One of the questions I have to ask myself about my new work machine is, what browser do I want to run on it?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha hah ha! (sniff) Wow, I do make a funny now and again.
No, honestly, I’ll be putting on Firefox. Even though the company is (slowly, maybe, sometime soon) shifting from IE6 to IE8, at most I’ll be doing tha conversion with IE and continuing to use it on apps that only work in IE (our shiny new performance assessment tool, alas, being one of them).
I continue to play with Chrome — I use my office Gmail in it — but it’s only just started officially supporting extensions. I’ll give it a nod below.
So, Job 1 will be installing Firefox. And what extensions will I be using? Here’s what I currently have (courtesy of Extension List Dumper, my comments [in brackets]):
Application: Firefox 3.5.7 (20091221164558)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)
January 29, 2010
- Adblock Plus 1.1.3
Ads were yesterday! [Sine qua non!]
- Add Bookmark Here 3.0
Add bookmark here in bookmarks menu [A small but helpful convenience.]
- AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.9.95
(Disabled)
Allows the use of Roboform in Firefox.
[I used to use Roboform for password control, but now use Lastpass. The extension will not cross over.] - Clippings 3.1
Save frequently-entered text for pasting later. [Handy for clips to use in blogging, e.g., review templates, frequently used pictures …]
- ColorZilla 2.0.2.1
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
[I might or might not. I use it once in a blue moon. But it’s damned handy when I need it.] - DownThemAll! 1.1.8
The mass downloader for Firefox. [A handy widget that allows easier download of lots of files.]
- Echofon 1.9.4.1
This extension lets you know twitter statuses.
[I’m using Brizzly now, so I’ll be not bringing this over.] - Extended Copy Menu 1.6
Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html. [Extraordinarily handy, for blogging and email.]
- Extension List Dumper 1.14.4
Dumps a list of the installed extensions. [Producing this listing.]
- FireFTP 1.0.7
FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox. [My preferred FTP client.]
- Flagfox 3.3.20
Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server
[Which is sometimes interesting, but not interesting enough.] - Flashblock 1.5.11.2
Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them. [Huzzah! Annoying for Flash you want to see, but invaluable for Flash ads you don’t.]
- Forecastfox 0.9.10.1
Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension. [How else to tell at a glance if I should wear my jacket at lunch?]
- IE View Lite 1.3.5
Cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub.
[Lets you route an IE-only site you stumble across over to IE. I’m not really using this these days.] - ImgTag 0.3.4
Generates
tags [Great for generating an IMG tag off of an image. I use this in blogging a fair amont.]
- Java Console 6.0.01
- Java Console 6.0.11
- Java Console 6.0.13
- Java Console 6.0.14
- Java Quick Starter 1.0
- LastPass 1.64.4
Last Password you will ever need [My multi-platform password manager.]
- Make Link 9.11
Make HTML, ForumCode, or other links from the context menu [Handy for blogging.]
- Page Speed 1.5.0.3
Speed up your web pages with this performance diagnostics tool. Requires Firebug.
[No, haven’t really used it.] - Perspectives 3.0.3
Securely bypasses Firefox HTTPS security
errors by verifying certificates using a collection of
Network Notaries. See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/[I rarely get warnings from it, and those are usually spurious. Hmmm. Might do some quick research before I bring it over to see if it’s still useful.] - Resizeable Textarea 0.1d
Resize textareas to your needs. [Occasionally invaluable.]
- Skype extension for Firefox 2.2.0.102
(Disabled)
Skype extension for Firefox
[Autoinstalled with Skype, alas.] - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.4pre.090516
Tab browsing with an added boost. [Enhances the FF tab browsing options. Definitely.]
- Xmarks 3.4.6
Bookmark Sync and Web Discovery [This now syncs my bookmarks between FF and Chrome, and accross my machine. I don’t use any of the discovery tools, just this. Excellent.]
So … once I have a few minutes to start in on this, that’s probably where we’ll start.