Computing/Firefox

Extensions

Biology

• Biobar - a toolbar for browsing biological data and databases
• LSID extension enables resolution of lsidres URIs; the lsidres protocol is used by IBM's LaunchPad for Life Sciencer Identifiers (LSIDs)
• LSID Browser extension from IBM, SourceForge link
• bioFOX aims at implementing various bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Mozilla based browsers
• BioMed Central toolbar allows you to conveniently search BioMed Central, PubMed Central, PubMed, Faculty of 1000 and Google

Web development

• Essential Firefox add-ons for web developers
• Live HTTP Headers

Miscellaneous

MIT LibX is a toolbar that allows you to quickly search the Barton catalog, Vera, Google Scholar, the SFX FullText Finder and other search tools

Configuration

• Top FF2 config tweaks: set the network.prefetch-next key to false