Ask HN: your favorite obscure Firefox extensions?
Working definition: anything that's not the first page of popular extensions.
Autocopy - automatically copy selected text to clipboard
Googlepedia - wikipedia results along with google searches
AutoPager - breaking my own rule, but this one's awesome
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 59.8 ms ] threadThat's what i use to manage 50+ tabs. The list is missing firegestures & swifttabs.
links: AutoCopy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383
Googlepedia - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517
AutoPager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
Let's you take a picture of a part of your page by rearranging a square. Helps so you don't have to go to paint or photoshop to crop your recent screenshot.
May i also add ImgLikeOpera (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672). Avoid downloading any pics on a page.
My 3gb per month mobile broadband limit here in the UK goes soooo much further with it.
Shameless plug: If you are a google docs user you might want to look gdocsbar [http://www.gdocsbar.com]. an update with some more features like download, is on the works and will be released shortly.
http://www.rosssimpson.com/dev/omnibug.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
An absolute must if you love having 50-100+ tabs open. Oddly enough, it works rather well with Tab Mix Plus as well.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476
Lets me set fairly fine grained time limits on various sites that I'd otherwise spend too much time on.
http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/
Hide Navigation Bar (F2 to toggle nav bar) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8769
Both are awesome for netbooks. I find hide menubar nice to have even when I do have the space to spare because I use the menu bar so rarely.
http://www.mousegestures.org/
Speed Dial - Emulates the Opera speed dial home page. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810
Awesome plugin for quick/constant perf measurement. It shows how long it took the browser to get the first byte, the total time for page rendering, the total size of page and the total number of requests. For example, for this page, the stats are :
0.160s 0.600s 26.14KB 5 req
Will give you the possibility to open a file (especially file that you are sure is text) in Firefox instead of downloading it.
http://elder-gods.org/lol