Comments on: My Current Firefox Setup

By: Am renunțat la Google Chrome « Blogul lui Alex Chiri

Am renunțat la Google Chrome « Blogul lui Alex Chiri — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:34:24 +0000

[...] articolul celor de la ghacks.net m-am gândit să dau și eu o șansă la Firefox 3.6, mai ales că mi se părea că Chrome se [...]

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3 Infaltables Extensiones de Firefox | GrupoHidalgo.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:38:31 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:39:38 +0000

I can use it just fine ;)

By: Sridhar Katakam

Sridhar Katakam — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:30:40 +0000

Martin: How can you use Firefox w/o Tab Mix Plus?

Mouse wheel scroll to switch tabs, switching to last open tab when closing a tab, double clicking on a tab to close it etc…are very useful.

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Tecnología: 3 extensiones para FireFox « ¡FORWARDEANDO la noticia! — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:06:02 +0000

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3 Infaltables Extensiones de Firefox | arturogoga — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:33:09 +0000

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By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:29 +0000

@Crodol, the need is not the word, Firefox runs well without extensions, but these are helpful. As Martin stated, choice of extensions depends on the user’s requests. The list itself was formatted with an extension called ‘MR Tech Toolkit’ ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/421 )

By: Daily Review #22 | The Queue Blog

Daily Review #22 | The Queue Blog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:31:09 +0000

[...] A FireFox setup – some interesting bits like Multi Links. Once I figure out if I can get Ubiquity to become part of my workflow I’ll post my setup. There were a few doc commands for Ubiquity for Rails and Ruby but they were against the old API, does someone have new ones? [...]

By: Crodol

Crodol — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:25:05 +0000

@Transcontinental

How did you get that need list of all installed things?

By: Crodol

Crodol — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:07:39 +0000

It would be interesting to know your SETTINGS, i.e. Tools > Options …
and if you use any about:config customisations.

By: supermamon

supermamon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:34:39 +0000

You may want to look at Compact Menu 2. Works like Tiny Menu but you don’t have to move everything else up to the menu bar. You can move the menu to the toolbar or the bookmarks bar instead.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:23 +0000

Dan, could be that it is hijacking the functionality :)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:06:42 +0000

@Martin: I wonder if installing the TabMixPlus add-on eliminates the bug you mention, as it allows dragging tabs to other locations. In any event, I have it installed and have no trouble with dragging tabs opening up new windows. It also offers lots of other tab-using goodness. :)

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:25:43 +0000

Yep I use Opera aswell. No need for addons to make it a secure and workable browser.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:42:32 +0000

Hum… well, I once had 78 extensions when I decided to clean-up: removed 3, then added 1: ouf!
Seriously, on those 76 extensions (running Firefox 3.5.5) not one I consider useless!
If you care to view the list, have a walk on the wild side:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5395/myfirefoxconfig.png

I just love’em :) Moreover, doesn’t slow down anything. Perhaps pulls up the CPU cycles a bit.

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:29:40 +0000

I just use opera. ;)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:37:03 +0000

Well it blocks all scripts from being executed on the page. And since most ads are using JavaScript I’d say it comes close. Just give it a try ;)

By: mums

mums — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:33:59 +0000

“I personally prefer NoScript over Adblock Plus”

Does NoScript block ads as well as AdblockPlus do?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:25:44 +0000

Nice setup Mums. One of the greatest things about Firefox is in my opinion the option to customize the web browser to your liking. I personally prefer NoScript over Adblock Plus as I think that the former is more powerful and adds more to overall security.

By: mums

mums — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:11:22 +0000

Well here is mine: http://i35.tinypic.com/2u4hvyt.jpg

My setup is very minimal as you can see, I removed everything that is not necessary like the google search bar or the bookmarks toolbar. It only remains two line containing the menu, some icons the (long!) address bar.

My addons are:
- AdblockPlus: the absolute most important (for me)
- Advertising Cookie Opt-out which permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie (Google)
- BugMeNot: bypass compulsory web registration
- Close n forget: close current tab and forget about the visit
- Download Statusbar: view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- Firefug: for web development
- Greasemonkey: do I need to explain?
- IETab: used for some situations
- Locationbar²: linkifies addresses in the location bar
- Multi Links: lets you openmultiple links at the same time (useful for me)
- Stylish: a user styles manager (used in facebook, netvibes, google and firefox)
- Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out: sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising
- Tiny Menu: classic…
- Tree Style Tab: show tabs like a tree (very useful for me since I usually have tens of open tabs)
- Ubiquity: use dynamic commands in firefox

I know, my addons’ selection is not very minimal and contains some that could be avoided but each one is needed at some point.
I’d be happy to know what you think.