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Now that I've been using Firefox for a while and like it, I'd like to know what mods/add-ons you guys recommend I get and why
PostPosted:Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:19 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Now that I've been using Firefox for a while and like it, I'd like to know what mods/add-ons you guys recommend I get and why</div>
The only ones i have are pop-up blocker, tab browser extensions, and the super drag and drop...
PostPosted:Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:07 am
by Flip
<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Pop up blocker - obvious on what it does.
Tab browser extensions - adds a tab menu inbetween Bookmarks and Tools that lets you change all sorts of behavior related to tabbed browsing. You can save tab sessions (like a bookmark but with it remembers a bunch of tabs), make links open in tabs, rearrange tabs by dragging them, put close [X]'s on the tabs, make new tabs pop up by double cliking empty space, change colors, and all sorts of other stuff. Makes browsing a lot faster with certain shortcuts.
Super drag and drop - if you drag a link to emtpy space it will open in a new tab, but will keep the focus on your current screen. Its great for FARK, i'll read through the stories and drag drop the ones i will want to read, close FARK and go through the 5 or 6 i opened.</div>
The only ones i have are pop-up blocker, tab browser extensions, and the super drag and drop...
PostPosted:Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:15 am
by Flip
<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Pop up blocker - obvious on what it does.
Tab browser extensions - adds a tab menu inbetween Bookmarks and Tools that lets you change all sorts of behavior related to tabbed browsing. You can save tab sessions (like a bookmark but with it remembers a bunch of tabs), make links open in tabs, rearrange tabs by dragging them, put close [X]'s on the tabs, make new tabs pop up by double cliking empty space, change colors, and all sorts of other stuff. Makes browsing a lot faster with certain shortcuts.
Super drag and drop - if you drag a link to emtpy space it will open in a new tab, but will keep the focus on your current screen. Its great for FARK, i'll read through the stories and drag drop the ones i will want to read, close FARK and go through the 5 or 6 i opened.
In the tab browser extensions i dont force links to open in new tabs since for things like tOWS it would be annoying to have a milltion tabs open to read threads, which is why i keep that option to behave the way the webmaster programmed it and use super drag and drop for things that i do want opened in new tabs.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:54 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Where do you get the addons?</div>
PostPosted:Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:27 pm
by Flip
<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extension ... nsions/</a>
Here. This is by far the coolest idea a web browsing company could have thought of. Most of these extensions are home made by users. I still need to read the descriptions for most of them to see if i should get more.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:51 am
by Sephy
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Googlebar, Ad bookmark here, ieview, and show failed URL</div>
PostPosted:Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:14 pm
by Sephy
<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>If you set all new tabs to open in the background, and just control click, its a lot easier then the drag and drop thing</div>
PostPosted:Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:47 pm
by Flip
<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Like Kupek said once, i like to one handed surf.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:04 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.tows.cc/cgi-bin/rpgboard/vie ... l">Firefox extensions thread</a>
This was discussed here...</div>