Loading ...Now that we’re all using our shiny new FF3 browsers -. erm… we ARE all using our shiny new FF3 broswers aren’t we? - I figgered I’d share some of my favorite add-ons. I’ve done this before, but my list has changed. More of my extensions are geared toward work these days, so maybe some of these can help with your productivity.
No-Script: This is one of those browser-condoms of which I spoke in the comments of the previous post. My work demands that I do lots and lots of surfing (woe is me, forced to perpetually surf the net like some cyber-Sisyphus), so I need a little added protection. No-script keeps scripts from running on a page, until you give the go-ahead. Without it, I’d probably have about a billion trojans by now, and in cyberspace, a trojan is definitely not a condom.
Flash-block: Flash can just be fucking annoying, especially those bright jittery ads, so this’un blocks flash and gives you the option to play it if you really wanna see it.
Ad-block Plus: Blocks ads. Oddly enough, I don’t block the Google ads. I find them amusing. Especially on this site - Google can’t decide what the hell kind of ads to serve here at SP.
Tab Mix Plus: Yeah, this is the one that Mojo and I wax poetic over. When I have it installed, I tend to take it for granted, but when I can’t use it, I feel like I’m stumbling around in the dark covered in novacaine. FF simply isn’t usable without TMP. Please note that TMP is not yet compatible with FF3. The developer is working very hard on it. Until the official TMP release is ready, you can pick up a dev-build at his forum that works very well with FF3.
Web-developer: Does just what it says. Its a neat little collection of tools for web-development and testing.
Grease-monkey: Allows you to customize your favorite sites and applications with scripts and CSS. Kicks ass.
Colorful Tabs: At first I installed this because it sounded purdy, but it turned out to be damned useful for work. If I have a load of tabs open, and one of those tabs contains something vewy vewy important, I color that tab red so I can refer back to it quickly (and so I won’t close it by accident).
Split browser: I don’t use this too often, but sometimes it comes in very handy if I have to refer to a particular page frequently.
Clippings: Absolutely indispensable. I keep snippets of frequently used text and code in this bad boy, and I can paste in a snippet with a quick keystroke. There’s some serious short-cuttage in this thing. Its great.
Gmail Notifier: If you’re a gmail user, this is very handy. It notifies you of new mail in multiple gmail accounts. I don’t have multiple gmail accounts - I have enough trouble keeping up with one. But I do like the notifier. You’ve got mail! (It… doesn’t say that. Unless you want it to).
ReminderFox: I’m never ever gonna use a full-fledged calendar or organizer. I’m just not that organized and never will be. My Google calendar just languishes empty until I make up some weird holiday to put on it (like the wankening). But ReminderFox comes in handy. If anyone needs reminding of stuff, its me. Now if I could just remember to enter stuff into the ReminderFox.
ScribeFire: A truly nifty little blog-editor that just gets better with every release. And I’ve noticed that the better it gets, the more Richard the Previous complains about it. If you blog, you must have this add-on.
PMOG: Yeah, I know. Its not work, its a game. But its a passive game that I can play while I’m working. It doesn’t require a lot of conscious attention. I rack up points while I’m researching and every once in a while, I plant a mine on a site I hate (I wouldn’t recommend any pmog players visit the McCain campaign site, or God Hates Fags). Conversely, I hide treasures on the sites I like. Like SP.
And in case you’re wondering which search engines I have loaded in my search box, its Google, Wikipedia, Thesaurus, Etymology Online, Webster, Etsy, Amazon, eBay and Creative Commons.
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Hey! I was just going to complain about ScribeFire! It keeps telling me my password is wrong, but it isn’t, I tell you! It isn’t! I remember my password!
Don’t I?
Ha, ha, just reading that list makes you wonder… Cyber agent?
I had a programmer friend who went to the doctor complaining about a little stiffness of his hands. “What did you do?” Said the doctor. “Ohww.. just finished a computer program with over 2 million lines of code.”
He left the doctor’s with both his hands in huge blocks of plaster. “I know you computer types. This is the only thing that seems to work.”
He told me this when i met him; two pencils tied to his plastered hands, trying to type on a keyboard.
Bas, I love that story. Absolutely hilarious.
Thanks for awesome FF3 add-ons list. I’m going to go check those out. I found a cool one, too. It’s called Clipmarks and it allows you to selectively copy or print items on a webpage. I like this because I often just want the text and not the 17,000 ads on a given page. Yay for FF3!
Great story Bas! I can relate, though I don’t think I’ve ever written quite that many lines of… anything! Yipes…
And I’ll be using the term cyber-Sisyphus pretty much every day from now on!