My Firefox Extensions (web hacker edition)

Pushing the meme along with Oliver Thylmann and following my last extension-tagged post is my sizable Firefox Add-ons list!

  • Web Developer — essential; I <3 realtime CSS editing
  • Firebug — essential; the only way to debug; also see FlashBug for watching your traces() and FirePHP for eliminating error_log()‘s
  • Mouse Gestures — Hold middle click and motion the mouse right to go back, left to go forward, down & left/right to switch tabs, etc. ( also check out the QuickSilver mouse gestures module)
  • MeasureIt — get screen distances
  • ColorZilla — get screen colors
  • Live HTTP Headers — debug all forms/requests, great for reverse engineering
  • tabinta — essential for wiki editing!
  • Greasemonkey — hack the gibson! The only way one can even look at MySpace: script link
  • RealCosts — adds environmental costs to many eCommerce sites (from Michael Mandiberg at Eyebeam)
  • Torbutton — instant anonymization (FoxyProxy is also good for those who switch proxies a lot)
  • Adblock Plus — always funny to see fullpage ads on Salon et al that are just blank pages saying “skip this ad”.
  • and of course, del.icio.us bookmarks

Thanks to Oli I installed Live PageRank — I’ve also used SearchStatus which does Alexa too.

  • Default Firefox theme :)

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