Firefox Addons/Extensions I Can't Live Without

I have been using Firefox for a  couple of years now. Through the years i have added and deleted addons/extension that at first are useful then i have to left go because A.) i found a better extension B.) no longer useful to me and C.) the developer no longer update the said extension. So now i'm listing my Firefox extension i have been using for quite some time now.

1. DownThemAll! - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want![addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201]

2. ScribeFire Next - A reboot of the full featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
This is a redesign of ScribeFire, one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to all of your blogs.

You can post to blogs from Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, Tumblr, Posterous, Xanga, LiveJournal, or any other blog that supports the MetaWeblog or MovableType APIs.[addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/199790]

3. Xmarks Sync - Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on.
It takes only a moment to get up and running with Xmarks. After you install the add-on, click on the notification to set up Xmarks and start backing up and synchronizing your bookmarks. Install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks safely backed up and in sync.

Xmarks works seamlessly across browsers. Today we support Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari (MacOS only), and Google Chrome. Please visit our website at xmarks.com for more details.[addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410]

4. Live HTTP Headers - View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.
[addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829]

5.  WebMail Notifier - WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails.
WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails...
Supports : gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol, daum, naver, nate, paran, POP3/IMAP and more. [addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4490]

Running Globe's Unlimail and eBuddy's Mobile Instant Messenger on a Non Supported Phone

I use this method whenever i want to try some Java MIDP applications on my old LG KU250 mobile phone. A brief description of Unlimail is that its a push email application made by Emoze for Globe Telecom and it runs on Symbian and Java MIDP capable phones. It can access multiple email such as GMail, Yahoo! Mail and MSN among other things.

First off we will need Mozilla Firefox and 2 Firefox addon namely WML Browser to simulate WAP browsing and User Agent Switcher.  To download the Unlimail application you will need to use a user agent that is close to your phone. In my case i'm using a 3 year old LG KU250 which they say is not supported so i choose to use a Nokia 3120 user agent. Once your user agent is set you can now go to the WAP site and download the application to your computer. When finish downloading from the WAP site you can now download it to your phone whether by cable, bluetooth or via card reader and install it and hopefully it will run.


With this method you can also download eBuddy's Mobile Instant Messenger. Proceed to eBuddy's mobile webpage get.ebuddy.com choose you phone model or for a non supported phone the closes to your model. I choose LG KU380 since my KU250 is not supported. Download the eBuddy application, install it and your done.

Facebook Mafia Wars Autopalyer Firefox Extension part II

Last time i was talking about how to convert Facebook Mafia Wars Autoplayer userscript to Firefox extension. So now i'm providing a link for anyone who stumble upon this blog and wants to try out the autoplayer and doesn't want to do the compiling and stuff. Remember this is cheating and you may get ban for using this.

link: [Facebook Mafia Wars Autoplayer Firefox Extension]





Special thanks go to the creator/contributors to this fine script

 StevenD
 CharlesD
 Eric Ortego
 Jeremy
 Liquidor
 AK17710N
 Fragger
 <x51>
 CyB
 int1
 Janos112
 int2str

Screenshots of Mafia Wars Autoplayer Firefox Extension on Ubuntu 9.04:

Facebook Mafia Wars Autoplayer Firefox Extension

I've been playing Mafia Wars on Facebook for almost 2 weeks now and i'm quite addicted to it. Searching tips and guide gave me tons of info on how to play the game. I found out that there are autoplayers for the game. You can go to userscripts.org search for mafia wars  and what you will find are smorgasborg autoplayer scripts for you to automate your game. By the way this is cheating and you can get ban for using these scripts.

In order for the scripts to work you need to install greasemonkey add-on for Firefox from there you can run the mafia wars script you selected.
Personally i don't like using greasemonkey thats why when i find useful script such as StevenD's Mafia Wars Autoplayer script i try to convert/compile them to a firefox extension by using Arantius.com script compiler .

Here is how i did it :

1. get the source code of the script you want to use
2. go to http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/script-compiler
3. insert detail and paste the source code then compile
4. save the xpi file
5. drag and drop the xpi file to your  firefox browser

StevenD's Mafia Wars Autoplayer has lots of options but i don't use all of it. I only use auto heal, protect property and  auto bank.

Firefox + Simple Mail + GMail + YPops!

I like gmail and when i say i like gmail i really really mean it! I check my email everyday, every few minutes. So when then news about Gmail security flaws (which where later rebutted by the GMail team) i got somewhat scared... ok i was really really frightened by it. So what i did was i returned to using email clients. I figured that by using email clients it would lessen the chance of a malicious site inserting its filter on my precious gmail account.

I just wanted a simple email client, I don't need those hulking email clients like Thunderbird. Then i remembered reading about a firefox extension that acts as a email client. It's called Simple Mail from the name itself it is a very simple client so don't expect to much from it. Simple mail can access Pop and Imap accounts. It can notify you of new messages. It has an address book. Its three-paned view layout is again pretty simple.  Setting it up to access gmail is pretty straight forward.

Since i'm using simple mail now to access my email i might as well read my yahoomail through simple mail. In order to do this  i have to download and install YPops!. What is Ypops!? "YPops is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o­ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well."

Once installed, setup simple mail to access YPops and your done.


Download:
Simple Mail [addons.mozilla.org]
YPOPS! for Ubuntu [t_skariah]

Extensions! Extensions!

If your a Firefox user you definitely know what Firefox Extension do to your browsing experience if not download Firefox and see for yourself.



Here are the extension that I'm currently using:

Better Gmail 2 0.2
Download Statusbar 0.9.5.2
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) 5.1.1
Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader)0.3.2
Flashgot 0.7
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Gmail Notifier 0.6.2.2
New Tab Button on Tab Bar 2.0
Personas For Firefox 0.9.1
Reminderfox 1.5

For more extensions/addons go to addons.mozilla.org

Personas for Firefox

Here ia a nifty extension for Firefox. Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. I like this theming extension because as stated before its lightweight, it's easy to change from one theme to another without restarting Firefox and themes are readily accesible via a Fox mask icon on the status bar.





Personas for Firefox[labs.mozilla.com]