Upgrading Firefox

[pne]

At work, I recently upgraded Firefox from 1.0.8 to 1.5, and it went pretty smoothly—recognised all my extensions, my saved passwords, my bookmarks, etc.

At home, I still had 0.8 running. This morning, Gmail started hanging on me and I thought this might be a sign to upgrade. Download, install, run—oops, looks as if it's never heard of my previous installation. Bummer.

So I guess I'll be copying over settings and bookmarks over the weekend, as well as installing extensions and perhaps visiting a few sites I go to regularly so that it'll pick up the passwords and cookies.

On the other hand, this might be a good time to start afresh. Does anyone have any favourite Firefox extensions they can recommend to me? What's their name, what do they do, where do you get them from?

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[nik-w.livejournal.com]

How odd - I've never had any problems upgrading Firefox.

Extensions? I have loads... let's see what could be useful...

AdBlock, as already mentioned is invaluable, but to further improve it, there's an extension called "Adblcok Filterset.G Updater" - this basically keeps Adblock up-to-date with a huge list of filters that is centrally compiled by loads of users and means almost all commonly known ads get blocked out of the box.

FireFTP - if you do any FTP work, this is a small FTP client that runs in a Firefox window.

DownloadStatusbar - no more popup with download progress - now you get to see what's downloading in a bar at the bottom of your window - you can customise it so that certain filetypes auto-hide themselves once they've finished downloading, etc.

DownloadThemAll - if you have lots of links on a page that you want to download, don't bother clicking on each one - just run this extension, choose which links or embedded objects (pictures, movies, music, anything) you want to download, where to save them to, and it does the rest.

AntiPagination - fed up of keep clicking "Prev" or "Next"? Now you can load several pages and stitch them together with only a couple of clicks.

SearchBox Sync - possibly a bit pointless, I guess, but if you type something into the searchbox (say "fish") and then when the search page comes up, you change your mind and type something else into the page itself (say "flying fish"), it will update the searchbox to contain the new value.

UpdateMonitor - ever forget to update your extensions? Not anymore - this little extension puts a tiny icon in the top right of your FF window, and sits there periodically checking for new versions of any extension you have installed. When it finds some, it changes colour - you can then choose to install some or all of the extensions it's found by just clicking on it. Once done, it will then change colour again to let you know that FF needs to restart (which you can do by clicking on it again).

Bookmark Duplicate Detector - does exactly what it says on the tin!

Form History Manager - don't want to clear out all entered form info just to remove one or two things? No problem - with this extension, you can go through and choose what to keep and what not to.

IE View Lite - not all pages work in FF, so for those that don't, you can view them in IE with one click. If it's a page you visit often, you can set IE View to always load that particular page in IE.

All these can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org (or by clicking "extensions->get more extensions" and having a search around. :)