My list of best Firefox add-ons
I have posted a list of best Android apps and a list of best free software. Since I’m an active Firefox user it seems fair that I post a list of my best Firefox add-ons that I really use.
As before, I will obbey a simple rule: I have to remember all the add-ons directly from ym mind without having to search for them. If I don’t remeber them, they are not that frequently used and therefore can’t be my favorite. There’s a catch, however. I use my browser so often that I can’t imagine it without some of the functionalities like mouse gestures that are enabled by extensions. Still, I will try to be objective and won’t include the add-ons that are just cool but I don’t use them at all.
After this has been cleared up, here’s the list with the add-ons and the links to their install pages on Firefox site in no particular order:
- Mouse Gestures Redox for quick navigation with my mouse
- Text Link for creating links from the text alone
- Ctrl-Tab for easier navigation between tabs
- FaviconizeTab for saving the space in my tab bar
- Firebug for finding the secrets of showed web pages (and sometimes to fix them if they have a mistake)
- PhZilla for seeing a page from someone else’s IP
- SeoQuake for SEO needs for my company
- FireShot for creating screen shots when creating web site reviews or when reporting bugs
- Web developer for turning things on and off, measuring page elements and quickly filling online forms
- Flashblock, almost invisible but effectively blocks all Flash content from web sites I visit
- IE NetRenderer for previewing my web sites in popular versions of IE browsers
- BugMeNot for viewing information on sites that need login and I need only that one info from them so I don’t want to register
- Dictionaries and spell checkers for Slovenian, English and German language
- dragdropupload for dropping the files on the file input fields instead of browsing for them with the Explorer
- Link Alert for changing the mouse cursor when hoovering over a link
- Print/Print Preview for enabling a print preview icon next to the address bar
- Resurrect Pages for viewing pages that are not available from available on-line caches (I even translated the add-on to Slovenian)
- Searchbar Autosizer for automatically resizing search bar as needed
When compiling this list I noticed that it includes a lot of add-ons that I couldn’t do without. I guess this is also the main reason why switching browsers is a complicated task for me – if I wanted to switch them at the first place.
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Directory of Slovenian web sites
There’s a site I run that has some interesting data about Slovenia (my country) that can be interesting for a wider international audience. It’s the directory of Slovenian domain names that lists a lot of registered .si domains, shows their owners and displays some meta data about each domain as well as about the sites that they host. You can find out if a specific .si domain is available or taken and if taken, who is the owner and what information is shown on the site. Visitors and domain owners can change the data displayed so they can provide more detailed information about the site than the one we can extract from the site automatically. This makes the directory even richer and the information more up to date and detailed.
If you decide to visit the site you’ll find out about the bookmarklet that you can install in your browser to have the data about any .si domain just one click away when browsing it.
If you want to explore the Slovenian web space than you’re also invited to visit Slovenian web site directory that organizes interesting hand selected sites in several categories. Feel free to browse through them or, if you own a Slovenian site, add your own to the directory for free.
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Slovenian Chinese restaurants
If you ever decide to visit Slovenia and wish for Chinese or Asian food make sure that you visit a site of all Slovenian Chinese restaurants I made. It lists all the restaurants, all the addresses and phone numbers (for reservation) and an interactive map for each location. I also publish links to their websites if they have them.
Bon apetit!
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