Send Referer is a ff extension which allows you to browse the web as usual, except that your browser won’t send referer header. When you come across a link you can’t follow without referer, right click on it and use « Open Link with Referer Header ». Sending Referer Header will be enable for 7 seconds and then it will go back to no referer mode.
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Today’s ff extensions
lget 0.2, a good download manager. See also FlashGot, a manager for third party download managers, with Build Gallery functionality. Also Fasterfox, which allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay; Tab Mix Plus is a continuation of the TBP/TBE idea. It includes duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, … (includes a session manager with crash recovery, so a conflict with session saver .2 can be expected); DownThemAll lets you filter and download all the links contained in any web-page; Distrust hides the « surfing trails » that the browser leaves behind. it monitors FireFox for its activities and will remove history items cache and cookies that were used during the session.
Unified Back-/Forward Button 0.3.3 [Mar 11] – MozillaZine Forums
Unified Back-/Forward Button is a cute one-button-instead-of-two extension, but needs some job to be installed.
MacWarriors TrailBlazer
MacWarriors TrailBlazer solves the problem of getting back to a web page you’ve been to before, but didn’t have the forethought to bookmark. The current solutions provided by most web browsers, their history menu, is just a list of titles and web addresses which aren’t memorable enough to be useful. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want.
Mass Installer
Mass Installer allows to install a bunch of extensions with one single click (via). Use it together with InfoLister , Profile backup and -install-global-extension
Command Line Option.
Tabbrowser Preferences
I’m trying to clear the mess of overlmapping tab-related ff extensions (TBE ommitted). A good start (apart from S. Boulema’s page) is foun on The One KEA‘s Tabbrowser Preferences (TBP) page. (TOK is now official maintener of TBP)
Remove it permanently
(closely) related Firefox extensions – The Extensions Mirror
A very useful post from Samir Boulema’s Extensions mirror (TEM) listing (closely) related Firefox extensions, sets with overlapping features. Samir brings the knowledge of ff extensions further with this tab related extensions thread.
Samir also has an excellent Bumping extensions tutorial. « Bumping » is the name given by TEM staff to allowing an extension to work with a more recent version of Firefox.
Portable Firefox Support
Due to administrative (I mean Win 2K administration limitation) issues, I installed a USB key version of ff 1.5 rc3. It has some (a few) limitations, a some roundcuts have to be used, notably when installing .xpi’s, as explained here.