Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 4, 2005 22:01 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
Parent article: Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Google preview is fairly useless - they are Alexa.com images archived at some point in the past...the image is *not* a "lookahead" at the actual target page.

How about....

BugMeNot - access to cached usernames/passwords for umpteen account-access sites?

Web Developer - great tools for dissecting pages

User Agent Switcher - for those blockhead sites still "demanding" IE...only insofar as reading the UserAgent string.

LiveHTTPHeaders - more debugging goodness

NukeAnything would be PERFECT if it would just remember what elements i want nuked per url...fairly useless for it to be on-demand only

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Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 4, 2005 23:38 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (1 responses)

LiveHeaders doesn't work with FF 1.0, alas. But it's priceless, and Web Developer is quite useful as well.

Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 5, 2005 7:03 UTC (Sat) by acristianb (guest, #1702) [Link]

Hmm, don't know what you're talking about. It works like a charm for me (FF 1.0 LiveHeaders 0.9, Windows XP and Windows 2k).

Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 10, 2005 16:59 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link]

Cookie Culler is one of my favorites. Mark a very small number of cookies as protected, and then clear out all the others with a single button. Duplicate Tab, Single Window, and Flash Click to Play are the others that I really can't live without.

Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 11, 2005 2:39 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] (1 responses)

"User Agent Switcher - for those blockhead sites still "demanding" IE...only insofar as reading the UserAgent string."

I never cater to such idiotic designs. Unless you absolutely have to have access to such a site, please refuse to distort statistics by altering the UserAgent string. Even then, please email the "webmaster" of such a site and point out that the World Wide Web is supposed to be based on platform-agnostic standards. IE doesn't comply.

Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 18, 2005 16:12 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

If it's a site where you would otherwise spend money, go further; buy elsewhere, at a site that supports your browser. Feel free to tell the site's owners (not the webmaster) how much business they've lost out on by not supporting non-IE browsers.

Web monkeys can win the IE-only argument when they can claim that 90% of people use IE, and the other 10% are insignificant; when management believe that the non-IE users represent a significant spending power, that argument stops holding water. After all, Mercedes-Benz drivers are less than 10% of the cars on the road; it makes very little sense however for a petrol station to turn away Mercedes-Benz drivers.