Not everybody understand exactly what Firefox’s extensions are about or what they really do. Thankfully the folks over at The Extensions Mirror have written up a great FAQ for anybody wanting to know how to do a task with a Firefox extension. Instead of listing the extension first, and then describing what it does, they take the backwards approach. They list problems and questions first, and give extension solutions as the answer.
The Extensions Mirror’s Firefox Extension FAQ has everything listed from “Enhancing the Firefox UI” to “Site Specific Extensions”. With Firefox, there really is pretty much an extension for every situation already. There are hundreds if not thousands of gifted and talented folks writing new Firefox extensions each and every day. Here is just one sample from the FAQ over at The Extensions Mirror:
Some pages simply don’t work in Firefox, is there anything I can do about this?
First of all, it is not Firefox’s fault that some pages are not displayed correctly. Some web designers code their pages in such a way that only Internet Explorer can display them. Your best solution is to email the web master of the page and ask him to rewrite his site using standards compliant code. If you must use this page, you might consider the IEview extension. It allows you to quickly open pages in Internet Explorer via the context menu. For a more ‘complete’ solution read the next question.
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