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Useful Thunderbird and Firefox addons

by pachi

List of some nice Thunderbird and Firefox addons I currently use, both on GNU/Linux and Windows:

Firefox:

Firebug, Yslow, Colorzilla, JSView:
Powerful addons to debug and help into the development of websites and webapps
Minimize to Tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains, Download statusbar, Bookmark Duplicate Detector
Convenience addons
Scrapbook
Locally store web contents

Thunderbird:

External editor:
to be able to warmly use gvim to compose messages 🙂
SyncMab:
to synchronize (export/import) the address book.
Quote colors:
Colors paragraphs depending on quoting level. Very useful for mailing list reading.
Colored Diffs:
Colors inline diffs. Very useful for mailing list reading.
Sync on arrival:Get IMAP mail as soon as a new message notification arrives
Copy sent to currentPut reply as child message
Minimize to tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains:
Convenience addons

"Useful Thunderbird and Firefox addons" was published on septiembre 13th, 2007 and is listed in english, reminders, software-libre.

Gavin wrote,

More like http://vimperator.mozdev.org/

Link | septiembre 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am
pachi wrote,

Heh, that’s indeed a geeky addon!

Link | septiembre 14th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Ulisse wrote,

Thanks for letting me know the «quote colors» plugin, I find it very useful! 🙂

Link | noviembre 29th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Jon Pritchard wrote,

Just wanted to let you know your link to ‘Sync on arrival’ actually points to MinimizeToTray.

Link | enero 29th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
pachi wrote,

Thanks Jon, I’ve just updated the link to the right URL.

Link | enero 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Greg K Nicholson wrote,

Download statusbar won’t be needed in Firefox 3: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402278

Link | enero 30th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Benoit wrote,

Does MinimizeToTray work for thunderbird linux ? It seems it’s not available for this system 🙁

Link | mayo 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
pachi wrote,

@Benoit:
I’m not sure whether it works on Linux, as I don’t miss it much there due to the existence of workspaces. It’s mostly one more way to make Windows a bit more bearable for day to day use.

Link | mayo 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm