My Installed Firefox Addons

Last updated: 15-Apr-2013

My favourite Firefox Addons.

  • Adblock Plus:The best tool anti-advertising.
  • Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper: If Adblock was not enough, welcome the definitive addon for it: Select HTML elements (including attributes) to hide!
  • CacheViewer: Fast and easy way of tanking a look at your browser cache.
  • Clearly: Clean any webpage or blog post to nicely read it with very simple a layout.
  • ColorZilla 2: Color-picker (for designers and web developers).
  • DeAdfLy: Remove this webpage ads before going to the real redirection.
  • EPUBReader: Use Firefox to easily read epub files and ebooks.
  • Facebook Disconnect: Stop Facebook web tracking through like buttons and cookies.
  • FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension): A fantastic tool to backup and restore your themes, addons, preferences...
  • FireBug: THE Javascript debugger for Firefox.
  • FireCookie: A Cookie manager, in the form of a Firebug extension.
  • FireDiff: Track DOM and CSS changes in webpages with this Firebug extension.
  • FireFTP: A complete FTP client inside your browser!
  • FirePHP: Addon for FireBug that gives useful information when debugging PHP webpages.
  • Flashblock: Block by default all Flash and Silverlight items, substituting by placeholders that when clicked load the original content.
  • Greasemonkey: A must-have if you develop or at least use greasemonkey scripts. Allows a detailed scripting control of everything.
  • iMacros: Record, edit and playback macros to automate most actions you perform in webpages.
  • Live HTTP Headers: If you need to check, edit or replicate HTTP headers, this is your addon.
  • Mr Tech's Toolkit: Adds tons of configuration options to Firefox (including Addon incompatibility override).
  • NoScript: Disables by default all javascript execution of web pages, allowing you to temporally or permanently allow execution of those you choose so.
  • MSDN Search Engine: To avod having to Google for namespaces and members.
  • PageSpeed: Google's performance advisor (very similar to YSlow). Requires FireBug extension.
  • Twitter Disconnect: Remove Twitter tracking via the tweet button.
  • URLParams: Shows and allows you to alter GET/POST url parameters in a sidebar.
  • User Agent Switcher: Quickly change your browser's User Agent string.
  • Web Developer: Another must-have tool for web developers. Tons of tools and advanced features.
  • YSlow: Performance advisor for tunning up any website. Requires FireBug extension.

For a few links on how to tune-up your Firefox browser, check my post on Tweaking Firefox.

To activate H.264 support on the browser (no codec done, decoding performed by the guest OS, right now Win7+), activate "media.windows-media-foundation.enabled"..

And if you, prefer FireBug to the default FFox inspector, you can disable it goig to "about:config" and setting to false the following two keys:

  • devtools.inspector.enabled
  • devtools.styleinspector.enabled
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