Firefox/Extensions

here are some of the Firefox plugins / Extenstions used by s23 WiKi members.

Sage

• Sage- is a rss feed reader, it opens in a side bar and intergrates with LiveBookMarks
  • Sage Home Page
    Mozilla Page

Statusbar Clock

• Statusbar Clock- is a nice little clock that show up in the status bar at the bottom of FireFox
  its fully configurable and such
  • Statusbar Clock Homepage

downTHEMall!

• downTHEMall- is a mass download extension, just right click select dta and down load all files matching your requirments
  ie select all .pdf's or .mp3's, very nice =)
  • downTHEMall homePage

Mozilla update Page

Adblock

• Adblock- filters out section form web pages, ie any thing coming from advert.server.com. You can use regX filters too
  check the Adblock forums out
  There are some nice very good filter's here filtersetg and instructions for filters another cool filter set is, fanboys filters
  • Adblock home page
    Mozilla update Page
  • Adblock Plus is an updated (and recomended) version of Adblock, whith site whitelisting among other things.
  • There is now a Beta Adblock Filterset.G Auto Updater

Web Developer Toolbar

• Web Developer Toolbar- very usefull toolbar for building and designing webpages. Especially when it comes to CSS, since you can see the effect of your edits to your stylesheet at once.
  • Web Developer Homepage
    Mozilla update Page

Spellbound

• Spellbound- A spell checker that works with text input boxes for wiki's forums and such.
  • spellbound home page

Image Zoom

• Image Zoom- Adds zoom functionality for images
  • Image Zoom home page

Wikipedia Editor

• Wikipedia Editor- Adds lots of function for editing Wikipedia, also works for other MediaWiki based wiki's ie this one.
  • wikipedia.mozdev

MozEx

• MozEx- Configure an external editor for editing wiki articles without copying and pasting them from the browser's text area.
  • To achieve that, you need to download the "MozEx" extension at http://mozex.mozdev.org/ and follow a quick MozEx tutorial.
  • The "MozEx" extension doesn't work properly on Mozilla Firefox 1.0. See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FireFox for a work around.
  • also see Wikipedia:Text_editor_support

ipv6ident

• ipv6ident- Mozilla Firefox extension to show the current IP Address in the statusbar
  • ipv6ident Zoom home page

==ChatZilla== -

• ChatZilla is an IRC client that is written entirely in JavaScript and XUL.
  • all about ChatZilla download
  • Hint if you want to load your chatzilla prefrences in to a new firefox profile, you need to copy the 'extensions.irc' preffrences for chatzilla from '$old_path/profile/prefs.js'. it's the lines begining with 'user_pref("extensions.irc.*' there could be some long lines so make shore you get them all... thanks to the frendly people on [1] for this hint.

Greasemonkey

• allows users to install user scripts that modify specific web pages
  • project homepage
  • weblog about greasemonkey
  • userscripts.org - a lot of usefull scripts