The very first thing you need to do, if you have not yet, is Get FireFox!




   Then, go get some Themes and Extensions at  Firefox Add-ons

  These are just a scant few of my top picks.

  There are many, many more, for whatever you want. It is very simple to make your own too.

MR Tech Local Install

NoScript

Adblock Plus

Super DragAndGo

SlimSearch   (*see below for hack to open tabs in background)

VideoDownloader

Unplug

m3u ripper

downthemall!

Save as Image 1.044

Multiple row bookmark toolbar

Greasemonkey

The following (& all ) greasemonkey scripts are available at  userscripts.org/

eBay Hacks - Show only negative feedback

VideoEmbed (changes plain video links into embedded video! No need to leave the page to view video.)

All Sites Page recolorization for those eye bleeding pages 

You can change your color preferences easily by just editing the script.

Bookmarklets are easy to make , sometimes better than a full blown extension.

Bookmarklets - free tools for power surfing

"Search" Bookmarklet Generator

Be sure to look into the various "Zap"  bookmarklets for zapping annoyances.

Update 07-15-2007:
FireFox SlimSearch Hack ~ Open Tabs in BG

I love the slimsearch extension for FireFox, but I wanted it to open in the tabs in the background.
After reading up a bit, asking for some help, and playing around with it, I was able to achieve a small success.

You can create a test FF profile with the profile manager
strt > run > type:

firefox.exe -p

Note the space in between .exe and  -p

Download or make a copy of slimsearch. Put it in a handy folder or desktop. Open with 7-zip. Navigate down to the chrome fodler, using "open inside".

When you see the search.js folder use the edit feature to open it.

Locate this portion, near the very end of the script:

"browser.selectedTab = browser.addTab(URL);"

Remove this part:

"browser.selectedTab ="

(be sure to remove all the spaces in there too, clear from the return to the beginning of the words "browser.addTab(URL);".

When you get done all you should have there in that command is

"browser.addTab(URL);"

Save file. When 7-zip asks you, click OK to update archive.

Go ahead and drag it into an open Firefox window. Restart.

Install into main/additional profiles.
You can archive it now or overwrite your old, un-modded copy.

Werkz fer me.

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11-11-2007

I had been using my own bumped version of the old Sound Extnsion 1.0

(note the original misspelling)

It did work properly, it produced nav sounds correctly, but if you want to change sounds you had to dig deeper into the extension and locate the wav files, overwrite them with the new file. (you had to keep the same filename, or change/add more in the manifest)

You can also kill the nav sounds by clicking x to close firefox, then cancelling upon confirmatioon pop-up, but that left bugs like back button greyed out, find feature not working , I forget what all.

I can live with it the way just bumping does. What I am going to do though is make a toolbar toggle on/off button which works without borking the other things mentioned above for it. So check back or keep your eyes peeled to youtube.

I see now someone has made a version Sound Extension 1.0.0.1

Sounds like they had similar results.

I do not see that listed as an official add-on, but I am sure it is good, within the limitations.

As far as I know, the architecture is different for FF 1.0.X* than it is for FF 2.0.0* and that options gui is never going to work, in a similar way. The entire structure of that portion of the extension needs reworked. That is why I will just "cheat" to be able to turn them off & on with a toggle.

Just one last little thing, MR Tech Local Install will make alot of extensions compatible instead of having to bump them.

As with Sound Extension 1.0, that does not mean it will work properly.

Themes/skins can be made compatible much less often than extensions BTW, in my experience.

You can look here to see & hear the extension in action in a short video.

Update 3-25-2008: Just got a Vista machine (finally). It has a sound mixer to adjust or kill browser sounds, so that makes soundextension work just fine, outside the non-selectability of sounds issue. (Yes, it works with Vista and with the latest Firefox 3 beta, 3.0b5 right now.)
No more clicking X or exit then cancel to kill nav sounds. Never did get on that kill sound button.
You can always just rename whatever wav you want and put it in the appropriate folder to achieve different sounds.

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/22779

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