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My Firefox

Firefox has for a long time now been the browser of choice for me. For quite a while I had the impression that I was keeping it pretty lean and not adding in too many extensions but it they just seem to keep creeping in. Here is my current list:

  • Colorful tabs: The description for this goes "Colorul Tabs colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface". While I agree with the first part, you can make your own mind up about the last claim in this sentence. Still, it is a useful add-in.
  • ColoUnReadTabs: Marks unread tabs in red-bold-italic allowing to easily identify them. Well.. having a tab with a red-bold-italic title almost forces you to click on it to get rid of the red-bold-italic.
  • DOM Inspector. Probably useful to developers but I never use it.
  • Download statusbar: "View and manage downloads from a tidy status bar". This one is pretty useful but takes up too much space at the bottom of the window for me. Will probably disappear off my list soon.
  • Forecastfox: My weather station. For some reason I just really like it.
  • IE Tab: "Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox". Definitely in my top 3. There are a couple of sites I have to access in IE and this goes some way to making that a more pleasant experience.
  • lori: "For tracking the life of a request". Gives me useful information on how long a page takes to download etc. Very useful but the only problem is there seems to be a bug in it. The seconds/milliseconds timer seems accurate enough but the minute timer seems stuck on 30 minutes so every page seems to load in 30m (x)s (y)ms. Now I realise that broadband in Australia is pretty poor but really...
  • Mozcc: "Provides an interface for viewing embedded Creative Commons Licenses". This is disabled at the moment as it won't work on current versions of Firefox but it was a truly useful extension. I hope some work gets done on it.
  • Sage: A useful RSS/Atom aggregator.
  • Tab Effect: For those of us that wish we had a Mac this provides a lift to an otherwise dull Windows interface.
  • Tab History: "links opened in a new tab retain their history". Very useful.
  • Undo Closed Tabs Button: " Add a toolbar button to undo closed tabs". Again, very useful.
I'd love to know what others are using. Cheers.

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