Firefox Addon Links
See also SlickMania's guide on useful plugins aimed at the Flock crowd
General Use
- Adblock Plus and Adblock page element hider
- Blocks banner ads, popups, unders, flash, overlays, interstitials...
- BugMeNot (From Roachfiend.com, you'll need to authorize this site to install the plugin)
- This generates generic but working logins for many news and web sites requiring you to log in (NYT, LATimes, etc.)
- Linkification
- Converts unhyperlinked URLs to links
- Nuke Anything (Enhanced)
- LEts you remove any object/image/table/etc. from a page - great for printing!
- CacheIt
- Lets you view cached version of a site using gCache and WayBackMachine
- TableTools
- Ever wish you could sort tables in websites like you do in Excel? Export them to CSV/XLS? Filter the list or search through it? TableTools does this and more.
- User Agent Switcher
- Lets you fool websites which think they require IE
- VideoDownloader
- Extracts video from most flash sites (e.g. YouTube)
- LongTitles
- Shows the full title of an image on hover, instead of cutting it off
- del.icio.us bookmarks
- Integrates your bookmarks with del.icio.us
- PDF Download
- Always ask whether to open or download a pdf link
- Forecast Fox
- View the weather forecast
- torbutton
- Easily activates/cancels use of your tor proxy, requires TOR
- GreaseMonkey
- Lets you download or create custom actions for websites, like removing custom designs from all myspace pages.
Web Developer Toools
- Web Developer Toolbar
- Everything you ever wanted to do as a webhead - live css editing, block/div/table outlining, resizing, etc.
- ColorZilla
- Extracts a color from images/backgrounds/text elements
- LeetKey
- Lets you encrypt/decrypt text, ROT13, and change case
- Firebug
- debugging tools for html, css, js...
- TestGen
- Record and replay actions (untested)
- WMLBrowser
- Lets you surf WAP pages
- MeasureIT
- Measure distance, width/height anywhere on a page
- Image Zoon
- Zoom in on any image
