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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

• dotjs

• Scriptish, what I've started using as a replacement for Greasemonkey

• Stylish and Stylish Sync

Web development

• ColorZilla

• Firebug

• JSONView

• Google's Page Speed: I previously used Yahoo's YSlow, but switched because Page Speed is open-source. Functionality is mostly equivalent, and I honestly don't use the extension enough to notice the differences.

• Rainbow

• Web Developer: has bugs that slows down Firefox significantly when you've a lot of tabs. Disabled, though still useful.

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:

Needs research:

• widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158076#c137

Experimental settings:

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

How to help testing off-main-thread compositing from the Mozilla Gfx Team Blog describes everything that needs to be done. In short:

Set to true:

• layers.acceleration.force-enabled
• layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled
• layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-opacity
• layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-transform
• layers.async-video.enabled

and into ~/.bash_profile (warning: this will cause all Firefox, including stable versions, to use OMTC):

export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1

You can also set:

• layers.acceleration.draw-fps

to display a pink 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