Posted on 06/22/2011 6:26:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce
a few weeks ago I downloaded one of the high 4.’s. I didn’t like it so I went back to the early 3’s. In a week or so I might try this 5 depending on what this thread has to say.
Actually, I gave up on Ghostery a long time ago: it nuked way too much actually necessary content. Probably 10% of my pages wouldn’t work any more.
For me, the best addons for FF are:
zoomtoolbar (fantastic for folks with eyesight issues)
Adblock Plus with a few of the Fanboy and Easylist subscriptions, one of which is an anti-tracker.
Tab Mix Plus
IE View
Flashblock
Downloadhelper
StatusbarEx
ViewAbout
Also, MozBackup is a great program for backing up and restoring FF and Tbird configurations once you figure out one or two eccentricities.
Thanks catnipman, I look forward to trying them out.
Great idea. I could use that for a certain poster who posts about the parentage of Republican presidential candidates in just about every thread mentioning a Republican presidential candidate.
Same here. Much quicker and I really like the tabs at the top of the toolbar - much easier to see what I have open.
I did as well. We’ll see how it runs...
Try DownloadHelper. It allows the download of video off YouTube and other sites. I have a lot of video from old TV shows I’ve downloaded and watch. Fun stuff.
Link for Xinha Here! 0.17 doesn’t work. Get a ‘page not found’ sheet. Also, it comes up empty when going through add-ons search.
So how do you prevent the memory leaks?
Can you be more specific? A search through the addons for “DownloadHelper” resulted in many choices.
Same here. So far, so good.
One of the reasons I’m still using Firefox 3.6.18 is the problem with addons not being compatible with the upgrade. Further, with the slowness and crashes reported with version 4, I think I’ll stick with version 3 for a while, at least until version 5 is proofed a bit longer.
The add-ons that I find most useful with Free Republic and other non-HTML bulletin boards are BBCode and BBCodeXtra. They allow one click posting of URL’s, images, bold, italics, etc. Also, Word Count Plus which allows me to not violate FR’s excerpting rules (1/3 of total article words or 300 words, whichever is less) when preparing an article for posting.
Other ones useful to me are Tab Saver (restores tabs if you accidentally close the Firefox window), and Tab X which gives each tab a close button.
I was given help with the incompatibility of add-ons with never Firefox versions by installing Add-on Compatibility Reporter which will identify incompatible add-ons but allow you to continue using them at your own risk, of course. Here is the information on this add-on:
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/01/firefox-add-on-compatibility-reporter-force-add-on-compatibility/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
FYI - you can put the tabs back in their familiar position at any time by going to the View menu and selecting - Toolbars - Tabs on Top (check or uncheck). There’s also a nice feature at the right of the tab bar that lets you view all open tabs in a group and then select from among them.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xinha-here/
Xinha Here! 0.17
by Hypercubed
Portable WYSIWYG editor! No matter what site you’re visiting you can launch a WYSIWYG right in your browser.
Wow! Thanks for the FRPFE mention. I just added it. I love it!
Thanks for the link. I’ve added it, re-booted Firefox, and I can’t find it. How do you activate it? My add-ons link show’s it’s operating...
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