Following on from Admin’s post on hammering firefox, I have been installing a mountain of extensions for Firefox. Unlike the guy who the original post was about, it wasnt the “top 100” I installed. I have spent most of the day trying out extensions to find good, useful ones which seem to have a decent purpose.
Now, needless to say, there has been a MASSIVE performance hit. At this time I only have 41 extensions installed but it is already taking a noticable amount of time for FF to actually start up. I have been ruthless with removing the toolbar’s some extensions like to install, but it has cost me about 1/5th of the screen real estate – and to be honest, for some extensions why would you have them if you turned the tool bar off…..
Anyway, on the positive side, it is pretty amazing that FF lets you bolt on so many different packages to generate the functionality you want. This really is a “good thing” from the open source movement. As it stands I cant see this level of customization being available for IE for quite some time.
For the terminally curious, the extensions I have are:
- DOM Inspector
- Talkback
- PDF Download
- HTML Validator
- ShowIP
- Gmail Notifier
- OpenNewWindowFromHere
- ColorZilla
- MeasureIT
- All-in-one Gestures
- BBCode
- Athens Toolbar
- Web Developer
- RSS Editor
- InfoRSS
- SEOpen
- Answers
- Image Zoom
- EditCSS
- GDirections
- Greasmonkey
- del.icio.us
- Periodic Table II
- rel Links
- wmlbrowser
- ForecastFox
- Live IP Address
- Digg This!
- SessionSaver
- TinyUrl Creatro
- hbar
- Colorful Tabs
- CuteMenus – Crystal SVG
- Gish It!
- Kaboodle
- Performancing
- FireFTP
- Long Titles
- Deepest Sender
If you can think of any others worth getting, please let me know.