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[forsyth]

Man, why'd it take me so long to decide to get into engineering? Man.

Okay, two questions though. First, what Firefox addons/plugins do people use and have found handy? Is there one that works to post to LJ? I just installed PortableFirefox on a new thumb drive and want to make my life easier.

Also, does anybody have a suggestion for a good free (as in speech, not just as in beer) C++ compiler/linker/etc? Yeah, I could go download a free version of Microsoft's from their site, but dude, seriously. Especially hopefully one that's installable to a thumbdrive?

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[dezro.livejournal.com]

The three main compilers are GCC, which is Gnu and okay but it can compile for any system you can think of, Microsoft's compiler, which is Microsoft's, and Intel's compiler, which I hear gives you some pretty fast binaries but I think you have to pay for it.

If you want GCC on Windows you should install MinGW

If you wanted a whole development environment, then Eclipse and Dev-C++ are the popular ones. I recommend Dev-C++ since everything you need is in one installer. With Eclipse you have to install GCC separately.


As for Firefox, I recommend:
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
dragdropupload
Flat Bookmark Editing
Greasemonkey
It's All Text! (lets you open text fields in an external editor)
NextPlease (which is really good for webcomic browsing)
Stylish
Submit to Tab
Undo Closed Tabs Button (the feature is in Firefox already, but there's no button. anyway, very handy)

[leticia.livejournal.com]

Anytime I go looking for freeware for a USB stick, I start with www.portablefreeware.com

Much with the rock.

[leticia.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. As improvement for Firefox, I recommend Opera. :p *ducks*

Firefox extensions

[samashahdi.livejournal.com]

Heya

I find mouse gestures

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39

and quick notes
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46

a blessing.

~Sam~

[rev-tobias.livejournal.com]

I run a couple of Firefox extensions that I find absolutely indispensable:

- Adblock Plus (best adblocker I know)
- NoScript (used to selectively block or allow JavaScript by domain)
- Linkification (turns plaintext URLs into clickable links)

The following are no must-haves, but I also recommend:

- Forecastfox (weather report and forecast in the status bar)
- VideoDownloader (for capturing YouTube et.al. video)
- Wikipedia Lookup Extension (does just what it says)
- Resurrect Pages (retrieves copirs of dead pages from CoralCache et.al.)

I don't use any plugins that are specifically tailored for posting to LJ, but BBCodeXtra is a nice little extension that makes using both BBCode and HTML in text entry fields a lot easier.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Deepest Sender is the extension I use for posting to LJ. (The name is an anagram)

FoxyTunes is pretty sweet. Hardly essential (it lets you control your music player from Mozilla; also, Deepest Sender can use it to autofill the Current Music field), but nice. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it to work with Seamonkey for the last few versions.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Dev-C++ showed up on Google searches before, but I'll have to look at Eclipse. I'd rather have something free-as-in-speech than free-as-in-beer.

It's All Text! sounds handy. I'll have to check those out. Especially the "undo closed tabs", because misclicking and closing all tabs EXCEPT the one I wanted closed sucks!

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Funny how the first addon everyone suggests is adblock.

Of course, the first one I went and downloaded was adblock, so.

Linkification should come in handy since David Brin never makes the URLs in his posts into links.