Wired News links to great extensions for Mozilla/Firefox

ignatz · 07-13-2004, 12:09 AM

Wired News has recently published two great articles on Mozilla/Firefox and the extensions that make these browsers so great. Both are recommended reading if you use either one. I'm a dedicated Firefox user and I hadn't heard of some of these!

Building a Better Mozilla and More Extensions for Mozilla

Colebuddy · 07-15-2004, 07:16 AM

Thanks for the helpful links. I had a chance to look at all of them and more and beefed up my web surfing experience. Thanks to MobileRead.com for pointing me to Mozilla/Firefox as well as much-needed the extensions.

gadgetguru · 07-15-2004, 05:40 PM

Same here. Been using Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox for awhile but until I read about extensions through Wired News' first article around a week or two back, I don't know they existed. Now I had quite a few of them. AdBlock is really a bandwidth saver!!!

Extensions works like Bookmarklets. I loved those bookmarklets then but they fell out of favor and most were not updated for newer browsers.

cbarnett · 07-15-2004, 09:34 PM

I must say, I've been using Firefox or a week or so now, and I won't be going back to IE any time soon. Even straight "out of the box", it's a fine browser. Add in the extensions available, and you can't lose!

Craig.

Bob Russell · 07-16-2004, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbarnett

I must say, I've been using Firefox or a week or so now, and I won't be going back to IE any time soon. Even straight "out of the box", it's a fine browser. Add in the extensions available, and you can't lose!

Craig.

I agree! I'm amazed at how easy the switch was and how enjoyable it is to use. There are a couple of things that I miss, though:
1) It's harder to keep bookmarks in synch between IE at work and Foxfire at home
2) I miss my iSiloX toolbar button add-in.

So unfortunately I still have to go to IE when those situations come up to add a bookmark or clip with iSiloX.

ignatz · 07-16-2004, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobR

So unfortunately I still have to go to IE when those situations come up to add a bookmark or clip with iSiloX.

I recommend the "IE View" extension for this. When I was using iSilo regularly, this did the trick for me. Within Firefox/Mozilla you just right click on an open area of the page or on a link and select "Open in IE". Sure it's one more step, but it's pretty easy.

Being a recent convert to Plucker, I'm enjoying the "Pluck This" extension that runs in Moz/Firefox. I always wondered why iSilo didn't make a plug for this line of browsers. Perhaps as people move away from IE they'll put one together.

cbarnett · 07-18-2004, 08:12 PM

It might be worth a post on the isilo forums asking when something like this might be available as an extension for Firefox....

Hmmm.....

Colin Dunstan · 07-25-2004, 02:46 PM

Another great Firefox 0.9x extension is GooglePreview: it inserts thumbnails of web sites, Amazon products, and stock charts into the Google search result page.

http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

07-13-2004, 12:09 AM	#1
ignatz mechanoholic Posts: 582 Karma: 1000217 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sarasota, FL Device: Nook STR/iPhone 4S/EVO 4G	Wired News links to great extensions for Mozilla/Firefox Wired News has recently published two great articles on Mozilla/Firefox and the extensions that make these browsers so great. Both are recommended reading if you use either one. I'm a dedicated Firefox user and I hadn't heard of some of these! Building a Better Mozilla and More Extensions for Mozilla

07-15-2004, 07:16 AM	#2
Colebuddy Splash Mobile Addict Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Where Kings Reign Device: Zire 72	Mozilla Bulked Up! Thanks for the helpful links. I had a chance to look at all of them and more and beefed up my web surfing experience. Thanks to MobileRead.com for pointing me to Mozilla/Firefox as well as much-needed the extensions.

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gadgetguru Addict Posts: 214 Karma: 6370 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Asia Device: Tungsten T5	Same here. Been using Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox for awhile but until I read about extensions through Wired News' first article around a week or two back, I don't know they existed. Now I had quite a few of them. AdBlock is really a bandwidth saver!!! Extensions works like Bookmarklets. I loved those bookmarklets then but they fell out of favor and most were not updated for newer browsers.

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cbarnett MR prodigal son Posts: 1,085 Karma: 1083739 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	I must say, I've been using Firefox or a week or so now, and I won't be going back to IE any time soon. Even straight "out of the box", it's a fine browser. Add in the extensions available, and you can't lose! Craig.

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