I Love Firefox Extensions

Mozilla Firefox is the most powerful, add-on friendly browser out there. It has almost 3,000 extensions and it continually grows! It’s amazing how useful these tools are for the typical and power user. You have so many to choose from and most of them are great! Here are my personal favourites. I use these, so I know that they’re good.

FlashGot

When it comes to YouTube, I love collecting videos that I find very interesting. You can use FlashGot as a tool download any video, audio or media file from any website. This is powerful because it finds whatever media file is running on the website and allows you to download it. I’ve personally used this to download a few videos, Physics videos that I find really useful for the future, computer videos, spoken word poetry videos and all four Pokémon Origins episodes.

It’s stable right now considering I haven’t had any problems with it. One flaw that I find in this extension is that it doesn’t allow you to download MP3 files from YouTube. You can only download its actual type (videos will be video files, music will be audio files etc). Other than that, I recommend it!

Easy YouTube Video Downloader Express 7.0

What a mouthful!

This extension allows to download MP3, MP4, FLV and 3GP. It’s useful for me because I need music. MUSIC!

For those who love music, this should be a very useful extension for you. Also, it’s an alternative to FlashGot.

I do recommend it. I’ve only had one problem with it because it was one of the reasons why Firefox crashed once. It only happened once. After that, it’s been smooth sailing.

AdBlock

Everyone hates advertisements. It’s a stupid, yet profitable, way of getting people’s attentions. Most of the ads online are malware and viruses too.

AdBlock blocks all of the advertisements that flash, pop or annoy you when visiting a website. It also blocks advertisements on YouTube (including the ones that run before a video). Not only does this help speed up your browsing, it also “protects” you from possible website threats.

It also allows you to block ads yourself. If you see something that you think is an ad, use their blocking tool and delete it from your screen. Not only does it take it off, but it also sends it to the developers to check it out and see if it is an advertisement. Think of it as a “REPORT” button. It’s very useful.

Roomy Bookmarks

Bookmarks are handy because it’s an easy shortcut to a website that you often go to.  The Bookmarks toolbar (default for Firefox) shows both the logo of the website, but also its name. I think that takes up a lot of space on my toolbar. I have Facebook, YouTube, Wolfram, Tech Gum, WordPress, League of Legends, ODB, Bible Gateway — the list goes on.

You can modify the bookmarks to only show the logo, but that means you have to delete the name. This won’t help me when it comes to me actually looking at the bookmarks manager.

Enter Roomy Bookmarks. It only shows the logo of the website, without actually deleting the name and title. It may not be a big deal for some of you, but it’s pretty big for me. I like having a nice, clean bookmarks toolbar.

Classic Compact 

Classic Compact is a classic (ba-dum tsss). It lets you revamp your Mozilla 24 and make it look like it was when it was nice and clean. I like this look probably because I’m a huge nostalgia guy. Anything that can bring back old memories, I’ll do it.

With its toolbar features and icon customization, you have many options to choose from. This is actually a theme that comes with an extension. The theme designs the browser while the extension gives you the customization options.

All I need now is an Windows XP theme for my Windows 7 and I’ll be happy again.

My “Two Shades of Classic” theme that I customized myself. You can also see (here) the Roomy Bookmarks and Classic Compact theme for Firefox.

 These extensions are great! I love them!

Keep Chewing!

Mozilla Firefox 22

Recently, Mozilla Firefox sent out Mozilla Firefox 22. Of course, I downloaded it so that I can have the most up to date web browsing experience. I was wrong.

It’s so frustrating and annoying for me. I would be watching a YouTube video and it would crash. This constantly happened and I’m beginning to think that I should return to using Chrome. I still haven’t changed, however, it is an option.

For some reason (including Mozilla Firefox 21 and 20), the browser would always crash and each time I put my laptop on hibernate or sleep, once I resume my computing, Firefox would be slow to respond. At times, it would literally lag and crash. The Firefox “send bug” message box appears, asking me if I want to send a bug report to Mozilla.

Recently, I did a few tests. I took out a couple of my plugins and extensions (recommended by tPenguinLTG). It did not work. One thing I’m currently doing right now is using a different theme or appearance on Mozilla. It seems to be working. All I can hope for right now is for it to work properly.

Now, I’ll be reinstalling all of my plugins – only hoping that it won’t crash anymore.

Here’s a good article about Firefox and its logo changes by tPenguinLTG.

Firefox Changes its Logo Again!

Keep Chewing!