Question: Mozilla and Firefox Plugins?

Posted by Steve on Tue 1 Mar 2005 at 10:18

In most Debian desktop systems all the packages come from the Debian package repositories, and possibly some other non-official ones. These repositories contain everything you need, with one common exception. Plugins and extensions for browsers often have to be downloaded seperately.

At the moment I'm rebuilding my main desktop machine, mystery.my.flat.

All the packages that were on my previous desktop were backed up and restored without much effort, but I neglected to backup my mozilla profile - figuring that the bookmarks were safe as they are spread across a number of machines.

Everything is back to normal now, except for the extensions that I used with Firefox, my browser of choice.

Here's what I have installed now:

Sage: Sage is an RDF/RSS feed reader which integrates with Firefox seemlessly.
Target Alert: Target Alert is a simple extension which puts little icons next to links. For example when a link target points to a PDF file it places a little "PDF icon" next to it. Simple. Elegent. Surpisingly useful.
Flashblock: Flashblock stops flash movies and adverts from automatically loading - requiring you to click on any that you want to play. Handy for blocking animated adverts.

So here's my question: What extensions do you use for Mozilla / Firefox? And why?

This article can be found online at the Debian Administration website at the following bookmarkable URL:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/99