Utilities that make our lives better

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:22 am

I've put on 2 firefox add-ons recently that are proving to be godsends.

Autopager lets you scroll down through multiple page websites -- like search results or forums like this or longer articles -- with clicking to the next page. You can go back and forth between them with ease

Xmarks (formerly foxmarks) lets me keep syncronize my bookmarks and passwords from my home and office computer so I don't need to export and take them over. All new ones can be switched automatically.

Heath Robinson · Post by **Heath Robinson** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:12 am

DownThemAll - I don't know what I did before I had this. Probably wasted a hell of a lot of time.
FireShot - Sometimes things need to be screencapped. Like, entire webpages. Good luck doing infinite canvas webpages using prntscrn and stitching.
Stylish - CSS can define what we can do easily in a great many cases. My TGDMB reply box fills a good 60-70% of my horizontal screen real estate now. My topic review box is at least twice as large as the normal one.
Greasemonkey - Download links for Youtube and Nicovideo videos are enough to justify Greasemonkey. I also have a bugmenot.com integration script, so I rarely need to register except when I want to.

Edit:
And for things that aren't Firefox-related

Lua - it's handy for task automation and shellscripting (I'm using Windows, so yeah).
- LFS - because Lua does not come with a Filesystem lib as standard.
- Lua for Windows - whilst I dislike what the installer does (I already had custom lua file context menu items), the module collection is rather complete, and it's all precompiled for Windows (the biggest problem with Lua modules is that they're generally source-only because a great many standlone interpreter users are Linux users).
Pandoc - does Markdown and HTML to PDF or LaTeX. (NB: I just found this, but it sounds awesome.)

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:18 am

Wow, I'm so lame. At first I thought this would be about things like plumbing systems, only to discover it's Firefox utils. That being said, YOINK.

I have Greasemonkey, though I can't for the life of me remember why I first got it. Probably to download youtube videos (see: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series) or possibly for an ad-blocker.

I currently have Ad Blocker Plus, because Flash ads with sound are really fucking annoying, TabBrowser Preferences (so that I could previously set an auto-refresh for every 3 seconds. I believe it was part of an insidious war waged against... someone or something. Probably an old "keep on de-friending someone on Myspace and their Friends count goes into the negates") and the British Dictionary, because the American one pisses me right off.

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:17 am

I personally love

Mouse Gestures (any will do): since I do a lot of stuff on a laptop it makes surfing a lot faster.
Download Statusbar: You can see all your current downloads at any time and access them easily.
Tabs Open Relative: While basic, this is awesome and I hate using Firefox without it. It keeps surfing as a branching thread of sites rather than a long list of randomly placed sites.

(Edit in bold- oops)

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:23 pm

I use Personal Menu (Firefox add on) to get rid of the menu bar and put it as a single item to the right of the address bar. I hate wasted space. Also, Vimperator is nice if you use Vim far too much and have a tendency to try using its hot keys in other programs.

Heath Robinson wrote:[*]DownThemAll - I don't know what I did before I had this. Probably wasted a hell of a lot of time.
[*]Pandoc - does Markdown and HTML to PDF or LaTeX. (NB: I just found this, but it sounds awesome.)

Nice; I've been needing a good download manager for Firefox. Also nice to see an useful project in Haskell.

Parthenon wrote:[*]Tabs Open Relative: While basic, this is awesome and I hate using Firefox without it. It keeps surfing as a branching thread of sites rather than a long list of randomly placed sites.

Yet another way to make Firefox more like Chrome ♥_♥

Gelare · Post by **Gelare** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:23 pm

Koumei wrote:Wow, I'm so lame. At first I thought this would be about things like plumbing systems, only to discover it's Firefox utils. That being said, YOINK.

Yep, same here. These look handy. I've got DownThemAll and Download Statusbar, both good.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:42 am

I have down them all, very handy.

I also have No Script and its a real suprise how many scripts some sites try to run.

I also use Password Maker. It takes a master password and the url to create a unique password for logging into a website. Now all my crappy accounts have different passwords without me remembering them all.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:54 pm

What does open tabs relative do, exactly?

-Crissa

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:16 pm

Open Tabs Relative:

Normally when browsing you have a horizontal list of all the tabs open. Then, when you open a new tab it opens at the far right of the list of tabs. Even if you were at the far left.

This is pretty stupid.

Open Tabs Relative opens the tab to the right of the current tab, and if you open multiple without changing tab then they all are created in order to the right.

Its pretty simple but hugely useful.

NoScript:

Yeah, its pretty amazing just how many sites have scripts running: sometimes you can have 10-15 sites trying to run scripts.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:50 am

For people who got addicted to chrome and then had to switch back to firefocks:
Chromifox Companion
Chromin Frame (nice in general as it saves space)
Google Toolbar (disable everything but the new tab page)
Stop-or-Reload button
Chromifox theme

And yes, I realize what a googletard finding and installing all of these makes me.