Firefox Tips

Extensions for Firefox

Available as Debian packages

• Web Developer
  • firefox-webdeveloper
• Checky
  • mozilla-checky
• Live HTTP Headers
  • mozilla-livehttpheaders
• JavaScript Debugger
  • mozilla-venkman
• Greasemonkey Scripts
  • firefox-greasemonkey

Other cool ones

• Adblock Plus
• Diggler
• DownThemAll!
• Fasterfox
• Firebug
• FireFTP
• Forecastfox
• FoxyProxy
• googlebar
• IEtab, useful under Windows when you have crappy intranet requiring IE
• JAJAH - Web-Activated Telephony
• MR Tech Local Install
• PDF Download
• mozImage
• Reveal but for FF2, cf here
• Sage
• Séparé
• StumbleUpon
• ?? stylish and greasemonkey (the best greasemonkey scripts)
• Tab Mix Plus
• User Agent Switcher
• Viamatic foXpose
• VideoDownloader
• Web Color Names
• Wikipedia toolbar
• xyzproxy

Themes for Firefox

• Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)

Plugins for Firefox

Available as Debian packages

• flashplayer-mozilla
• mozilla-acroread
• mozilla-mplayer
• Java, cf SoftsUnderDebian

Customizing Firefox

Adding search engines

If you don't find it here or there, you can create your own manually or create you own with this very simple web tool
Examples I created easily via Ready2search (only for FF 2.0):

• To get a list of domains pointing to the same IP: Webhosting.info reverse IP search
• To get history of an RFC: RFC editor search engine
• To search an ICQ member by its ID (when I receive unknown requests): ICQ #

Anonimizing of your searches using BlackBoxSearch and CustomizeGoogle

For simple anonimization through a proxy use BlackBoxSearch. Mainly BlackBoxSearch anonimizes your searches by hiding your IP. Here is a greasemonkey script that makes the use of BlackBoxSearch automatic.

To obtain a complete solution you should regularly erase your favorite search engine cookies. If you are using Firefox and Google, this can be done automatically through the CustomizeGoogle extension. To do this you have to enable the privacy protection options of it.

References: Schneier Security blog: TrackMeNot

Extensions for Thunderbird

Available as Debian packages

• mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail (http://enigmail.mozdev.org/) - OpenPGP message encryption and authentication
• mozilla-thunderbird-locale-fr
• Note that Thunderbird 1.5 contains already the "offline" extension but is only available in experimental repository as I write these lines...

Other cool ones

• addressContext - An extension to add addressbook-related options to the context menu
• Allow HTML temporary - Allow temporary HTML in the selected message
• Display Mail User Agent Extension - Displays the mail program with which the selected mail was written
• Display mailing list header - Displays special mail headers defined in RFC 2369
• Leet Key - Transforms typed or static text to L337, ROT13, BASE64, HEX, URL, BIN, Morse Code, DVORAK, Upper Case, Lower Case, DES.
• Mozilla Calendar - A calendar client based on iCal standard
• MR Tech Local Install - Local Install power tools for all users.
• Quote Colors - Configure text and background colors for different quote levels in mail/news messages.
• QuoteCollapse - Collapse quotes.
• Remove Duplicate Messages - Removes duplicate messages by folder context menu.
• Sync Kolab - Syncronize the address book and calendar with IMAP folder or Kolab1/2 server
• View Headers Toggle Button - Toolbar toggle button for viewing headers.
• ReminderFox

Dictionaries for Thunderbird

• Don't try to install them as xpi, it won't work under Debian, instead, install the proper myspell package:
• apt-get install myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us
• That's all!
• Don't worry if you get twice the dictionaries in Thunderbird, these are just aliases created by myspell.

Themes for Thunderbird

• Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)

Misc

For those who develop websites and need interoperability with e.g. the awfully broken CSS interpreter of IE, you can install IE under linux with those scripts and wine:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz