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Ask HN: your favorite obscure Firefox extensions?
Working definition: anything that's not the first page of popular extensions.
Autocopy - automatically copy selected text to clipboard
Googlepedia - wikipedia results along with google searches
AutoPager - breaking my own rule, but this one's awesome
- prakash 17y agoAS Number: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2072 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2072
- Herring 17y agohttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/too-many-tabs-firefox-add-ons-to-manage-a-tab-jam/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/too-many-tabs-firefox-add-ons-t... That's what i use to manage 50+ tabs. The list is missing firegestures & swifttabs. links: AutoCopy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383 Googlepedia - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517 AutoPager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
- ujal 17y agoTabs Open Relative https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1956 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1956
- Herring 17y agoI'm fairly sure tab mix plus does that.
- Beanblabber 17y agoAbduction: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408 Let's you take a picture of a part of your page by rearranging a square. Helps so you don't have to go to paint or photoshop to crop your recent screenshot.
- vrandom 17y agoIt's what i came here to recommend :) May i also add ImgLikeOpera (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672). Avoid downloading any pics on a page. My 3gb per month mobile broadband limit here in the UK goes soooo much further with it.
- windsurfer 17y agoDid you know that Autocopy just changes "clipboard.autocopy" in about:config to true?
- Herring 17y agoThe extension must precede that functionality. I remember stealing some code from it years ago & it was more complex.
- leed25d 17y agoclear fields, a small but very useful extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2408 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2408
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoFavourite: PDF plugin for Mac OS X. This uses the mac's native pdf rendered and makes viewing pdf's a joy rather than a pain. http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ Shameless plug: If you are a google docs user you might want to look gdocsbar [http://www.gdocsbar.com http://www.gdocsbar.com]. an update with some more features like download, is on the works and will be released shortly.
- epe 17y agoIf you do any web development that involves web metrics (Google Analyitics, Omniture, etc.), Omnibug is quite useful: http://www.rosssimpson.com/dev/omnibug.html http://www.rosssimpson.com/dev/omnibug.html
- DarkShikari 17y agoTree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 An absolute must if you love having 50-100+ tabs open. Oddly enough, it works rather well with Tab Mix Plus as well.
- LogicHoleFlaw 17y agoTree-style tabs + Colored Tabs extension is a joy to use. You'd think that Tree-styled tabs would not play nice with other tab extensions but the author makes large efforts to interoperate.
- fergusjdawson 17y agowow. 50-100 tabs? I find it useful with less than a dozen.
- Herring 17y agoDoes it really work better than tab mix plus' multi row? I've used both & I'm not entirely convinced to switch.
- paddy_m 17y agomozrepl This has so much potential. You can telnet into your firefox instance and run javascript commands, on documents and on the chrome. When I get some time I have ideas about integrating this with emacs (there already is mozreply.el , but it does little more than telnetting in).
- dave_au 17y agoLeechblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 Lets me set fairly fine grained time limits on various sites that I'd otherwise spend too much time on.
- travisjeffery 17y agoI use Safari more than Firefox these days. But when I use Firefox I quite like Vimperator, especially since I can write simple but functional extensions for it easily.
- chaosmachine 17y agoColorzilla: http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/ http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/
- bmac 17y agoHide Menubar (alt to show menu bar) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762 Hide Navigation Bar (F2 to toggle nav bar) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8769 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8769 Both are awesome for netbooks. I find hide menubar nice to have even when I do have the space to spare because I use the menu bar so rarely.
- weaksauce 17y agoMouse Gestures Redox - Emulates Opera mouse gestures and now has rocker gestures for the mac. http://www.mousegestures.org/ http://www.mousegestures.org/ Speed Dial - Emulates the Opera speed dial home page. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810
- Herring 17y agoI used Mouse Gestures Redox for a long while then I switched to firegestures. I can't remember why exactly, I think something to do with speed & a larger library of gestures.
- drinian 17y agoRikaichan -- remarkably detailed Japanese - English dictionary (hover over words to show definitions) http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/ http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
- krishna2 17y agoLORI - Life Of Request Info Awesome plugin for quick/constant perf measurement. It shows how long it took the browser to get the first byte, the total time for page rendering, the total size of page and the total number of requests. For example, for this page, the stats are : 0.160s 0.600s 26.14KB 5 req
- zouhair 17y agoOpen In Browser : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207 Will give you the possibility to open a file (especially file that you are sure is text) in Firefox instead of downloading it.
- bagheera 17y agoTable tools - useful for sorting and filtering tables inline https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2637 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2637
- Raja_Selvaraj 17y agoSurprised that Vimperator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891) has not been mentioned yet. Vim for the web !
- smoofra 17y agoI loved Hit-A-Hint so much I forked it when the original devoper abandoned it. http://elder-gods.org/lol http://elder-gods.org/lol
- wlievens 17y agoLong Titles used to be essential for reading xkcd, but I think the current Firefox build has it built-in.