Post you favourite or new and useful Firefox add ons here !

I might be a bit behind the times with this one, not sure.
Ive just found a neat little add on that speeds up web browsing.
Its called Cool Previews and can be found here
Cooliris, Inc. | Beyond the Browser

This add on makes an icon appear when you hover over a link or image link, click the little icon and you get a preview of the page for the link. So now if I see a thread here I want to peek at I can get a preview without having to go into the thread or open another tab etc.
Makes Google searches much quicker, you dont have to go to the page to see if its what you want, you can preview it from the results page.
Its cross platform so it works on Mac,Win and Linux.

Any other useful add ons you come across post them here!

I only use three add ons

Adblock Plus
Stop Autoplay
User Agent Switcher

The first two are self explanatory, the third fools the website that you are using another browser so that Firefox can be used with online banking sites that only support IE

I use:

Pic viewer. i think this might be mac only but it's really cool for viewing images.
Downloadhelper. Rips video from the net.
User agent switcher. Cheers thetty:) (or was it melvbot? can't remember but cheers!)
And Boost. Not available yet for ff3 but on the old one it used to jazz up your facebook a little.

The amount of add ons is staggering. Problem is it means wading through loads of pages to check any out. I came across cool previews on iusethis.

My new favourite is the footiefox add on.

you can choose whatever leagues you want to show and you get this cool cheering alarm and a pop up score when any team scores....very handy on a Saturday evening.

^ like it! have you got a linky?

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Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

User agent switcher. Cheers thetty (or was it melvbot? can't remember but cheers!)

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Have you got it added to your toolbar?
Saves having to click through the tools menu to activate it:)

^^


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/725

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Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Downloadhelper. Rips video from the net.

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I use that one too, its great.

I also use downloadthemall - a multiple item downloader the quietly runs in the background if you are downloading many documents, attachments and so on.

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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

you can choose whatever leagues you want to show and you get this cool cheering alarm and a pop up score when any team scores....

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Does it do Aussie rules?

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very handy on a Saturday evening.

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Do the other people at the pub get annoyed.... oh hang. I see.

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Originally Posted by Indoexile

Does it do Aussie rules?

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no, but they go as far down the divisions as Luton Town.

thanks to Emperor Tud for the footie fox recommendation in an earlier thread.

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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Quote: Originally Posted by Indoexile Does it do Aussie rules? no, but they go as far down the divisions as Luton Town.

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Rugby then?

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Originally Posted by Indoexile

Rugby then?

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I'd have thought the title 'footiefox' was quite self explanatory.

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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

I'd have thought the title 'footiefox' was quite self explanatory.

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doesn't sound all that useful then...

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Originally Posted by Thetyim

Have you got it added to your toolbar? Saves having to click through the tools menu to activate it

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I have now.:)

I wish it told you what browser you were rendering in somewhere in Firefox's footer like IE Tab does.

^Dont quite understand that. Whats is for?

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Originally Posted by melvbot

Whats is for?

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Basically, you can see how different websites display using different browsers, without actually having to use different browsers or more importantly, different versions of different browsers.

This is useful if you are a website developer or just want to use a badly written website that will only work in IE6.

Thinking further about this, if you can get Firefox to render like, say, Opera 1, why can't you code your website to force a browser to render to always display like your preferred one?

Im guessing that you would need IE installed in the first place then. I do a bit of web jobbying myself but on a Mac so might be useful.

The torrent search toolbar is nice as it allows me to set up access to email sites, so no remembering passwords/logins. Just click on the email icon when the number changes and you're straight in.

^^Thanks for Footiefox, a bit of fun.

that cooliris add on is absolutely brilliant.

it's one of those that you'll wonder how you ever managed without.

Its one of those you should at least try just to see what it does. Its good for google searching, dont have to nav away from the results page.
One thing I miss from Safari is a thing called Inquisitor. When you do a google through the field next to the address bar it brings up the results but clickable so you dont have to go to the search results page. Gives you the top 5 or so results that can be clicked and you're straight to the page.

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Originally Posted by melvbot

Its one of those you should at least try just to see what it does.

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it's better than that.

i only open a thread now if i want to post in it, i can review it first.
a massive time saver.

i need to spread some green around but will get back to you.

Theres a good set of options as well so you can set it to open on hover without click etc and open the link youre viewing in a tab.
Ive just done this post from inside the preview !

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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i only open a thread now if i want to post in it, i can review it first. a massive time saver.

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good for the post count, huh??