Firefox Extensions

Just added a few new Firefox extensions to my Firefox and to my list down on the right.

• Unread Tabs allows you to open up a whole set of tabs and the ones you haven't read yet are italicized. I like to open up a bunch of tabs all the time, and while I do get to all of them most of the time, I'm sure I've closed some that I thought I read.
• Flashblock blocks all Flash things from loading on a site. It displays a "play" button where the Flash object is and you can click it for it to start. This cuts down on initial load times and those annoying Flash ads sites use now. The Flickr zeitgeist is a Flash object and can slow down page loading, but I love that thing and I want it there on my site.
• PDF Download allows you to specify exactly what you'd like to do once you click on a .pdf on a website, knowingly or not. It will prompt you to download it, open it in a new tab, view it in HTML or cancel and not do anything. I hate clicking on something that I didn't know was a .pdf and then Acrobat starts loading up and bugging the crap out of me. Yes, I know that I can, for the most part, see what the file is by putting my mouse over the link or looking at the status bar at the bottom, but sometimes those bastards hide what it is.

Me likey Firefox.

And yes, Microsoft is including tabbed browsing in their next releast of Internet Explorer, but I'm sure it will suck major balls.

Comments

[Matt]

nice...I didn't know about the pdf extension, but am sure glad to have it now.

Other extensions I like:

Forecast Fox -- get the weather on your browser (with the spyware that many weather programs have)

Pagerank -- shows the google page rank of visited sites

I'm surprised you didn't mention BugMeNot, which is the BEST EXTENSION EVER, and which--if I remember correctly--you turned me on to (for those who don't know, it saves you from registering at sites that require registration, like nytimes.com, by storing usernames and passwords; with one right click, you're in).

[albert]

I'm not a fan of the forecast extension, not exactly sure why though and the pagerank extension never worked for me so I stopped using it.

And BugMeNot is already on my list of firefox extensions on the right hand side. This was just a post of the latest few that I added. I'm pretty sure I posted on BugMeNot awhiles back. And yes, it totally rocks.