Techieवार्ता (TechieVarta) Blogs

Isn’t it great that FireFox has capability of to add addons? The FF’s addon site is full of features. Every one has their favorite set of addons. I have mine here is the list:

1. Wired-Marker: Every wondered if you can just mark a part of the webpage you are visiting and get back to the mark later. Something like a book mark but instead of book marking full page, just mark a part of the page. Wired-Marker is to rescue.
2. Delicious Bookmark: This addon allows you to sync you del.ico.us advertisement with firefox. This will allow you to share the same set of bookmarks on all the machines you work on. The biggest problem with delicious is that they don’t upgrade the addon fast enough when FF upgrades. So at time I am forced to use an earlier version of the firefox just so that I can use del.ico.us.
3. Stylish: Use stylish to change look and feel of any site. This works by adding a site specific CSS. For example, you want the page to look darker and save your eyes, just use stylish script. I need to write a seperate post of stylish.
4. Greasemonkey: Greasemonkey is like stylish but you can do much more then changing just look and feel.  This works by and adding a javascript which is run whenever you visit the specific site. There is a very large script library at usescripts.org. I need to write another post just on Greasemonkey scripts. These have become essential part of my daily browsing. For exampl, if you don’t like Google text adds, write Greasemonkey script.
5. NoScript: Scripts are evil. They open possibility of attacks and privacy compromise. Most sites work very well without scripts anyway. I will strongly suggest using NoScript and getting rid of scripts at several sites.
6. IETab: Even after so much FF usage, if the site does not provide IE supported randoring, use IETab and you will be able to dynamically change the randoring engine between IE and FF. Any of the FF tab can be changed by clicking an icon in the status bar.
7. ForecastFox: Don’t we all love weather? Use this to get live weather.
8. Adblock Plus: If you are sick and tired of advertisement on various sites, just use adblock and block out those advertisements. You can also block out other content. Anything which has a different object type then HTML can be blocked.
9. Adblock Filterset.G Updater: Community maintained set of adblock filters. This will cleanup most of the sites you regularly visit.
10. Download Sidebar: I hate the default FF download list interface. This addon provide a status bar interface to provide the list of downloaded files and their current status.