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One of the reasons I use Mozilla Firefox is its huge universe of extensions, scripts, styles, and other add-ons which can make it behave the way you want it to. I've customized my Firefox installation pretty extensively.

This list is current as of Firefox 21.0.

Extensions

Customization

Outdated list removed.

Web development

Outdated list removed.

Other stuff

• AutoPager

• Session Manager

• Automatic Save Folder

• CoLT

• Copy ShortURL

• Delicious Bookmarks

• DOMCrypt

• Dominant Color

• FlashVideoReplacer

• Fox to Phone

• Long URL Please

• Mobile Barcoder

• No Squint

• Open in Browser

• Proxy Selector

• Read it Later

• User Agent Switcher

• Flattr and aFlattr

Privacy

• Adblock Plus

• Flashblock

• PrivacyChoice TrackerBlock, which should be installed from PrivacyChoice

UI and Behavior

• Aaapptabs: Hide back & forward buttons, URL bars when using App Tabs.

• Easy App Tabs

• HTML Desktop Notifications

• Open In Chrome: adds menu item for opening current page in Google Chrome

• Personal Menu

• Remember Passwords: force Firefox to remember passwords for Websites that otherwise disable it

• SPDY Indicator

• Tab Badge

• Upload Progress

• Unhide Passwords

KDE integration add-ons

• Oxygen KDE for styling Firefox a little bit better w/ KDE's Oxygen

• KDE wallet password integration

• xclear adds a clear button to URL and search fields, ala Qt/KDE text fields

Experimental

• Suspend background tabs suspends timers, etc in unused background tabs.

Mozilla/Mozilla Labs

• Add-on Compatibility Reporter

• Nightly Tester Tools

• Test Pilot

Older stuff

Extensions that I don't use anymore.

• Autopagerize

• BetterPrivacy removes Flash LSOs and other tracking cookies

• Grab and Drag: for my tablet PC pipe dream.

• Link Widgets

• Operator: slow (difficult for an extension to parse DOM for microformats).

• Collusion
• Facebook Blocker

• GrabMyBooks

Adblock Plus

My exceptions:

@@||duckduckgo.com^$document

and:

• EasyList

• Antisocial
• Adversity

Preferences

user.js settings I use:

Experimental settings:

None in use.

Chrome

Contents of my userChrome.css:

   1 /* Font preferences for AwesomeBar dropdown
   2  * 
   3  * Adjusts font size, underlines URLs, and corrects colors
   4  */
   5 .ac-comment
   6 {
   7   font-size: 100% !important;
   8 }
   9 
  10 .ac-url-text
  11 {
  12   color: #306090 !important;
  13   text-decoration: underline !important;
  14 }
  15 
  16 .ac-url-text[selected="true"]
  17 {
  18   color: white !important;
  19 }
  20 
  21 /* Use monospaced font for AwesomeBar */
  22 #urlbar
  23 {
  24   font-family: monospace !important;
  25   font-size: 14px !important;
  26 }
  27 
  28 /* Combines Stop/Reload buttons, such that only one is shown at a time
  29  *
  30  * Note: May require button reordering (e.g reverse order of stop/reload
  31  * buttons) if the below does not work
  32  *
  33  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/10
  34  * Also, see bug 343396: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&id=343396
  35  */
  36 #stop-button[disabled="true"] { display:none; } 
  37 #stop-button:not([disabled]) + #reload-button { display:none; }
  38 
  39 /* Italicize unread tabs
  40  *
  41  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/8247
  42  */
  43 #content tab:not([selected]) { font-style: italic !important; }
  44 
  45 /* Display keyword field in Bookmark dialog
  46  *
  47  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/8250
  48  */
  49 #editBMPanel_keywordRow { visibility: visible; }
  50 
  51 /* Hide search and go buttons */
  52 .search-go-button,
  53 .search-go-button-stack,
  54 #go-button
  55 {
  56   display: none !important;
  57 }

Android

Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans

1. Go to about:config
2. Set to "Roboto", "Nokia Pure Text", or "Alte Haas Grotesk"
   • font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode
   • font.name.sans-serif.x-user-def
   • font.name.sans-serif.x-western

Font size adjustments

1. Go to about:config
2. Set font.minimum-size.x-unicode and font.minimum-size.x-western to 14
3. Set font.size.inflation.minTwips to "140"

Cache location

On devices w/ 8–16 GB memory, store Firefox's cache on the external SD card:

1. Go to about:config
2. Set browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to one of:
   • /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.fennec/files/cache/
   • /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox_beta/files/cache/
   • /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/cache/

Enabling off-main-thread compositing

Set to true:

• layers.acceleration.force-enabled
• gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated
• layers.omtp.enabled

You can also set:

• layers.acceleration.draw-fps

to display a FPS counter in the top left corner. If you see the counter, than OMTC and layer acceleration are working.

722012 – [Meta] Implement OMTC on Linux tracks whether OMTC has been enabled on Linux.

Fiddling

To tinker w/ browser styles/events/etc, navigate to chrome://browser/content/browser.xul and launch the built-in developer tools.

External tools

https://gist.github.com/f1u77y/715f0dd03fc18039a6549de557370b97: Exports styles from Stylish extension (stored in stylish.sqlite) into a JSON file that can be loaded into Stylus.

Interesting reading

• How to remove zoom level indicator from URL bar? : firefox

• Is there any way to "turn off" the zoom indicator in 51? : firefox

• How can I add the CSS styles used by Firefox reader mode?

• https://www.userchrome.org/

• https://github.com/overdodactyl/ShadowFox