Cool Firefox Themes and Extensions

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:06 am

Post your favorite Firefox add-ons here and ask for ones that suit your needs. There are tons of add-ons, so sometimes you can never find the one you are looking for.
Here is one I'm looking for, some way to have instant messenging (yahoo and MSN) in firefox, pretty much integrading Gaim into firefox.
Here are some I like. IE tab, CustomizeGoogle, Full Screen Homestar Runner, Gmail Manager, Forecastfox Enhanced, NoScript, Crash Recovery, and Adblock Plus.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:13 am

Extensions I have installed:

GreaseMonkey (with a script that replaces the Newgrounds text ad with a download link, and another which adds a download link to YouTube)
FoxyTunes
AdBlock
AdBlock Filterset.G Updater

Themes:
The original one (duh)
One that makes FF look like old-school Netscape

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:37 am

ill have to do i from memory cause on this POS PC i only have foxytunes on my good one i have

cutemenus v2
foxytunes
chatzilla
crash recovery (and session resume too)
always on stop button
DTA (DownThemAll)
downloadembedded (for getting stuff embedded in sited like flash movies and music etc)

thats all i can remember off the top of my head im sure there are some i forgot

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:48 am

Mimetype Editor
FoxyTunes
Duplicate Tab
Tabbrowser Preferences
Iget
SteamPowered Forums Menu (Disabled - not compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.4)
Greasemonkey
ChatZilla

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:21 pm

Adblock Plus
All-In-One Sidebar
Archive Search
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
Tab Mix Plus

And then I just customize the heck out of the default theme to make it nice and streamlined.

There is no way to have Yahoo or MSN in FF, although they may be in dev (I haven't seen any). I know there are IRC, Skype, Jabber and AIM extensions, but that is it.

@anotherperson: You can get IE into a tab by using IETab instead. I think it might have been forked from IEView (I remember having the same problem upon update of the extension) but am not sure.

Wikipedia has a nice article on the subject, although it is by no means authoritative.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:00 pm

i have lots of extensions, i'll * the ones i really like and/or use a lot

adblock
forcastfox
pagezoom
1-clickweather
image zoom* - no more sidescrolling for me

nuke anything* -ditto
stumbleupon*
colorful tabs
disable targets for downloads*
download statusbar*
fasterfox
tabbrowser preferences
IE view
print image
submit to tab*
tab saver!*
full screen homestar runner
leet key
viamatic foxpose
yahoo mail notifier*
all-in-one gestures* -very nifty
noscript
crash recovery* -very useful if you use windows

paste and go
translate

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:45 pm

Dark Savant0 wrote:There is no way to have Yahoo or MSN in FF, although they may be in dev (I haven't seen any). I know there are IRC, Skype, Jabber and AIM extensions, but that is it.

So could I IM people that are using MSN or Yahoo if I'm using AIM (that Jabber one is for linux, I'm using XP)?

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:48 pm

vskid wrote:
Dark Savant0 wrote:There is no way to have Yahoo or MSN in FF, although they may be in dev (I haven't seen any). I know there are IRC, Skype, Jabber and AIM extensions, but that is it.
So could I IM people that are using MSN or Yahoo if I'm using AIM (that Jabber one is for linux, I'm using XP)?

No. They have to be using AIM.

Jabberzilla may work on Windows, although there are conflicting reports to this effect. I do not want to harm the editing I have done to this Firefox build, so I won't install to see, but it may work, depending on what the .so module actually does.

I would just recommend that you use a slimmed down IM client like Miranda or something if you want to use the least space possible. Other than that, I am not aware of any workarounds (unless you can login to an MSN-server through Chatzilla, but I don't know if any such servers exist anymore...).

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:37 pm

Or you could just use Meebo

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:45 pm

I have FireFTP, CrashRecovery, Fasterfox, and StumbleUpon. I have ForecastFox on my Portable Firefox.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:48 pm

I have IE!
I don't like firefox. The tabs just seem too invasive. IE works fine for me.

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:25 pm

Kurt_ wrote:I have IE!
I don't like firefox. The tabs just seem too invasive. IE works fine for me.

You can always set it to force all links to open in new windows. Or try Tab Killer

IE by default is ridden with bugs. So you will eventually HAVE TO upgrade to IE7, which, by god, USES TABS!

Might as well get used to tabs or getting rid of VISTA: Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans, Adware.

Mein Google-Fu is strong. Strong like Ancient Foot Stomping Alligator.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:40 pm

madc0w wrote:Or you could just use Meebo

That is cool, I wish I had known about that sooner. I use portable firefox on my usb hard drive, so its annoying to also open portable gaim..

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:28 pm

Well I personally dislike FF..

For 2 reasons.
1: Im used to IE
2: FF homepage loads SLOWER then IE..

If there was someway to make IE look like FF.. I'd use FF.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:13 am

Sword_Gun wrote:Well I personally dislike FF..

For 2 reasons.
1: Im used to IE
2: FF homepage loads SLOWER then IE..

If there was someway to make IE look like FF.. I'd use FF.

Don't you mean FF look like IE? I'm pretty sure I've seen some that do that, I just don't remember them because I don't want FF to look like IE.