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Anthony Lieuallen of Arantius.com has a great page called Awesome Firefox Extensions. If you’re new to Firefox or extensions, or are interested in finding some great new one, definitely head over there to check it out.
One extension not listed that I would personally recommend is Target Alert. This extension adds a small icon next to any links that aren’t to standard web pages. For example, it inserts a small envelope icon next to any email links, and a small PDF icon next to any .pdf links. (The PDF alert is particularily useful, since loading a PDF is slow sluggish and I often want to avoid it all together!) It offers alerts for many file extension (you can turn on and off as needed), and also alerts to links that will open new windows. The new window alert is great, because I then know to press alt-shirt to force the load into a new tab instead of a new browser window.
Anyways, I’ve been meaning to publish my recommended list of extensions, but this will have to do for now.
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Arantius April 9th, 2005 - 5:21 pm
Thanks for the recognition =)
I’ve actually used target alert before. I found, over time, that the little pictures got in the way more than they helped. That’s why Firefox is so great, everyone gets to choose which extensions they like =)
Spontaneous Monotony May 10th, 2005 - 1:00 am
Another reason why Firefox kicks IE’s ass
Extensions. Firefox comes with all the ’standard’ browser functionality- viewing all normal page types including XHTML (oops, IE doesn’t have that), CSS support (oops, IE doesn’t have that), flash/java/etc. plugins, tabbed browsing (oops, IE doesn’t ha…