Some Extremely Useful Browser Etensions & Utitlies

Thanks for the pointers Justin!


Foxylicious (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=342):
Adds your delicious bookmarks as hierarchical menus in firefox's bookmarks menu.

miniT (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=176):
Re-order tabs by dragging-and-dropping. Unfortunately, this doesn't play well with other tabbed-browsing extensions -- but I'd rather have this than any other tab extension.

LiveLines (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=324):
Hijacks firefox's built-in rss-sniffing capabilities to make the little Live Bookmarks in the bottom-right corner of the browser link to the subscribe screen of the feed reader of your choice.

ColorZilla (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=271):
Gives you an eyedropper from which you can snag the color-code for any color on screen.

Download Statusbar
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=26): Adds a little progress indicator for downloads in the statusbar of the main browser window.

Header Monitor
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=575): This only works if you also have the Live HTTP Headers extension
(http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/) installed, but I use it to display the
Last-Modified date (for web pages that have this info) in the browser statusbar.

Open Long Url
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=132): Makes it much easier to open a long url that's been wrapped by email relay.

TargetKiller
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=495): I _hate_ when I click on a link and it opens up in a new window. This extension fixes most of those links so they open like normal links.

The two web-apps I'd be lost without are del.icio.us and bloglines.com, which allow me to access (or share) my bookmarks and blogs from any location. Then there's the password-generator page/bookmarklet (http://angel.net/~nic/passwd.html), which automatically generates a unique password for a given site using a master password, meaning that you only have to remember one dang password for all the different crappy sites you have to register on.

Some other web-apps I've started using more recently are:

yubnub.org: allows you to search lots of different sites via a single searchbox; also comes as a firefox search-box plugin (http://yubnub.org/documentation/describe_installation); if I could just customize the command names -- or get a dropdown for those I use most -- this would be indispensable

bugmenot.com: login credentials to nytimes.com and other sites that require login for no reason but to harvest your email address

reddit.org: it's kind of a user-maintained list of the most interesting articles on the web