Alan Le

More Firefox Extensions Goodness

I would like to follow-up on my last post about Firefox extensions. In setting up Firefox, I installed these extensions.

Adblock Plus - Powerful extension to get rid of ad images and banners while browsing.
Adblock filterset.G Updater - Companion extension to Adblock that adds premade filters.
IEView Lite - Simple extension to right-click the current page and view it in Internet Explorer.
Web Developer - Great extension for every web developer. With this extension you can quickly view the site layout, tweak the css, and useful things.
Del.icio.us Buttons - Makes adding new del.icio.us links quick and simple.
Tab Mix Plus - fine tunes the tabbed browsing experience. The built-in session manager is quite useful as well.

What are some of your favorite extensions?

4 Must-have Firefox Extensions

Extensions are a way to add new functionality to Firefox to enhance the web browsing experience. The list below are the extensions that I think every Firefox browser should have.

IE View
While many sites nowadays work fine in Firefox, there are the occasional sites that are "IE only". Instead of copying the url, opening a new Internet Explorer window and pasting the URL, this extension allows me to simply right click and select "View this page in IE". Simply, effective, productive.
link: http://ieview.mozdev.org/index.html

Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Resize windows, show the DOM, modify css on the fly.. you name it. This toolbar is so useful that Microsoft created it for IE recently.
link: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60

AdBlock
Just say no to ads. This extension is simply the best way to filter ads may they be banner images, flash, or some other annoying feature. The filter can accept wildcards and patterns so it's cool to be able to block entire types of ads. On top of that I use it to remove the huge header banner on some sites, ugly avatars on messageboards, and unnecessary flash usage..
link: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10

AdBlock Filterset.G
This extension is a companion to Adblock that contains a bunch of preset filters for blocking intrusive ads.
link: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1136

No username/password prompt when viewing Devblogs with Firefox.

When viewing http://devblogs from Firefox, you are presented with a username/password prompt.  This is due to some images that are presented on the main devblog page that are stored in vsweb.  Vsweb is running on SharePoint and requires Windows Integrated Authentication.  Internet Explorer recognizes that vsweb is on the local internet and automatically sends your credentials, while Firefox needs to prompt.  You can easily mimic this behavior in Firefox and avoid the prompt each time you re-visit devblogs by adding vsweb to the list of trusted URIs for ntlm auth.  Here’s how to do so:

1. In Firefox, type "about:config" the address bar.
2. Scroll down to the setting "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" and add "http://vsweb"to its value.