IT:Tips:Firefox extensions

Firefox Extensions

Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Mozilla applications. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature. Do tools>extensions to add and remove. There are about 1400 of them, some very good, many rubbish. Here are are a few that we like.

IE Tab Windows only. Adds a right-click menu item that opens links in an IE rendered tab. You can set it so that it always opens certian links in IE, useful if you know they are permanently broken in Firefox, like iProc.
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation to Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page. It is based on Tidy. Very useful if you are writing web pages and keen to produce good HTML.
ForecastFox adds a highly customizable toolbar to give you the weather forecast for the next few days
RSS Panel displays a little floating panel at the left hand top of any web page for which a RSS feed is available. It displays the feed title, followed by a list of all feed subjects, linked to their destination pages. At the bottom of the list is a direct link to the RSS feed.
Googlepedia Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. Clicking links in the article will trigger new Google searches.