Microsoft guy talking about Firefox extensions? Huh?

Agree with Performancing. Trying out Peekko chat (not great so far but promising idea). Pleased with StumbleUpon and Foxy Tunes.

Couldn't live without: AdBlock (really good, works well, after a few weeks of using it you've hit most of the big names). Not sure I can MS incorporating it into the IE7 final though, that _would_ be big news!

Like: ForcastFox (shows me the weather in the toolbar). This works really well, and links through to AccuWeather for more.

- Linkification
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo....

- Filterset.G Updater
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo....

- Gmail Manager
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo....

WebDeveloper! it rocks my world. (will look at other ones mentioned, but that one is essential)

Here's my favorite Firefox Extensions:

Bookmarks Synchronizer SE
Bloglines Toolkit
Gmail Notifier
WebmailCompose
ForecastFox
FoxyTunes
All-In-One-Sidebar

And then Web Development tools:

DOM Inspector
Web Developer
View Rendered Source Chart
Html Validator

if you like Greasemonkey, then you'll love Platypus. Let's you right click anywhere on the page for easy altering and does all the greasemonkey coding for you. It even saves the greasemonkey script.

http://platypus.mozdev.org/

Performancing is surely the most useful extension I have. No IE7 for me without performancing - thank you....
:-)

I absolutely can't do without WebDeveloper and MileWideBack extensions.

Couldn't live without Scrapbook. It's cut down my printing by 75%. Use it to do my research on the net. Save the page. Can highlight important sections. Can add notes on the fly. Can add additional text in the virtual folders. Scrapbook makes archives of html files and produces an html index. A wonderful extension.
Used with all-in-one Sidebar for quick access.
WebDeveloper is very useful also.
And so are Flat Bookmark Editing and OpenBook to improve bookmarking.
Launchy is more useful than ieView 'cos it gives direct access to more programs (i.e. notepad, pix editor, html editor) apart from launching the file in ie.
Liked the idea of SessionSaver but its behaviour was unpredictable so now I use Bookmark all instead.

IETab
Download Them All
TabPreferences
WikiPedia Lookup
Adblock

So, Roberto, are you trying to telescope that IE7 will ship with 10 Firefox extension look-alikes that, of course, only work on Windows? Are we doing Microsoft's market research here?

Performancing, coComment, Delicious, GMail Manager

I think the key feature is the extension itself (regardless of what it does).

Here is the key difference in philosophy. Microsoft wants to sell me Disneyland where I'm expected to keep my hands and feet inside their car at all times while they drag me along some path they call "increased productivity".

Some of us (actually pretty much all of us) have other places we'd like to go - FF extensions gives us a way out of the car and lets us help ourselves. We don't fit in your IE 7 box. It doesn't matter what the extensions do - it matters that we can write and share them.

Here's the ones I use on a daily basis

http://del.icio.us/bruno1378/extension?setcount=25

Web Developer.

CCK

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/

Do a Microsoft customized version of Firefox :)

The Venkman javascript debugger is GREAT when developing javascript apps:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo....

see also here

http://www.drorengel.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c8...

Data Analytics, imdb Tag/Movie Toolbar, No-Referrer, Bookmarks Synchronizer, Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer, FareCompare, Download Embedded, Grease/Platypus, Kill Google Ads, FlashGot, NoScript, Amazing Media Browser, Fasterfox, ULPS, Forecastfox, Colorful Tabs, Foxpose (IE7 ripped that off), Html Validator, MediaPlayer Connectivity, PDF Download, TabPreferences, DownThemAll, Sage, GeoLocateFox, Cute Menus - Crystal SVG, Foxclocks, ImageZoom, Show IP, Adblock, Who is this Person?, DOM Inspector and Web Developer, Fastforward/Rewind Buttons, ODFReader, Formfiller and that's just for starters...can't recall all.

But then I am a bit edge casey, my tech-clueless mainstream user type sister has just the basics: Amazing Media Browser, Fasterfox,, Forecastfox, Colorful Tabs, TabPreferences, Adblock, ImageZoom, Foxclocks. Amazing enough, she installed them herself. ;)

Themewise, Noia 2 always come back to, BlackJapan and Qute off and on.

Oh Chatzilla too...and more.

here are mine -
http://konsblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/firefox-ex...

Why aren't you using IE7?

I don't think you should be allowed to use Firefox - or post about it. I mean, you tow the company line about IE7, you know I installed IE7, it CRASHED.

Now it isn't as if I am running this trivial application on an operating system that the same company wrote... oh I am! LOL!

Now Firefox has crashed on me many times before. They called it the dark age of 0.7 and 'OMG lok he is usiung a nightly build!!', and verily the heathen masses with wail and gnash their teeth until 0.8 came along, and it was pretty much plain sailing until 0.5

I uninstalled IE7, which then did more damage and broke MSN! Yey! I only do this to galvanise my comtempt for Microsoft.

Aaaanyway - why did you put the 'put ie in firefox' extension?

I want to know - when, and by when I want to know where, as in what sites... do you use that feature?

Why don't you exclusively use IE7?

Greasemonkey is without doubt my favorite. Performancing sucks and I hate it. Other than that I use Adblock, Flashblock, Web Developer, FireFTP (Mediocre) and Sage (great RSS Reader) and there was this extend firefox contest announced. Winners coming soon!

print: why don't I exclusively use IE 7? Maybe because it's in beta? Maybe because Firefox extensions do some stuff that isn't available in IE 7? Maybe because I want to keep up to date on what a competitor is doing?

Anona: IE 7 won't have this functionality. Which is why I'm using Firefox more and more. I, and others, are pitching more extensibility for IE 8, though. We'll see how that goes.

Favorite firefox extensions:

smoothwheel
sage
adblock
flashblock

I can't believe junk like "IE Tab" is on the list (only a list Microsoft could make LOL) while adblockers are not.

abcTajpu (lets you easily enter accented characters)

Nuke Image - lets you easily remove images from a web page (and prints that way!); stays gone until you reload the page

MeasureIt - great for web developers; lets you measure the pixel widths of things on the page

Resize Search Box - because even FF developers are bad at UI; this should SO be built-in to FF.

Tab Mix Plus - best tab-handling extension out there.

FlashBlock - not what I want, but pretty close. I'd like the ability to remove already-loaded Flash animations. Any out there that do that?

Tab Mix Plus -- many options for tab behavior
(should be included by default, but set to match defaults)

Adblock Plus -- adds whitelisting

IE Tab -- already mentioned

Configuration Mania

Theme: "Mostly Crystal" (with some userchrome options applied, such as rounded address bar, native tabs, circular throbber [I want to use penguin icon only on Linux])

touch people, for example, an employee of nokia, won't be fired if he's using a moto mobile.

My choices of Firefox extensions are listed on my website. One extension not mentioned previously is Cutomize Google which is very useful in avoiding "spammy websites" or other sites you want to avoid. I imagine that of almost equal importance would be types of unnecessary extensions that I would not install like search box resizer better done through other means. Also the Key Word Search and bookmarklets should always also be considered along with extensions.