Do You Use FireFox?
As an avid Firefox user, I love sharing my modified version that helps me do so much more than IE. If you have a favorite extension that’s not listed here, please post it in the comments. Some of my favorite extensions are:
CustomizeGoogle - CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
Google Preview - an extension that inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. Thumbnails are provided by thumbshots.org and alexa.com. I LOVE this extension. So many sites are just search engines that list links to your queries. I can tell by just looking at the preview thumbnails….
Google Browser Sync - Firefox loves the Google, and Google loves the Firefox! Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Download Status Bar - a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar. It shows you
More Tools Menu - adds another menu choice that stores all your extension additions. Unclutters the “tools” menu.
IE TAB - One of my favorites! You can run IE inside firefox. The site you’re visiting doesn’t play well with FireFox? With a click of a mouse you can switch the browser.
Colorzilla - Wonder what that website uses for their background color? Wonder no more! If you do ANY web design, this extension is a time saver!
Web Developer - The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. The one i use the most is the CSS editor.
Card Games - Cards is a collection of patience (i.e. single-player) card games for Mozilla Firefox. Included are: Aces Up, Black Widow, Canfield, Demon, Double Klondike, Double Solitaire, Grounds for Divorce, Fan, Forty Thieves, FreeCell, Golf, Gypsy, Klondike, Maze, Mod 3, Montana, Penguin, Pile On, Pyramid, Regiment, Russian Solitaire, Sanibel, SeaHaven Towers, Simple Simon, Spider, TriPeaks, Union Square, Wasp, Whitehead, and Yukon.
Performancing - I’m using Performancing to post this to my blog as we speak 
Performancing is an extension for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs. If you blog at livejournal, Deepest Sender is another good extension. Post to LJ right from your browser!
Spiderzilla - is a website downloader. I used this program when it was an open source program… back in the day. This plugin is amazing. I’ve downloaded entire sound effects, fonts, and plugin websites with this extension.
Unofficial Myspace Toolbar - The “(Unofficial) Myspace Toolbar” is an extension for Firefox designed to enhance the Myspace experience. Using the toolbar you can automatically log-in, instantly access your messages, view hidden comments, and much more!
And what good are these extensions if you don’t have the latest version? Thanks to the Update Notifier, you’ll always have the latest extensions! I likey.
I want to add one of my other favorites, Torrent-Search toolbar
. It might give some of you the creeps because it feels like one of the Malware toolbars that have been around forever. But it has multiple torrent searches and a really great email checker. It’s one that I wouldn’t recommond to everyone.
geeky stuff | admin October 7, 2006
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By Gwen, October 9, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
Here are the extensions I use:
Adblock Plus
Bloglines Toolkit
CustomizeGoogle
GMail Manager
Google Bookmarks Button
Google Notebook
Google Toolbar for Firefox
Greasemonkey
IE Tab
Livelines
MinimizeToTray
Tab Mix Plus
Update Notifier
Also, my brother gave me the idea, a while back, of making it mobile by installing FirefoxPortable on a flash drive and simply plugging that into the USB port of whatever computer you happen to be using.