Firefox Settings

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This page some Firefox extensions that I use regularly. Click on the name to search for them on Mozilla's site.


Enhanced functions

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.

Go parent Folder

The plugin Go parent Folder enables you to see where a bookmark from a filter result is located.

gTranslate

With gTranslate you can right-click a selected text and translate it on the fly.

Password Exporter

With Password Exporter you can export and import your saved passwords to and from XML.

Block adds

Block images, popups banners and flash before they annoy you:

Search

Add right-click search engines

Make search functionality available in the Search Bar with Add to Search bar

The search URL can be customized to your wishes. I made changes to IMDB search to jump the the best match instead of showing all matches first by using google's 'Im+Feeling+Lucky'. First make sure you have the IMDB search engine and then modify it following beneath example.

gedit /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins/imdb.xml
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>IMDb</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>IMDb</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>ISO-8859-1</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64</os:Image>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.com/search</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
  <os:Param name="btnI" value="Im+Feeling+Lucky"/>
  <os:Param name="q" value="IMDB+{searchTerms}"/>
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

Include all right-click search engines

Context Search expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of installed search engines, allowing you to choose the engine you want to use for each search.

Development

Debugging JavaScript in your webpages

Firebug