Comments on: Extension Bukkake

Extension Bukkake

mathowie — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:39:36 -0800

Firefox really is amazingly extendable, but perhaps too much so.

By: lowlife

lowlife — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:45:36 -0800

What, doesn't everyone's Firefox install look like this? I jest.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:16 -0800

Sweet Christmas!

By: wumpus

wumpus — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:51:33 -0800

you're so right, I just can't control myself from adding hundreds of extensions.

By: Navek Rednam

Navek Rednam — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:52:03 -0800

Accompanying Blog post, from the guy who installed them all.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:53:42 -0800

I coulda swore there was an actual article attached to this image (this single, lone image...) that explained everything the dude installed, and how all of the extensions more or less got along.

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:54:41 -0800

Where's the coffee pouring button?

By: sohcahtoa

sohcahtoa — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:54:48 -0800

If every icon in that picture mapped to a link to the extension, well, that'd be something.

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:55:00 -0800

hmm. 101 extensions. And he has greasemonkey . I wonder how many greasemonkey scripts he runs.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:55:52 -0800

That is awesome (in the true meaning of the word).

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:57:29 -0800

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:02:11 -0800

that is the best right click menu ever.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:03:57 -0800

So this guy voluntarily seeks to install the top 100 extensions and ends up with this bloated, ridiculous interface. Too much of anything usually ends up bad, gorging on extensions is no different. What I fail to see is how this compares to an IE user who has 8 toolbars, that as far as they are concerned, appear to have "installed themselves".

By: Richard Daly

Richard Daly — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:04:38 -0800

My Eyes!

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:07:28 -0800

I just wonder what the I am afraid! (H) button does.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:08:10 -0800

Can I just download that guy's copy? I bet it zips right along on his machine.

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:09:10 -0800

Just researching the interesting looking entries on that context menu is gonna take me the better part of a (work) day.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:09:12 -0800

I thought that it was bad that I had 17 extensions and 10 Greasemonkey scripts installed.

By: milquetoast

milquetoast — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:09:13 -0800

*turns from image, weeps a single tear*

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:10:22 -0800

Great post title.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:13:30 -0800

Lol! It's funny because it's true!

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:13:50 -0800

Cruelly, the hundredth was the XPI delay remover. Heh.

By: gauchodaspampas

gauchodaspampas — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:14:22 -0800

Wow. I'm annoyed when there are just 3 or so toolbars because it reduces my viewing space too much. If it doesn't provide a damn good use, I get rid of it. I was ecstatic when they made it possible to move the search box to the menu bar so I could get rid of the nav bar.

By: gauchodaspampas

gauchodaspampas — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:16:01 -0800

On the other hand though, I have definitely been guilty in the past of a right click menu that's a bit bloated.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:20:36 -0800

Don't forget the Friends Don't Let Friends Use IE image.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:22:38 -0800

The tragedy of the commons.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:22:53 -0800

Maybe he's using this monitor setup.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:25:15 -0800

I challange anyone reading this to give us discriptions of every extention there is (bonus points if you link to every one.)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:32:20 -0800

Can we see this guy's homepage too?

By: mkultra

mkultra — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:34:09 -0800

Can I just download that guy's copy? I bet it zips right along on his machine. It's probably still faster than IE...

By: SirOmega

SirOmega — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:40:30 -0800

Heh, I use 15 extensions in my copy of FF... ForecastFox, Adblock, IE View, Adblock Filterset G Updater, Venkman JS debugger (the most valuable software ever written for AJAX developers), SessionSaver, Reveal, Add/Edit Cookies, DOM Inspector, Web Developer, MeasureIt, Colorzilla, Firebug, EditCSS, Cookie Crumbler Its not too bad, FireBug is nice, and Venkman is extremely useful as a Javascript debugger - no more alert(obj); lines. Plus my computer has 2GB of RAM so I'm not worried about mem usage.

By: adzm

adzm — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:41:32 -0800

Re: I am afraid! (H) It's Anti-Paranoia... How can your extension help me? It will pop up calmative messages for you to feel relaxed while browsing the web. Don't Panic, specifically.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:44:46 -0800

This totally should be deleted. A generic mozilla link with a single link to an image file? Ban it! Kill It! Oh, wait, who posted it? Oh... umm.. ok. Thanks Mathowie for bringing Metafilter back to its roots!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:45:09 -0800

I like how the actual browser window is just kind of an afterthought down in the corner.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:47:03 -0800

That screenshot is hilarious. Me and my 18 Firefox extensions feel humbled.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:51:29 -0800

Another example of how too much of a good thing can be bad. Everything in moderation. OTOH, my own FireFox install doesn't have any extensions at all. Cute experiment. Now I wonder how smoothly his uninstalls will go?

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:55:10 -0800

He's missing the Abe Vigoda status extension.

By: The Jesse Helms

The Jesse Helms — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:13:46 -0800

just safari, thanks

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:31:25 -0800

Out of curiousity, I counted my extensions. I'm running 23. I don't get any slowdown at all.

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:49:19 -0800

Firefox extensions I couldn't live without

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:55:42 -0800

Any idea what that blue frog face on the bottom is? (I want that. Greasemonkey needs a friend.)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:58:31 -0800

I just tried configuring my browser like that. It's a little slow but it works. Though, I'm pretty sure I just accidently started a global thermonuclear war. I wasn't really in the mood for chess, sorry.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:18:17 -0800

Oh, I found it. Blue Frog Security spam reporting for webmail clients. Well that's useful.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:27:01 -0800

Fat Guy - that's exactly what I thought when I saw it.

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:32:30 -0800

happy now?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:57:40 -0800

At least it has much more sensible plugin system, compared to IE's DLL/COM binary mess that leaves crap all over your registry. God windows sucks.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:01:04 -0800

Well, it's not windows so much as COM, which in theory could run on any OS.

By: tr33hggr

tr33hggr — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:07:19 -0800

My question is, how do they get all those extensions into the scanner?

By: kablam

kablam — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:18:43 -0800

This is only half the story. If you really want to be a Firefox fiend, you have to have a gazillion bookmarklets. My favs (in the regular bookmarks): (1) List all the links on this page: javascript:LnkW=open(','LnkW','width=600,height=300,scrollbars,resizable,menubar');sLFw=window.name;if(!sLFw){sLFw=window.name='sLFw'};sLFd=document;DlnK=document.links;with(LnkW.document){write('+DlnK.length+' total links from:
'+sLFd.title+'
'+sLFd.URL.link(sLFd.URL)+'

');for(lNK=0;lNK'+DlnK[lNK].text+'
'+DlnK[lNK].href.link(DlnK[lNK]))};close();LnkW.focus()} (2) View all the "******" passwords on this page: javascript:void((function(){var a,b;b=%22< %22+%22html>\nPasswords in this page:\n%22;(function(c){var d,e,f,g,h;for(d=0;d\n%22;}}})(top);b+=%22\n\n%22;a=window.open(%22%22,%22%22,%22width=200,height=300%22).document;a.open();a.write(b);a.close();})()) (3) Clear all the cookies given to me by this webpage: javascript:void((function(){var a,b,c,e,f;f=0;a=document.cookie.split(%22; %22);for(e=0;e<a.length&&a[e];e++){f++;for(b=%22.%22+location.host;b;b=b.replace(/^(?:\.|[^\.]+)/,%22%22)){for(c=location.pathname;c;c=c.replace(/.$/,%22%22)){document.cookie=(a[e]+%22; domain=%22+b+%22; path=%22+c+%22; expires=%22+new Date((new Date()).getTime()-1e11).toGMTString());}}}alert(%22Expired %22+f+%22 cookies%22);})()) ***Note, from here on down, the bookmarklets are on the Bookmarks Toolbar, using a single FF extension that allows you to select their icon, along with no text "name" to save space*** (4) Bugmenot popup: javascript:void(window.open('http://bugmenot.com/view.php?mode=bookmarklet&url='+escape(location),'BugMeNot','location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=385,height=450')) (5) IMDb popup: javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('What do you want to search for in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)?','))};if(Qr)location.href='http://www.imdb.com/Find?for='+escape(Qr) (6) Wikipedia popup: javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Wikipedia keywords:','))}; if(q)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(q)})() (7) Onelook dictionary popup: javascript:void(str=prompt(%22define:%22,%22%22));if(str){window.open(%22http://www.onelook.com/?ls=a&w=%22+escape(str).split(%22%20%22).join(%22+%22),%22newWin%22);newWin.focus();document.location.href = document.location;} (8) Thesaurus.com popup: javascript:{void(q=prompt('Thesaurus.com%20Search','))}if(q)location.href='http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?r=1&q='+escape(q) (9) Secure password generator: javascript:void(location.href='http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php?length=8&phonetic=on&alpha=on&quantity=1&guide=security&generate=true?url='+location.href)

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:51:12 -0800

i installed all the developer extensions on one browser instance just to check them out. the right click menu would not fit on my monitor. but i discovered some hellacious tools i never knew i couldn't live without.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:54:39 -0800

Wow. And I thought my right-click menu was getting unwieldy! But now I need that 'don't panic' add on.....

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:25:43 -0800

Tlogmer, that was some seriously eggregious image hotlinking. Two thumbs up.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:26:10 -0800

er, egregious.

By: Fezboy!

Fezboy! — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:33:26 -0800

Nice. I've managed to cut my necessary extensions down to 10. Of course, when I was an extension whore I never enabled all the friggin' toolbars. That is insane.

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:16:46 -0800

I'm at 17 (down from 26 yesterday, when I tried to slim it down). Extensions I couldn't live without: Bugmenot, CuteMenus Crystal SVG (really, it improves the user experience), del.icio.us, Flashblock, ForecastFox (did you know you could get alternate icons? The originals suck), IETab (Internet Explorer inside the Firefox window), Optimoz Mouse Gestures, Slim Extension list (small and simple, but essential for managing extensions), and the Web Developer Toolbar. Extensions nice to have around: BetterSearch (page thumbnails, Amazon prices/ratings, Internet Archive links, etc on Google, del.icio.us, etc results), Greasemonkey (the inline mp3 player is the best script), NYTimes Single Page Format, Sage. Extensions I'm just trying out: Firefox Showcase, FireFTP, PDFDownload (I might need to bump this one up to can't-live-without).

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:45:41 -0800

I've got about 19, but the ones I use the most are Firefox Showcase, All-in-One Sidebar, Gmail Space, Download Statusbar, and Tab Mix Plus. I'm curious how much memory that Firefox with 100 extensions uses. Right now Firefox is using 250MB+ for me (probably cuz I have 35-40 tabs open - somewhere around 50 it really starts to lag).

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:46:46 -0800

Oh yeah, rafter got a few of the other good ones - Greasemonkey, PDFDownload, Sage, IETab.

By: A dead Quaker

A dead Quaker — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:09:49 -0800

Oh man, that image makes me dizzy. I tried clicking on the back button in the picture a couple times before I realized my mistake.

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:33:22 -0800

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By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:46:13 -0800

Before we kicked roaming profiles I used to see students with IE interfaces that looked like that all the time. A class of 30 would have at least one or two. I've got 19 extensions installed. The ones I couldn't live without are AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock, SessionSaver, Tab Mix Plus, Metafilthy, Greasemonkey, NoScript and Mozilla Archive Format. Oh and TargetAlert and Download Status bar. But Stop-Or-Reload Button should count as -1 because it actually removes something from the interface. Most of the bloat in my greasemonkey install is from scripts to make phpBB sites more bearable. Why the hell is phpBB so popular? Do they pay people to use it or something?