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Hack 39. Upgrade Firefox Feature Managers

Turn Firefox into Firefox Deluxe with
extensions that upgrade standard features.

The standard
Firefox browser has a standard set of dialog
boxes. If you want to do more than those dialog boxes offer, you need
to install extensions. This hack describes extensions that provide
more functionality than the existing dialog boxes. Expand your
horizons!

Extensions rarely replace
Firefox's existing dialog boxes; they usually
provide additional menu options instead. If you
want full replacement of existing dialog boxes,
you'll have to unbundle, hack, and rebundle the
extensions one at a time. The required hack necessitates making each
extension's browser overlay [Hack #87] match the spot where the
existing dialog box is normally called from and also disabling that
normal call. A complete solution is to bundle the hacked extensions
with a new Firefox installer, effectively creating Firefox Deluxe.

If you don't want to go to all that trouble, just
pick your least favorite Firefox feature and go extension shopping.
You can also erase the feature you don't like [Hack #77], if you want.

Table 4-1 provides a shopping list of alternatives
for you to explore. With more extensions being created every week,
this list is likely to be a taste of the full range of options, at
best. Table 4-1 includes only
well-established
extensions.