Lovable Firefox junk
I dislike messy environments, and yet my personal “environment” is almost always messy. It’s just a matter of hypocrisy. I complain about messy and dirty things, but I admit I’m fully surrounded by mess and dirt too. I know I have heaps of junk I can chuck away easily, but I just can’t. It’s fine if I didn’t have them to start off with, but since they’re already there it’s hard to let go of them.
To be more specific in this sense, I’ve been cluttering up my Firefox browser with loads and loads of extensions. I actually do regular pruning! Except while I prune I also visit Firefox Add-Ons at the same time, which completely defeats the purpose of regularly pruning such things.
These things cheer me up. But they crash my computer down. It’s a trade-off between my happiness or my computer’s running. And I’ve decided that I’m more important.
Essential tools
- Answers: one-click definitions for people whose vocabulary suck as much as I do.
- ColorZilla: a color-picker, my essential tool for designing.
- Firebug: edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML, JavaScript of any web page.
- FireFTP: my FTP client because well, opening extra FTP program means extra crashing.
- StumbleUpon: actually need it to Stumble! websites.
- Tab Mix Plus: enhance tab-browsing utilities and session saver/manager.
- United States English Dictionary: I use British English and I can spell well, but typos are a part of my daily life.
- Web Developer: godly functions in a godly toolbar that everyone interested in web developing should have.
Useful for the lazy bum-bums
- Dummy Lipsum: generate “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text.
- FoxyTunes: control a media player from Firefox, saves the time to slowly load up my WMP.
- HTML Validator: instantly know if a page is valid or not.
- IE Tab: switch a page to IE in a click, easy and instantaneous.
- LiveClick: monitor my RSS subscriptions.
- Restarter: to restart Firefox in certain situations?
- Screen grab!: save a web page as an image, screenshots without Photoshop, yes!
For the sake of it
- All-in-One Sidebar: load dialog windows in a sidebar, but I can live without.
- Feed Sidebar: display unread feed items in sidebar.
- FoxyTunes Skin – WMP 11: to match my beautiful Firefox Vista Theme.
- Hide Menubar: because it looks ugly in my theme.
- Mouse Gestures: for lazy people that got used to them from setting Opera as their default browser for over a year.
- Stylish: customise Firefox with user styles to make it look how I like it.
If I haven’t had what I would call a decent level of self-control, this list would be doubled the length. And this problem occurs over my computer as whole, with loads and loads of programs that are redundant but I can’t let go. I can’t resist having pretty themes and icons and five spyware and adware removers because I feel like it. It’s bad for my crap laptop, but too lovable to drop once they’ve already been there. Yeah, it’s a part of who I am. 
I really need to throw out my junk.
But at the end of the day, I know I can’t.
