[Bubba]

It's all good

http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power.html

[Palomides]

It's all moved

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power-surfing/

[Control freak]

This is mentioned in the comments at the bottom...

Fed up of having to switch browser when FF doesnt render youre page properly? IETab will open an IE browser inside Firefox.

Why do I need this - you may ask (apart from the fact FF doesnt render alot of Microsoft pages properly)? Well for starters, FF doesnt pass active directory credentials to intranet sites, IE does. This means that when you browse to a page, youl probably have to enter your user name and password every time, which is a bit of a pain in the ass.

Bring on the regex URL filter in IETab. By using a regex you can automatically filter for you intranet site and not have to add each page manually - this will probably look something like

http://[^]+./

though you may have to tweak it a little bit

[Johnny Brown]

Word y'all the man Jim has just given me a major pc upgrade. I've just installed Firefox but can't find my favourite extension which opens links in a new tab when you click, hold and then flick the mouse sideways...

[Johnny Brown]

Ok I've found it - not as simple as it was last time though.

Get all-in-one gestures, open extensions, highlight, right-click, click on 'options', allow left-clicking, find open links in tabs, change to a simpler gesture, apply.

I don't why I'm telling y'all this as I'm about as backward as they come on this shit. If all goes to plan I might have broadband by november...

Damn, just discovered I need that right-click forum tools things too...

[Johnny Brown]

One for SA Chris, Dense and any other curmudgeons: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1045/ :Banish andi_e, R-man, FOAM forever.

[unclesomebody]

One for SA Chris, Dense and any other curmudgeons: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1045/ :Banish andi_e, R-man, FOAM forever.

A most excellent addon! For those without Greasemonkey it's pretty excellent so check that out too. Very powerful tool.

[Bubba]

One for SA Chris, Dense and any other curmudgeons: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1045/ :Banish andi_e, R-man, FOAM forever.

Errm - we're not using phpBB anymore...

[Johnny Brown]

mm and it isn't compatible with the latest firefox either... sorry.

What are we using? I thought I'd found my right-click forum tools but it doesn't have the smilies on, and now I'm not sure if [size=12]it'll work anyway[/size] Any ideas?

[Bubba]

We are using Simple Machines, or SMF for short.

If you change that size bbcode to size=12pt, then it will work.

The best thing for forums imho is the Firefox bbCode extension - not sure if that's the same one you're using.

[squeek]

Word y'all the man Jim has just given me a major pc upgrade. I've just installed Firefox but can't find my favourite extension which opens links in a new tab when you click, hold and then flick the mouse sideways...

Or you could always use the build in function of clicking the middle mouse button/scroll wheel if you have one, this will also open a link in a new tab.

[Johnny Brown]

If you change that size bbcode to size=12pt, then it will work

Just checking to see if it worked... have now ditched that extension in favour of yours - which works for colour but not size.
Cheers, Bubbs - that was the one I was looking for all along.

Is there a userhide for SMF? I quite fancied the idea of reliving the old days by hiding every single user except Dave, James and Bubba. I doubt it would make Justin come back though...

No, I don't have a middle button, scrollwheel. I quite like flicking the mouse anyway

[Bubba]

No user hide I'm afraid, not in the standard build anyway - wouldn't it make half the topics read like gibberish anyway?

From an admin point of view, a mod that hides all posts (to the whole forum) from a certain user would be a sure fire way of getting rid of trolls. Trolls soon get bored if nobody rises to the bait. Actually, I might investigate this.

[squeek]

On another board I use the Hide User mod works by stil showing that the user posted something, but instead of displaying the actual text it shows a link to show the post.

I use it on a couple of users because they post very repetitive posts, and if they do actually post something of interest then it tends to me quoted and commented on.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Just started using http://www.stumbleupon.com/ with Firefox.

Its well weapon. Finds interesting websites you probably wouldn't normally find.

These are a few I stumbled upon...
http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html
http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/default.htm

http://www.neave.com/planetarium/

but....

 

[butters]

Another useful extension that is not listed as far as I can see is Morning Coffee - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2677/

To quote their blurb:

"This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.)."

bluebrad

[Paul B]

is there an add-on that allows tabs to be opened without clicking File->New Tab....

and yes I know that the above makes me very lazy

[butters]

Either:

1. Install the following - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1456 - just puts a little button next to the tabs on your browser.

2. Go to Toolbars --> Customise - there is a button there for adding a new tab - bit bigger than the aforementioned add on but it does what it says on the tin.

Alternatively if you have Tab Mix Plus installed then buried in the config options somewhere is a radio button that duplicates number 1 - PM me if you need instructions for this as I am not going to waste a couple of hours trying to find where it is and then writing up the results. 

Lastly Ctrl + T is the keyboard short cut for a new tab.

bluebrad

[Johnny Brown]

Ctrl + T every time. I've added the feature that makes them nice colours and another that gives a progress bar in each tab.

[Bubba]

CTRL-T or just double click the tab bar

[Paul B]

Thanks for the replies. I'm really getting into all this open source stuff it's really good. Not quite up for changing my OS though 

[slackline]

Not quite up for changing my OS though  :-[www.fsf.org

No need to change your OS, one of the underpinning principles of the Free Software Foundation is that the software should be platform neutral.

[Paul B]

I meant changing for an open source OS instead of using XP...

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Sweet plugin for browsing images.
http://www.piclens.com/

Works with Firefox and others.

[Bubba]

I found that once the novelty of Piclens wore off, it became a bit annoying. Also not great on an older computer, it made my firefox very slow.

[slackline]

I found that once the novelty of Piclens wore off, it became a bit annoying. Also not great on an older computer, it made my firefox very slow.

Discovered a nice, less obtrusive firefox plugin for browsing flickr called FlickrFox this morning.  Pretty handy so far, time will tell whether it actually gets used though.

[slackline]

Anyone who uses http:// and Firefox may find the Firefox plugin useful for adding, viewing and real-time syncing of your bookmarks.  Adds some handy buttons to the toolbar at the top, one of which opens a side menu of your delicious tags sync'd in real-time  .

[butters]

Anyone who uses http:// and Firefox may find the Firefox plugin useful for adding, viewing and real-time syncing of your bookmarks.  Adds some handy buttons to the toolbar at the top, one of which opens a side menu of your delicious tags sync'd in real-time  .

Much prefer Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer for simple synchronisation of bookmarks and it also does passwords if you want it to. Depends if you want or need the additional functionality of Delicious really.

bluebrad

[slackline]

Much prefer Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer for simple synchronisation of bookmarks and it also does passwords if you want it to. Depends if you want or need the additional functionality of Delicious really.

That looks handy too, although I prefer (and have used for a year or two now) Delicious.  I really like the concept of applying "tags" to data for categorisation.  I find it awkward and frustrating to have to classify my bookmarks (and emails) into a rigid hierarchy that folder-like categorisation imposes as one web-site may be related to several different areas (or indeed an email might fall into multiple categories.  By having tags you can let one copy of the message appear in multiple groups/clouds of tags as opposed to having to remember which one location you saved it too (or alternatively duplicating it in each folder/section that it might belong to).

Much of a muchness though its personal preference.

[butters]

I never got on with Delicious when I tried it - all the tagging and the like just didn't seem intuitive to me but then I am one of life's more disorganised people so that probably explains a lot.

A word of warning though to anyone who installs Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer! Once you get it fine tuned it works seamlessly but in the early stages make sure that you back up your bookmarks before you start it going as it wipes out everything that you haven't set to be synchronised when it reconnects. Obviously this is not a problem if you are just using it on the one machine and you set it to back up everything and but if (like me) you move across multiple machines it will replace the bookmarks on the second machine with a copy of the original synch.

bluebrad

[butters]

While we are on the subject of backing up things a couple of other really useful extensions - FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) backs all extensions in Firefox (and a lot more besides if you want). Use it in conjunction with OPIE (Ordered Preference Import/Export) which saves all of your extension preferences.

bluebrad 

[slackline]

Handy plugin to signing unsigned SIS files that you find for you Symbian OS mobile phones.

[slackline]

Getting into this greasmonkey lark and found the following two plugins that work with Simple Machines Forums (the PHP-based forum software that sits behind UKB).  They basically autoload subsequent pages into your current when you get half-way through scrolling through the current page, which is pretty handy for very long threads. 

Unpaginate SMF threads
Unpaginate pagination microformated web pages (dependency required by the above).

[Bubba]

which is pretty handy for very long threads.

for raping the server

I'll give this one a try...

<edit> works well but only loads the next page when i'm right at the bottom of the current one. Shouldn't have any adverse affects on the server at all, I misunderstood what it was doing.

Greasemonkey is very cool.

[dobbin]

Article about making Firefox faster

[slackline]

Article about making Firefox faster

  Good find dobbin

[Bubba]

The "Increase the Speed at Which Firefox loads pages" tips by altering the pipelining is not a good idea - it just overloads the server. It's constantly given out as a tip to improve speed but is really quite a selfish way of doing it.

Are the others worth trying?

[slackline]

The "Increase the Speed at Which Firefox loads pages" tips by altering the pipelining is not a good idea - it just overloads the server. It's constantly given out as a tip to improve speed but is really quite a selfish way of doing it.

Ahh, ok, hadn't thought about things from the "other" side. Makes perfect sense though, although couldn't apache/lighttpd/whatever be configured to just ignore multiple requests from the same IP? Or are the specifics of your web-server software beyond your control?

[Bubba]

I'm not sure how easy it is to limit requests in that way - I'll have to investigate further...

[slackline]

More tips on improving Firefox speed its primarily on GNU/Linux systems and involves tweaking how the database (SQLite) that is used in the background to store the history and various other settings can be improved in speed as its currently a major I/O (Input/Output) bottleneck.  Instead of having this database on the HD which is relatively slow to read/write from/to, you use a temporary file system that resides in RAM which is much much faster.

Not sure how it much of it is transferable to M$-windows versions, but certainly step 1 is platform independant.

[butters]

This looks like it has promise some time in the future though it is not a direct replacement for Xmarks\FEBE\OPIE yet. When they get it sorted though it should be da bomb.

[slackline]

This looks like it has promise some time in the future though it is not a direct replacement for Xmarks\FEBE\OPIE yet. When they get it sorted though it should be da bomb.

Looks promising, hopefully they know something more about Fennec actually making it onto devcies other than M$-Mobile (timeline keeps on getting put back for S60/Nokia).

[slackline]

Kitten Block (redirects links to Daily Fail and Daily Express to cute pictures of kittens).

Kitten Block (Chrome)

[slackline]

Pocket 'Extension' foisted onto all Firefox users with questionable Terms of Service and background activity

[slackline]

Aside from various useful anti-tracking things like uBlock, HTTPSEverywhere, Self-Desctructing Cookies, Ghostery and such like this might be useful...


BullShit Detector


I'm always surprised when NewsThump/DailyMash articles get linked in Da News thread as whilst they're topical they are clearly satire.