Cool Extensions: The Link Farm

Highlights

Tab Effect Addons
Amuse and annoy yourself for a couple of days with a 3D tab switching transition effect. (Windows only) NOTE this breaks TabAway 1. Since without TabAway web surfing hurts so much, please wait until TabAway 2 is available. You will, won't you?

ScrapBook Home / Addons
If for some reason you're not using it yet (such had been my fate for quite a long time), you might want to try! Scrapbook is a library of the web pages you save, and a web page saving tool, which saves web pages more precisely and reliably than Firefox, including all the embedded files, and offers a productive interface to manage the archive.

Having disabled all the extension's menus, I just drop icons onto the sidebar (also from the Traction Control's panel; unfortunately the @ part is not used. Sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about doing something about this.) The ultimate tool for a stealthy collector.

I'm not completely clear how I choose what to bookmark, and what to scrapbook (the extension also has "normal" bookmark support, but I'm not sure if there's much sense in using it instead of the browser's function, or instead of bookmarking with online services; particularly with the new bookmarking engine coming in Firefox 3 — the current implementation indeed turned out to be unreliable for some people).

CuteMenus - Crystal SVG Home / Addons
Icons in menus accelerate finding the command you're looking for. (The current version doesn't actually use SVG Scalable Vector Graphics.)


Utilities

Screengrab! Home / Addons
Save a page as an image. Flash animations, even (in the Java mode). Quite impressive.

keyconfig Home
Allows changing conflicting or simply inconvenient keyboard shortcuts. I think it could be a part of the browser (see the related bug).

PasswordMaker Home / Addons
I fear that now that I've recommended this, I'll be hacked by some of the crazy women pursuing me. What can I do though, the world exists thanks to heroes.

Locationbar² Home / Addons
The future of the Firefox's address bar.

FoxClocks Home / Addons
Now I really have all this in my head, but that's what taught me ;-). It might become very useful again, should I come into contact with some unusual timezone one day (or the previous day, in there, actually). This won't however help in case of other planets or dimensions :'-(((


1337 Hackers' Tools

Stylish Home / Addons
A convenient way to tweak and experiment with web pages' appearance and the browser's interface, if you have some web development experience. (I not only use it to load my default ergonomic stylesheet for the web, but also for example to disable spurious entries in the context menu.)

Console² Home / Addons
Allows to filter errors reported for web pages and extensions. Features a nice JavaScript command prompt.

Extension Manager Extended Home / Addons
Doesn't really do much, to say the truth. In the older Firefox it did more, though I can't remeber what ;-). Anyways, I sometimes like to use the menu command it adds (the command opens an extension's source folder).

Html Validator Home / Addons
The web code validators don't really help anywhere as much as you're being told. This one is also not very small and not very fast, so it is disabled most of the time, to keep the source view window simple. Works well when it seems that validation might help.

JavaScript Debugger Home / Addons
I mostly can't figure out how to use it, but it was very useful at one occasion. (Quite slow.) (Also known as Venkman.)

Leak Monitor Home / Addons
For extension developers. To identify other extension developers who feed on people's memory!

Live HTTP Headers Home / Addons
Sometimes useful in web development.

NoScript Home / Addons
Giorgio Maone's popular extension, which I use for speed, to block ads and Flash, as well as for the supposedly educational punishment of enabling scripts one by one to make a website work. Non-real men may choose YesScript [Addons], which I however haven't used, of course. (Jason Barnabe is also the author of the aforementioned Stylish. Recently, he's organizing the forthcoming new Mozilla support websites.)

Permit Cookies Home / Addons
Helps keep the cookie list short, and keep yourself more aware of the workings of some of the websites you use. Generally, cookie blocking is less relevant in terms of privacy these days, when various technologies of data storage are introduced to Firefox; there have always been ETag and Flash spying anyway; not to mention visited-link-color spying.

View Dependencies Home / Addons
The idea of adding a new tab to the Page Info window is quite a good one and works very well for displaying the information which this tool gathers (a list of files loaded by a web page). I hope the author will sort it out with the completely different Page Info window which will come in Firefox 3.