Infolister Listing (Main)

Compatibility testing with Firefox version has been disabled from the start of use of Firefox 2 -- see bottom of this page for how it was disabled. 

A descriptive Summary of each of the listed extensions can be found as part of my Firefox Customizations (Notes) at (#ext) [http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#ext]

Quick Summary of my System

Old system -- Dell Inspiron 5000e

New System -- Dell Inspiron 1521

Laptop has a 15" screen (13" x 8") using as 1280x720 or 1024x768 (various settings up to 1440x900), also using Samsung SyncMaster 205BW (20" TFT-LCD Monitor) at various settings up to 1680 x 1050 (17" x 10.75", and using either 1280 x 1024, or 1680 x 1050, extended to right) and attached to the new system.  Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB and PS/2 compatable (and also use a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000)  I have a page on my Vista Installation (onsite), which might save a bit of aggrevation for those just starting on Vista.

Inspiron 1545 (extremely bad choice no HD/battery/wi-fi/bluetooth lights)

Internet Access (high speed)

Extensions (enabled: 82, disabled: 20, total: 102): (#extensions)

Generated Document creation information for this listing: (#useragent-info)

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You can compare older and newer versions of the table by pasting into a before and after text areas online with Quick Diff Online Tool, an Online Tool to do a 'quick and dirty' diff of two text or code fragments.

AVG Safe Search, see directions to uninstall by removing the LinkScanner component, which does not work in Fx2 or in Fx3 so was added to AVG anti-virus very prematurely (April/May 2008).

Disabled in above listing (#disabledlist)

These are 19 extensions I've disabled in 2.0.0.12 on * 2008-02-08
/find bar/, Aardvark, * Autocomplete Manager, * EditCSS, * Extended Cookie Manager, * InspectThis, PermaTabs, Professor X, Project Whois, Quick Sum, RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin, Screen grab!, * searchcache, * ShowIP, SmartSearch, * SnagIt Firefox Extension, Tab Saver!, translator, * View Cookies,

Disabled Extensions (#disabledext)

Somehow all extensions became enabled and was getting an error

and Verizon, Yahoo, Overture were spitting out crap (try these) for 404 (not found) errors.  Possibily lost a dns server that I placed before Verizon.  To fix this now have to change the modem's settings.

Plugins for Firefox (#plugins_oldlist)

Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 NOT AS A PLUGIN
Firefox generated about:plugins list may not be up to date compare to infolister listing below.

Plugins for Firefox (#plugins_ff)

Obtained the following from the above.

• Windows Media Player, by Microsoft

Other Sites using Infolister -- Examples (#otherexamples)

Some similar listings

• »Q«'s Firefox 3 extension list

Script Busy   (#scriptbusy)

Something to test after adding/enabling an Extension: Ctrl+A (select all) followed by right-click to bring up context menu.  Big problem if instead of context menu you get "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete [Stop Script] [Continue]". These extensions are a problem: on my machine (600MHz) and have been disabled or uninstalled: 

• Line Marker, Firefox 1.0 - 1.5.0.* ALL (2.0.2006072201)
• Quick Sum (0.1), presumably good for Firefox 2.0
• Translate (0.6.0.9), Firefox 0.9 - 1.5.0.* ALL
• gTranslate (0.3.1) [30KB], Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.* ALL

Preferences   (#preferences)

• prefs.js (as text), KB article
• user.js (as text), KB article
• chrome/userChrome.css (as text), KB article, element names
• chrome/userContent.css (as text), KB article

More profile and about:... information (#about)

• About protocol links - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
  about:config, about:plugins, about:buildconfig, about:cache, about:, about:credits, about:license, about:mozilla, among others
• Java - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
• Profile folder - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
• Migrating settings to a new profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
• Recovering a profile that suddenly disappeared - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
• Roaming profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
• Dev : Firefox Chrome URLs - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Template   (#template)

The customized template used to create this page can be found at http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_template.txt  and you can create your own template if you want something different than the default listing see InfoLister Help: Templates syntax [http://mozilla.doslash.org/infolister/templates/]

Enhancements to Infolister that would be appreciated

maxVersion had been included for the next InfoLister extension update (after 0.9f) to be able to show the maximum Firefox version that the Extension will run on, which should help in planning with upgrading to a major Firefox version.  Never got the update text to be include later [%minVersion% - %maxVersion%].  Did find a comment though possibly with needed code.

user update date (timestamp) so can see latest changes made (the "Extension Manager Extended" displays this information) which is actually for date installed or updated by user which would be critical to finding a problem extension. If available would put in same cell as author and before the author so table can be sorted -- needs to be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm so can be sorted.

HTML tables can be sorted with the "Sort Table" bookmarklet.

Be able to find and list the extensions icon, even though would only be seen locally and not on a listing shared on the web.
Don't really see how these are packaged, the addons list seems to be able to find them okay.  Meanwhile found some by searching on "/skin/" or "16.png" or "24.png" or "32.png".

To see a chrome link, it must be copied to the location bar, as they can't be used directly as links.  If the chrome link is entered as a link, you can use the linky extension to help with manually opening the link.  The images can be seen as images locally.
Example:  chrome://copyurlplus/skin/copyurlplus16.png and iconURL – chrome://copyurlplus/skin/copyurlplus32.png , 
                chrome://copyurlplus/content/about.xul
Example:  chrome://infolister/skin/toolbar16x16.png – chrome://infolister/skin/toolbar24x24.png

►Compatibility Testing Disabled: (#compatibilitydisabled)

extensions.checkCompatibility set to False in about:config

More information:  Forcing Extensions by creating extensions.checkCompatibility and setting to False.  You are using Disable so don't toggle Enable which refers to overriding ALL deprecated extensions not specific to anything selected.  Those that have been forced are marked with an exclamation point ( ! ) on their icon, but there is no indication on the InfoLister listing (this listing).

extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b     False
is required for 3.6b (betas) and the practice will continue unless unstopped into later versions as well.  References ref and Updating extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, You can configure Firefox and TB to update your extensions and themes automatically, and you can even disable/prevent auto-update for individual extensions.
 
Unable to install themes or extensions - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

user_pref("browser.tabs.closeButtons", 3);
user_pref("extensions.checkCompatibility", false);
user_pref("extensions.checkUpdateSecurity", false);
user_pref("general.warnOnAboutConfig", false);

Firefox 3 Secure Extension Updating: Extensions can be installed from AMO and from secured sites without a problem.  In order to test from another source set extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to False (see bug: 378216).  for more information see Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox and additional references of interest (that might get removed from the article):  Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility - MDC,  Updating extensions for Firefox 3 - MDC,  Firefox 3 for developers - MDC

A recent problem with addons.mozilla.org is that you can't install an extension that you don't already have if the maxVersion is insufficient, and you will see a grayed out install button.  You must login to addons.mozilla.org using the login link in upper right corner, after you have logged in you will see the words "ignore version check" added to the grayed out button, click on those words and then the button will be green, and the next step is to click on the "Install Now". 

If you then get a message like "Launchy 4.2.0 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.", it is because you have not set extensions.checkCompatibility (as Boolean) to False as a new Boolean variable in about:config.  Next comes up the idiotic "This might void your warranty!", written by idiots for idiots -- you know what to reply to that, but first don't forget to uncheck the box.

Another way and this does not require a log-in is to access the "See All Versions" (Complete Version History) link on the add-on details page (e.g. see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865) that takes you to the Version History page which will let you download all known versions of an add-on independent of the version of your browser. [Basil Hashem 2008-04-01]

In an Absolutely Unacceptable and IRRESPONSIBLE behavior Firefox developers decided you must install so-called incompatible extensions with "Nightly Tester" tools and that it will destroy the red exclamation points that indicated version incompatibility. This is the one indication that you had as a tattle tale (warning) that you have overridden compatibility and may cause problems later, and that you might be advised to look for a more current version that may not directly update.  So if I already had it I can have the red warning exclamation point, but if I install a new profile, or help someone else, I can't.  This is absolutely insane.

Bookmarklets   (#bookmarklets)

This list could be improved with a SCRIPT function within the template or with a change to InfoLister so that the TITLE would return doubled quotes ("e;"e;) within so that title="%description%" would properly process embedded quotes.  Using title='%description%' won't work either because some descriptions contain single quotes (Menu's).  Could also be needed to process ampersands within homepageURL

Previous listings can be compared with current using "ShowDiff" extension.
Listing pre Firefox 2 (Fx 1.5.0.7) here
Listing pre Firefox 3.5 (Fx 2.0.0.14) here

List of extensions without details (#nodetails)

List of Extensions

 /Find Bar/, [disabled] 
 Aardvark,  
 Adblock,  
 Add to Search Bar,  
 Autocomplete Manager,  
 Autohide,  
 Bookmark Sorting,  
 Cache View, [disabled] 
 CacheViewer, [disabled] 
 Chrome List, [disabled] 
 ColorZilla, [disabled] 
 Context Search, [disabled] 
 Copy All Urls,  
 Copy Links,  
 Copy URL +,  
 CSSViewer,  
 CustomizeGoogle,  
 DictionarySearch, [disabled] 
 Document Map,  
 Duplicate Tab,  
 EditCSS, [disabled] 
 Enhanced Bookmark Search,  
 Enhanced History Manager,  
 Extended Cookie Manager, [disabled] 
 Extended Copy Menu,  
 Extended Link Properties,  
 Extension Manager Extended,  
 Firefox Search Sidebar,  
 FormFox,  
 Gmail Space,  
 Grab and Drag,  
 Greasemonkey,  
 HistProp,  
 How'd I Get Here,  
 Image Zoom,  
 InfoLister,  
 InspectThis, [disabled] 
 Java Console,  
 Java Console,  
 Java Console,  
 keyconfig,  
 KeywordBar,  
 Launchy,  
 LinkChecker,  
 Linkification,  
 LinkVisitor,  
 Linky,  
 Locate in Bookmark Folders,  
 Location Navigator,  
 Longdesc,  
 McAfee SiteAdvisor,  
 Menu Editor,  
 MetaTags,  
 Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant,  
 Minimap Addon, [disabled] 
 MouseZoom,  
 NextPlease,  
 Nightly Tester Tools,  
 No-Referer,  
 Open Long Url,  
 Open Profile Folder,  
 OpenBook,  
 PageDiff,  
 PermaTabs,  
 Platypus,  
 Popbook,  
 Professor X, [disabled] 
 Project Whois, [disabled] 
 Quick Sum, [disabled] 
 QuickRestart,  
 Read Easily,  
 Redirect Remover,  
 Regular Expressions Tester,  
 Remove Cookie(s) for Site,  
 repagination, [disabled] 
 Research Word,  
 Resizeable Form Fields,  
 Sage,  
 Screen grab!, [disabled] 
 searchcache,  
 ShowIP, [disabled] 
 SmartSearch,  
 Sort Bookmarks,  
 Split Browser,  
 Stylish,  
 Tab Counter,  
 Tab History,  
 Tab Saver!, [disabled] 
 TableTools,  
 Throbber Button,  
 Toggle Word Wrap,  
 translator, [disabled] 
 UnHide fields,  
 UrlParams,  
 Video Download,  
 View Cookies,  
 View formatted source, [disabled] 
 View Source Chart,  
 Web Developer,  
 Wikalong,  
 Word Count,  
 Work Offline,