The Best Firefox Add-ons
I can't use any other browser no matter how fast or cool because I've gotten so used to add-ons for firefox!
Here are mine, and in case you're wondering, I have all these currently installed (Mac OS, is my current OS of choice) and Firefox runs at nearly the same speed as no add-ons:
--------- These are INDISPENSIBLE: ---------
DownloadStatusbar: Simply a much better download manager.
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
FlashBlock: Replaces flash objects with a play button ('>') you must click before you can see it. Purpose is to lessen the amount of distracting things shown on most webpages. You can add any website to a whitelist.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
NoScript: Extra protection! You must explicitly opt-in to any javascript or java (and other plugins) for every website (permanently or for just this session). You can add any website to a whitelist.
http://noscript.net/
Tab Mix Plus: Lots of fantastic tweaks for tabbed browsing.
http://tmp.garyr.net/ lastest (beta) versions here:
http://tmp.garyr.net/dev-builds/
Nuke Anything Enhanced: Allows you to select any object (e.g. text, image) in a webpage and choose to remove it or remove everything else (can bring everything back with a simple page refresh). Fantastic uses: delete an annoying animated gif!, or clean up a page before printing!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951
--------- Adds lots of convienience: ---------
MouseGestures: Use your mouse for navigation. For example, holding the right mouse button while clicking the left, takes you back a page.
http://www.mousegestures.org/
LinkAlert: Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link (e.g. shows a small pdf image if it links to a pdf)
http://linkalert.googlepages.com/
ForecastFox: Displays the current weather (including radar/satellite) and forecast info constantly in your toolbar or statusbar. Nicely configurable. Sure nice to have in a place where it actually rains!
http://users.rcn.com/shoofy/forecastfox_enhanced/
Fire.fm: Brings last.fm audio streaming (free) to your browser with a handy small controller!!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefm/
Mac PDF: (Mac only) displays pdf documents in their own tab (instead of launching Mac's built-in "Preview")
http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
GMarks: Allows you to have access to your Google Bookmarks everywhere and easily. I'm still getting use to this as I'm not a very organized bookmarker. What's cool about this is that you can search for text within the entire webpage of any bookmark you have - pretty powerful that is!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888 see also
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/
BugMeNot: Allows anonymous logins to those annoying "free" websites (e.g. NY Times)
http://erichamiter.com/firefox/bugmenot/
--------- KEY Webpage Development or Tweaking or Investigating Tools: ---------
Firebug: Tons of tools; can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page!
http://getfirebug.com/
Web Developer Toolbar: Big and extremely helpful set of tools for messing with webpages.
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
TamperData: View and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers, etc.
http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/
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All these allow small tweaks to the way their respective websites are displayed:
better-youtube:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-youtube-firefox-extension-319925.php
better-google-reader:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/trick-out-google-reader-with-better-greader-262020.php
better gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-gmail-2-firefox-extension-for-new-gmail-320618.php
better amazon:
http://lifehacker.com/397946/better-amazon-firefox-extension-upgrades-amazoncom
--------- Deactivated mine, but you may want to check out: ---------
LiveHTTPHeaders: View HTTP headers of a page while browsing.
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
Nightly Tester Tools: You'll need this to allow add-ons to work if you're using a beta version (i.e. Minefield) of Firefox.
http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
Google Pagerank Status: Display the google pagerank for the currently viewed page. (VERY unfortunately, this add-on is not kept current)
http://www.tapouillo.com/firefox_extension/
libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick
Trying to use the Imagemagick toolbox (for me, installed via MacPorts) sometimes doesn't work (for example, converting a png image) in Matlab because Matlab for some reason uses the libraries in its path over those given in system call (this is for Mac, but probably for *nix and maybe even Windows).
This is an example call:
[s,w] = system([IMAGEMAGICK_PATH,'convert ',pwd,'/',outfile,'.png -rotate 90 ',pwd,'/',outfile,'.png']);
This is the error:
error:
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/convert
Reason: Incompatible library version: convert requires version 12.0.0 or later, but libtiff.3.dylib provides version 11.0.0
The work around is to replace the Matlab library with the ImageMagick one (only need to do this once and will stay until you upgrade Matlab):
cd /Applications/MATLAB74/bin/maci/ (or wherever your Matlab is installed)
mv libtiff.3.7.1.dylib libtiff.3.7.1.dylib.MATLAB (give it a different name)
ln -s /opt/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib libtiff.3.7.1.dylib (create a soft link to the Imagemagick library file)
EDIT: This is the much better way to handle this:
setenv('DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH',['/opt/local/lib/:' getenv('DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH')])