Leigh Brasington's Recommended Firefox Extensions

Notes:
1. uBlock   It's a whole different web without those busy advertisements. But Ad Block Plus has sold out to the advertisers. So now I use uBlock.

2. Back To Close WE   I love this one. Those stupid web designers who insist on opening a new window when I click a link no longer irritate me - because the Back button closes the window, leaving me right back where I was when I clicked - just like it's supposed to be.

3. WX Download Statusbar   I like this much better than the default Download Manager.

4. IE View WE   I set this extension to my ViewWith program which gives me a choice of other programs - not just Internet Explorer (yes, there are some web sites that only work in IE - e.g. Microsoft). ViewWith and this extension give me the ability to use IE or Chrome to view a link.

5. NoScript   This one really enhances the security of Firefox (which out of the box is much more secure than IE). You get to say which sites you trust to run Javascript and Java - all others are blocked. But you can unblock with 2 mouse clicks - strongly recommended. Note: To unblock a site like http://home.alamedanet.net, you need to unblock http://home.alamedanet.net rather than alamedanet.net - some weird bug there.

6. ViewSourceWith is once again broken with the release of Firefox version 36. A work around for HTML and TXT files is as follows:
   • Use Tools > Add-ons to disable ViewSourceWith and restart Friefox
   • Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
   • Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
   • In the filter box type view_source
   • Double-click on view_source.editor.external to change its value to true
   • Double-click on view_source.editor.path and set it to the full path for your editor - e.g. C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
   With this change, I press Ctrl+U and the source for the current web page appears in my favorite editor. Also, since I use UDP as that editor, I can immediately email the page - click here to see how.

7. Web Developer   Adds a toolbar for Web site authors. But it also gives you control over things like turning off and on Referer Logging and Java. Another recommended extension for Web developers is Firebug which can be very helpful when debugging javascript.

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