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- Adblock
Filters ads from web-pages, there is also an Adblock Plus variant, and Element Hiding Helper is very welcome too!
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Synchroniseer Adblock met Filterset.G.
- Bookmarks Scrollbar
Adds a scrollbar to the bookmarks menu.
- British English Dictionary
British English Dictionary
- BuienRadar
Shows the spots on the map in the Netherlands where it's raining.
- CacheIt!
Displays an archived version of the webpage you are veiwing or link you are hovering.
- ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- CSSViewer
A simple CSS property viewer
- CustomizeGoogle
Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam. Important: this extensions greatly helps you to protect your privacy!
- DictionarySearch
Looks up selected word in an online dictionary, add your own dictionaries as well.
- Exif Viewer
Extracts and displays the Exif (Exchangeable Image File), IPTC-NAA/IIM (International Press Telecommunications Council / Newspaper Association of America / Information Interchange Model), and IPTC Core (Adobe XMP, Extensible Metadata Platform) metadata, as stored by digital still cameras, in both local and remote JPEG images.
- Extended Copy Menu
Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html. Very handy to copy HTML into e-mails in Thunderbird (new message window) > Insert > HTML.
- Extension List Dumper
Dumpt een lijst van geïnstalleerde extensies.
- Fasterfox
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
- FireFTP
Lightweight FTP client which I use together with the more robust Kasablanca, which is the foremost FTP client for KDE.
- Flashblock
Replaces annoying Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
- Html Validator
Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3c.
- IE View Lite
Adds a right click menu item to open a page in Internet Explorer (or Konqueror if you want) and a list of sites to always open in the other browser. Works on Kubuntu as well, see this post.
- Organize Status Bar
organize your status bar icons: rearrange or remove any item (icon or text) in the Firefox status bar.
- Password Exporter
Export and import your saved passwords between computers and from Windows to Linux.
- Resizeable Form Fields
Resize HTML form fields, including textareas, select boxes, text fields, and iframes.
- RSS Editor
RSS editor.
- Screen grab!
Saves a web-page as an image.
- SearchStatus
Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools.
- Session Manager
Saves and restores the state of all windows and tabs.
- SmoothWheel
Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel
- Stop-or-Reload Button
Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one. When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button. (Like the Safari browser on Apple)
- Torbutton
Adds a button to easily enable or disable the browser's use of Tor, to communicate anonymously on the internet without leaving your IP address. Also see Protect your Privacy.
- Unhide Menubar
Adds a right-click menu entry for unhiding the menu and toolbars in pop-up windows where they have been hidden by javascript.
- Unhide Passwords
Shows contents of password fields in clear text instead of ••••••.
- UnPlug
This extension lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool.
- ViewSourceWith
View page source with an external editor such as Kate or Kwrite.
- Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
- Woordenboek Nederlands
Woordenboek Nederlands voor de spellingcontrole in Mozilla-producten.
- For Thunderbird primarily: Buttons!
This extension adds buttons which can be added to the toolbars.
- For Thunderbird primarily: Menu Editor
Rearrange or remove menu items from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File Edit View etc.).
- For Thunderbird specifically: Attachment Extractor
Extracts all attachments from selected messages and then the options are: delete, detach or mark-read.