Recommended Firefox addons

[Shawn7656]

Photography related add-ons for firefox that I would suggest installing:
Exif Viewer: right-click an image and a small window will pop up with the available EXIF data. You usually need to find the original photo of course
Image Zoom: This app lets you zoom in on any image that you'll find online. Hold right mouse and scroll up or down with your scroll wheel to zoom. You can click the scroll wheel to zoom to original size, or right+left click to zoom to "full"
TinEye Reverse Image Search: Allows a TinEye search to be done one a photo with a right click context menu. Very useful if you don't feel like going to their website and putting in the URL. PS - if you've never used the site, give it a go, very useful for finding out if people are using your images)

Recommended apps in general:
AdBlock Plus: Something I have used at all times since getting Firefox is an ad-blocker. It does exactly what you think an "ad blocker" would do
Download Statusbar: Instead of your downloads opening a new window, they'll open in a clean looking status bar at the bottom of the window. Once done you can double click to open/launch your download
FireGestures: This app lets you navigate Firefox with gestures; this means you can hold right mouse down and drag your mouse in a specific direction or series of directions, and Firefox will complete a task. Default settings, you right click+drag left, and you go back a page, right click+drag right, you go forwards a page, right+up down is a reload. So on and so forth. Makes browsing a lot faster and easier. To open the options, and to see all of the commands, do a full counter-clockwise circle
WOT (Web Of Trust): This add-on will give you a user-made safety rating of almost every site on the internet. It will put a "badge" on links, and an icon near the URL bar telling you the rating using a color-coded system. Keeps you off of bad sites, and it's useful for telling if the "SUPER REPUTABLE HIGH RANKED" website you just found is really what it says it is. I've gone to sites boasting a list of "awards" to see that it had 30+ reviews by people saying what they ordered from the site NEVER showed up. Useful for when you're looking for the best deal on equipment.


Those are the main ones I use, skipping out on some other ones as I'm not sure if this thread will even matter to many people on this website. Let me know what you guys think, and feel free to make suggestions yourself.

All of these addons are available on the Mozzila Add-On site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

[BigFuzzy]

I don't have much to add (since you mentioned adblock which is only one I use I think) but I've been wanting to find more to use, so thanks!

I'm definitley going to use the d/l one and tineye since it's boring to have to enter the URL every time so the right-click is nice!

Thanks again, let's see what others have to add.

[Nicole]

I also use Greasemonkey and then use scripts that help customize Flickr.

[SwissJon]

Angry birds.. Oh damn.. That's Chrome..

Adblock
Firebug
IE Tab

To be honest though, unless I'm doing development work or going somewhere that has a lot of adverts, I tend to use IE because it's FASTER!!! (Seriously! )

[UlpilotSC]

I love adblock....
One I found that can be useful is YouTube Video Downloder. It's free, and put a "download this" button under YouTube videos, that will save the file to your computer. Since YouTube videos change all the time, there's a chance you might not be able to come back and check out a video again...

[Shawn7656]

@Nicole: I too use greasemonkey, though the scripts I tried for Flickr were outdated and didn't work well (one adds the "view in size" buttons under the picture so you don't have to click "action" "view in size" then your needed size)
There is a script that makes Facebook a lot better called "FFixer"
FFixer for Greasemonkey
It adds some really nice features to Facebook

Two more addons I find useful for Firefox:
Skipscreen: Skips captcha and waiting time on download websites like megaupload, rapidshare, mediafire, etc. If it can't skip the wait time it'll automate it for you and start the download as soon as the timer hits zero.
Personas: Most of you probably have this, but it's a fast way to theme/skin Firefox and make it look however you'd like. 1000s of options to choose from

@SwissJon: IE does go a bit faster in some cases (like open time) but it's just not for me. It's not safe, fails almost all benchmark tests online, gets slower speed rating for ********** usage than almost any other browser (by 3 or 4 times) and Microsoft is slow at patching HUGE security flaws with it. From my testing, Opera seems to be the fastest, but it doesn't have the customization Firefox has, and I always miss it when I don't have it

@ULPilotSC: I use DownloadHelper for that purpose, it pulls flash vids off most websites, and for the ones it doesn't work with, I found an addon that works with EVERY site I've ever tried (though it can be buggy and cut downloads off without getting the whole video) is "flv movie downloader"

EDIT: Why is the word java script starred out?? Can anyone explain??

[Jim Poor]

Better Facebook! is one I've recently been toying with. It kills a lot of the annoying behavior of regular FB.

[Shawn7656]

I'm gonna use that and FFixer now
I have disable a few features of either, but some features FFixer has that Better Facebook doesn't I really like such as adding a "log out" button, keyboard shortcuts, etc

[Izzy]

I always use adblock. Matter of fact it goes on the machine when I am setting it up before AV goes on

The exif one is new to me. I have been using it for today. It works on photos stored on photobucket but not on flickr images. There are a few other private domains that would not let me read exif from the file. But it was neat when it worked.

If you guys are doing web stuff you might want to look at firebug. It lets you see the source code at the same time as the web page and lets you edit in a temp way so you can see what killing various tables, functions and so does to or for the page. Also slick when you are troubleshooting a page.

[Shawn7656]

I messed with Firebug back in the Myspace days... It always made me laugh because there were ALWAYS coding errors on every page you went to