What add-on's do you use in Firefox?

[Born2Jizz]

I think I use None. To lazy to check them out. :o

None.

pfft. google sucks.

but anyway. i dont use any.

:dito:

 

[316sherm]

I don't use any...I find that they slow down Firefox for me.
:2 cents:

 

[Straight Shooter]

The pin as app tab

 

[Born2Jizz]

I don't use any...I find that they slow down Firefox for me.
:2 cents:

:dito: Me too.

 

[rayman53x]

^second that

 

[squallumz]

i fucking hate that plugincontainer.exe that runs in the newer version whenever flash is on a site.

fucking slows me down. but i use older systems.

 

[CSkylar86]

I've been using these for sometime and they work well esp...when surfing porn sites

Adblock Plus
Bulk Image Downloader
Download Manager Tweak
DownThemAll
Element Hiding Helper For Adblock Plus
FireFTP
NoScript
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Xmarks

Along with FlagFox; and since I have AVG's Internet Security Business Edition, I have their addon as well.

With Google's intuitive link screener along with AVG:ISBE used in conjunction with Adblock Plus, Element Hiding Helper for AB+ and NoScript...It's definitely the Bee'snees.

 

[Connor Macleod]

I've been using Speed Dial and really like it, but I'd like to be able to have one of the tabs open as a folder. I don't think that's possible, so does anyone know of a similar plug-in that does this? I know you can create folders on the bookmarks toolbar, but I want something similar to Speed Dial.

 

[KillTheIndustry]

NoScript and Download Helper.

 

[ltlane777]

Ad-Block plus

 

[Automate]

Pterodactl was good at one point for downloading a series of images opened in tabs in a very simple manner. Open the pictures you want to save in tabs, run the add-on, select the folder and presto. Downside is that one has to select the folder every time (and manually click open all the pictures in tabs before that) when downloading or just set it to always use the one and the same folder (not really feasible). Manually selecting the folder is still a lot more convenient than the insane "right click -> Save image as" routine though.

I use Bazzacuda nowadays. It does the same but has a lot more functionality, such as automatically downloading to preset folders, skipping duplicates and downloading images straight from HTML pages. It takes some knowledge of regular expressions to get that set up correctly however, and in some cases it doesn't work at all (e.g. with galleries where the picture URL and the base gallery URL differ significantly).

For downloading a gallery's worth of images at once, I've used Flashgot. Bad thing is that it has begun to display some very irritating behavior lately, such as popping up the download dialog when I'm not commanding it to download anything.

I also use several Greasemonkey scripts to make adjustments to some pages that are practically broken (e.g. redirect removal because of the infinite redirect syndrome on some TGPs). I have also written some scripts myself but those are hackish, quick-and-dirty and difficult to maintain. Haven't made them presentable yet.

More add-ons listed in Pornzilla. Link is in my signature.

Edit: Sorry Connor, I don't know a Speed Dial replacement that would function like that (yet).

 

[Connor Macleod]

Sorry Connor, I don't know a Speed Dial replacement that would function like that (yet).

Thanks for the response.

Right now, I'm using Mutirow Bookmarks Toolbar and Speed Dial. I like the Multirow, but it has two downsides. First, I'm using 5 rows, so I'm sacrificing screen real-estate. Second, when I first started using MRT, it was a horrible eyesore as all the stuff on the toolbar looked like a jumbled mess, but I've since learned to add spaces onto the descriptions to make the entries line up in rows, so it looks presentable (look below).

As for Speed Dial, the only thing I don't like is that every time I click a window, it opens in the current window (not a new window or new tab) and then I have to back up when I want to see everything again.

I'm also using Custom Buttons which is nice, but not very descriptive.

 

[Automate]

SortPlaces. I must have over 10000 bookmarks and hundreds of folders. This add-on enables sorting them based on name, url, keywords, description, view count and so on. It can also periodically automatically sort them, but with such an amount of bookmarks I've not used that at all. Sorting by name has been extremely useful to me.

Edit: Heh, checked the amount of bookmarks: it's around 14000. It takes around 20 seconds for the extension to work over and sort all of those.

 

[Connor Macleod]

SortPlaces. I must have over 10000 bookmarks and hundreds of folders. This add-on enables sorting them based on name, url, keywords, description, view count and so on. It can also periodically automatically sort them, but with such an amount of bookmarks I've not used that at all. Sorting by name has been extremely useful to me.

Edit: Heh, checked the amount of bookmarks: it's around 14000. It takes around 20 seconds for the extension to work over and sort all of those.

I'm not sure how many bookmarks I have, but I do know the bookmark file is over 21 meg, so I'm sure there's at least several thousand in there. How do you count them?

I do find your post interesting as it reminded me of this one problem I have with Firefox. When doing a search, it doesn't consider the name of a folder, only the links. Because of the folders, sub-folders that I have, I really want to be able search by folder name as I sometimes forget where I put it.

Does anyone know of some plug-in that will consider folder names in the search?

The way I have to do it now is piss-poor. I go to File, Open File (bookmark file is what I open) and then Edit, Find. This is cumbersome at best and I'd like a better way.

 

[Automate]

I'm not sure how many bookmarks I have, but I do know the bookmark file is over 21 meg, so I'm sure there's at least several thousand in there. How do you count them?

I have a very rudimentary and kind of stupid way to do that. I go to "Show all bookmarks", enter http in the search field, press ctrl+a to select all (and prepare to wait for a couple of minutes) and see the count in the bottom: "13971 items". Make sure your bookmark backups are very current, you certainly don't want to be caught pressing the wrong button after selecting all your bookmarks or when you're getting anxious of Firefox turning unresponsive for a while.

Edit: Better way to do that would be something like installing sqlite3, going to the profile folder and doing

$ sqlite3 places.sqlite "select count(*) from moz_places;"

from the command prompt. That gave a count rather close to the one I mentioned before.

The bookmark file can get bloated. It's an sqlite3 database and needs vacuuming and re-indexing from time to time. Its size might not reflect the actual amount of bookmarks there at all. Matter of fact, I think Firefox initializes a 10 MB bookmark file just right after installation, even if it only contains the default bookmarks.

All right, starting to get somewhat off topic, trying to restrain myself now..

I do find your post interesting as it reminded me of this one problem I have with Firefox. When doing a search, it doesn't consider the name of a folder, only the links. Because of the folders, sub-folders that I have, I really want to be able search by folder name as I sometimes forget where I put it.

Does anyone know of some plug-in that will consider folder names in the search

Same problem, still looking for an answer too. I should really just get off my ass, learn to program full add-ons for FF (instead of just Greasemonkey scripts), make it by myself and submit to the Mozilla add-on site.

 

[Connor Macleod]

I have a very rudimentary and kind of stupid way to do that. I go to "Show all bookmarks", enter http in the search field, press ctrl+a to select all (and prepare to wait for a couple of minutes) and see the count in the bottom: "13971 items". Make sure your bookmark backups are very current, you certainly don't want to be caught pressing the wrong button after selecting all your bookmarks or when you're getting anxious of Firefox turning unresponsive for a while.

Edit: Better way to do that would be something like installing sqlite3, going to the profile folder and doing

$ sqlite3 places.sqlite "select count(*) from moz_places;"

from the command prompt. That gave a count rather close to the one I mentioned before.

The bookmark file can get bloated. It's an sqlite3 database and needs vacuuming and re-indexing from time to time. Its size might not reflect the actual amount of bookmarks there at all. Matter of fact, I think Firefox initializes a 10 MB bookmark file just right after installation, even if it only contains the default bookmarks.

All right, starting to get somewhat off topic, trying to restrain myself now..



Same problem, still looking for an answer too. I should really just get off my ass, learn to program full add-ons for FF (instead of just Greasemonkey scripts), make it by myself and submit to the Mozilla add-on site.

Thanks for the info. My bookmark file showed almost 39,000 entries.

Let me know if you find any plug-in that will search for folder names.

 

[Automate]

Thanks for the info. My bookmark file showed almost 39,000 entries.

Let me know if you find any plug-in that will search for folder names.

This is not a solution, but still kind of related to that problem.

When I search for links in the bookmarks organizer, it doesn't show the folder name where the link is located anywhere in the search results! Show Parent Folder fixes that by adding a column to the bookmark organizer that shows the name of the containing folder. However, it doesn't show the full folder path if there are several subfolders, only the name of the deepest level folder. It is not possible to sort by this column either. You can then directly go to the folder where the link is by getting this extension: Go Parent Folder.

:rant:

I am actually getting somewhat irritated at Firefox developers for being unable to make these sorts of essential features from the start. I would like a full folder tree structure being displayed, just as in any good file manager in the bookmarks organizer, but apparently some fucking retards there have thought something along these lines: "Nobody will ever use more than one level of folders or have too many bookmarks. We don't need this to scale to anything more than that."

Makes me want to put a shotgun to the crotch of any developer who willingly ignores these sorts of scaling issues! :violent:

 

[Connor Macleod]

This is not a solution, but still kind of related to that problem.

When I search for links in the bookmarks organizer, it doesn't show the folder name where the link is located anywhere in the search results! Show Parent Folder fixes that by adding a column to the bookmark organizer that shows the name of the containing folder. However, it doesn't show the full folder path if there are several subfolders, only the name of the deepest level folder. It is not possible to sort by this column either. You can then directly go to the folder where the link is by getting this extension: Go Parent Folder.

:rant:

I am actually getting somewhat irritated at Firefox developers for being unable to make these sorts of essential features from the start. I would like a full folder tree structure being displayed, just as in any good file manager in the bookmarks organizer, but apparently some fucking retards there have thought something along these lines: "Nobody will ever use more than one level of folders or have too many bookmarks. We don't need this to scale to anything more than that."

Makes me want to put a shotgun to the crotch of any developer who willingly ignores these sorts of scaling issues! :violent:

It irritates me too. Maybe we should just leave a suggestion/complaint on Mozilla's site. I think I'll try looking for that later...

 

[Connor Macleod]

Well, I submitted a feedback to Mozilla about their flaw in bookmark searching. Whether it does any good is anyone's guess. Be warned, if you want to submit feedback, it won't let you unless you're running the latest version of Firefox.