Tuesday, February 9th 2010

Some Great Firefox Extensions

I have been meaning to write this post for a while now. I have found a few new favourite extensions for Firefox. Mainly they help me make the most of the space on my screen.

Here’s what my screen looks like right now:

• Download Statusbar cures one slight annoyance with Firefox. Instead of opening the Download Manager whenever I save something from the web, the Download Statusbar will appear at the bottom of the screen. Kind-of the same thinking as with the neat Find bar that Firefox has. You can make it hide automatically when you’ve opened your downloaded files too.
• Hide Caption Titlebar Plus lets you get rid of the titlebar at the top of the window. As you might have guessed. This gives you more space for web pages. Works really well with the next extension.
• Tabs On Top puts Firefox’s tabs at the top of the window. Used together with Hide Caption Titlebar Plus above, this makes them easier to target with the mouse.
• Link Target Display is another great extensions which indirectly increases the space left over for web pages. With this extension, you can hide the status bar, and still get to see the URLs that links point to.

Hope you find these useful!

Posted at 16:35. Tags: Mozilla. Categories: browsers, Mozilla Firefox. Both comments and trackbacks are closed.

2 Responses to this post:

1. David Tenser says:

   February 15, 2010 at 13:44

   Thanks for the tips! For me, I rarely feel that I don’t have enough space on the screen for the web content. When I do, I typically hit F11, which gives me more than I could ask for. 🙂

   That said, I’m looking forward to seeing how Firefox 4.0 turns out, as I imagine that will be a bit more elegant than these extensions.

   I will definitely keep the Download Statusbar extension though; it’s just great!

2. David Naylor says:

   February 15, 2010 at 22:41

   “That said, I’m looking forward to seeing how Firefox 4.0 turns out, as I imagine that will be a bit more elegant than these extensions. ”

   AGREED!!

   And I must admit I rather like changing things just for the sake of changing them myself. The increase in web page canvas has more of a psychological effect than a practical one! 🙂