My new favourite Firefox extensions
I’m normally pretty conservative with the Firefox extensions I use — the base features do 90% of what I want and most extensions seem more hassle than they’re worth. I’ve recently installed two though that are among the best I’ve tried.
IE Tab provides an icon in the status bar that you can click to change the rendering engine to IE6’s… No new windows, just an IE page inside a FF tab. What’s even better is that you can configure particular sites to always be rendered in IE. Grab it at addons.mozilla.org.
The other is Tab Preview — once it’s installed you just have to mouse over a tab to show a small preview of its contents. If you have a load of tabs open all with similar page titles, this can save loads of time. The only frustrating thing is that it doesn’t work with IE Tab — the contents of IE tabs just shows as an empty space… Tab Preview is at http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/.