Some useful Firefox add-on for productivity

Here is a list of add-ons which I use with mozilla firefox to make it dance with me-

1. Adblock Plus - pretty obvious I believe.
   
   
2. Auto Copy - anything you select within the browser goes to clipboard, so I dont have to press ctrl+c and I can direct to a ctrl+v.
   
   
3. Colorful Tabs - For aesthetic purpose.
   
   
4. del.icio.us bookmarks - To access my delicious bookmarks.
   
   
5. Dog ears - To mark important parts of a web page and easily find them.
   
   
6. Download statusbar - Instead of a separate window, download happens on status bar making it easy to track.
   
   
7. ErrorZilla - This turns the usual "404-error not found" to a list of options out of which my favorite is to use Google cache.
   
   
8. Fasterfox- firefox's better performance.
   
   
9. Firefox showcase - this feature is just like Internet Explorer-7 to have a bird eye view of all the opened tab.
   
   
10. IE Tab - for sites like cricbuzz and iiitb which are viewed best in Internet Explorer.
    
    
11. pdf Download - It searches the url and if it finds that the file is a pdf instead of a web-page, it gives me useful options like download, view it outside firefox or view as html.
    
    
12. Cooliris Preview - point to a link and it will show you preview of that page without clicking, hence saving a lot of clicking and coming back. especially useful while googling.
    
    
13. Clipmarks - Lets u save and share contents of a web-page without having to bookmark the whole page.
    

I came to know about these through browsing but one article was particularly helpful.
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power-surfing/

There are some less useful add-ons as well

Gmail Manager - Gmail account management.

Last tab - Allows the user to navigate using most recently opened tab instead of usual left to right thing using ctrl+tab. (One can also use ctrl+pg up or down without this extension but it won't show u a preview of that page.)

Stumble upon - Is a great time pass and source of information.

As far as the themes are concerned, I found Noia 2.0(eXtreme) the best.

Hope this was useful.


Some firefox tweakings are as follows -

first type the about:config in the url box

search for network.prefetch-next and set it to false to avoid firefox to prefetch pages it thinks you will click.

search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and set it to value depending on your RAM size, like 5000 for upto 512 MB RAM and about 16000 for more.

Right click on about:config page and create a new boolean named config.trim_on_minimize and set the value to true. This will ensure that when you minimize your firefox, the contents go to hdd instead of remaining in RAM.

Search for network.http.pipelining and set it to true.

Give network.http.pipelining.maxrequests a high value, about 10.

Create a new boolean content.interrupt.parsing and set it to true.

Search network.dns.disableIPv6 and set it to true.

To avoid downloading complete page before displaying it to us and show it as it downloads, create a new integer content.max.tokenizing.time and give it a value of 2250000.

To set min. time to wait between reflows, create a new integer content.notify.interval and give it a value of 750000.

To neglect initial paint delay, create a new integer nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0.

Some other information -
To view info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries, type about:cache on browser url bar. By default, Firefox doesn’t allow you to view the cached webpages, so this can be an useful option.

about:plugins gives a list of plug-ins installed.

about:Mozilla gives book of Mozilla. (More to read "High quality funda")