Best Firefox Extensions

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1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions » Click to select Mozex » Options
2. Click on the Source tab and in the 'Source editor' text box, enter:
   
   
3. Click to close all dialogs to apply the setting.
   
   NOTE: You can use any text editor or HTML editor in place of Windows Notepad to view the page source using Mozex. To do so, on the Mozex Options dialog » Source tab, (see above), use the 'Browse' button beside the 'Source editor' text box to locate and select the program you wish to use as a text editor to view web page source code. After selecting your program, the path to your selected program will appear in the 'Source editor' text box. At the end of the program path, type a space and then %t afterwards.
   
   Example:
   
   "C:\Program Files\Chami\HTML-Kit\Bin\HTMLKit.exe" %t
   
   The above line would set HTML Kit (assuming you have it installed) to be the text editor to view page source using Mozex.

1. Right click anywhere on a web page whose source code you wish to view in Windows Notepad (or your favourite text editor)
2. In the context menu, click on mozex » View Page Source

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Mozex
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

• Right-click on the page in Firefox and then click on View This Page in IE.
  
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• Right-click on a hyperlink and then click on Open Link Target in IE.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. In the Extensions dialog, click to select IE View and then click on Options
3. In the IE View Preferences dialog, use the Add Site text box to type in or copy-and-paste the URL of the web site/page you wish to always open in Internet Explorer.
4. Click Add and then click OK to apply setting.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select IE View
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

• To put a Web Developer button in the Firefox Navigation toolbar:
  
  
  1. Right-click on the Navigation toolbar and then click on Customize.
  2. Drag and drop the 'Web Developer' button to the Navigation toolbar.
• You can toggle the Web Developer toolbar on and off by clicking View » Toolbars » Web Developer Toolbar (or by clicking on the 'Web Developer' button in Navigation toolbar if you have one as described above).
• Most of the functions are pretty straightforward and self-explanatory. Just check them out and see what happens.
• One or two of the options on the right side of the toolbar may be cut off if you're using 800 x 600 screen resolution.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Web Developer
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

• After installation, Firebug will display as a little bug icon in the bottom right corner of Firefox. To enable Javascript debugging, do this:
  
  
  1. Go to the site you wish to do Javascript debugging on.
  2. Right click on the Firebug icon (bottom right) and click on Open Firebug in New Window.
  3. Click on the Console tab and then check 'Console' and 'Script'
  4. Click on Enable selected panels for [your site]
• With Javascript debugging enabled (see above), Firebug will notify you when the current page contains Javascript errors by displaying a red circled 'X' in the bottom right corner of Firefox followed by the number of errors. To view the error messages, click on the number of errors notification to open the Firebug console. The error messages will be listed in the console along with which web document contains the errors, which lines of code in that document are producing the errors and the respective line numbers.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Firebug
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

• Press Ctrl + F on your keyboard
  
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• Click on Edit » Find in This Page...

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Retro Find
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

1. Click on File » Save with URL
2. Save the web page as you normally would.

1. Open the saved web page in Firefox.
2. Click on View » Saved page » Original address

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select SaveWithURL
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

1. Select text on a web page by clicking and dragging your mouse pointer.
2. Right click on the selected text and click on Word Count.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Word Count
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

1. Click on Tools » Web Color Names

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Web Color Names
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. In the Extensions dialog, click to select Menu Editor and then click on Options
3. In the Options for Menu Editor dialog on the left side under Edit Menu, select the menu you wish to edit in the dropdown list.
4. In the window appearing below that, select the menu item you wish to apply settings to and then click on Show or Hide according to what you would prefer. (A green check mark indicates that a menu item will show when the menu is activated while a red X indicates that the menu item will be hidden.)
5. Click OK to apply settings.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. In the Extensions dialog, click to select Menu Editor and then click on Options
3. In the Options for Menu Editor dialog on the left side under Edit Menu, select Tools in the dropdown list.
4. In the window appearing below that, select Customize Menus and then click on Show (this will apply a green checkmark).
5. Click OK to apply settings.

1. Click on Tools » Add-ons » Extensions
2. Click to select Menu Editor
3. Click on Uninstall.
4. Restart Firefox.