down before, fellow muscooper's! anyone got a few they recommend (please describe too)?
You know I'm all over this one. Firefox is the best browser EVER ;D
(follow the links for complete description)
Adblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/)- block popups and ads easily
Gmail Notifier (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/173/) - give you an icon on the bottom status bar letting you know of new gmail
Yahoo Mail Notifier (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1264/) - same thing for Yahoo Mail
IE View (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/35/) - quickly opens a link in IE for those pages that don't support Firfox (Marquette All Access is the only page a "frequent" that doesn't support Firefox)
Bugmenot (http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/)- blow right by registration pages on news websites :)
I use both, and am not a FF nazi. I really like the FF plug ins .. but I prefer IE for one reason: FF crashes all the time. Sorry. If I use FF for 8 hours, it'll crash 5 times easy. And this is the new version. IE almost never crashes for me.
But I'll add to Rocky's list..
1-ClickWeather is pretty decent if you put it on your menu bar out of the way.
CustomizeGoogle has some nice features
Extended Statusbar
Fasterfox
That's odd, I don't even remember the last time FF crashed on me, and I have it open for over 8 hours every day. You might try uninstalling some (or all) of your plugins to see if it helps, I'd guess one of those might be causing the crash (fasterfox sounds a likely culprit to me!).
use FF at home, never crashes. use IE at work, it's like a 16 year old girl on a cell phone....
stumbled upon this page recently and tried out it's memory config suggestion for FF.. works pretty cool!
http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2005/12/23/quick-firefox-tweak-free-mem/
Forecast Fox - weather in your browser -love the five day forcast
IE view - very needed for some sites
Map This - is a must - if you highlight any address online it will open a new tab and google map it
Tab Catalog - shows thumbnails of each tab
Sage is a great lightweight RSS reader
If you do any web development
Web Developer toolbar - is a must
MeasureIT
Colorzilla
Remove Cookies
View Source Chart
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on December 21, 2006, 10:31:50 PM
use FF at home, never crashes. use IE at work, it's like a 16 year old girl on a cell phone....
hahahaha, niice.
I don't mess too much with the add-ons. I prefer yahoo widgets when it comes to all the FUNish type stuff. I do pretty basic web browsing, and I love FF, especially its tab option stuff. I know the tabs aren't really addons, but they are pretty much what made me fall in love with Mozilla.
IE is good too, but I just prefer FF. I don't know about the new IE, but I think the older one was more susceptible to viruses and trojans and all that trash.