Pornzilla: Porn surfing redefined

Pornzilla is a collection of tools for surfing porn with Firefox. These bookmarklets and extensions make it easier to find and view porn, letting you spend more time looking at smut you like.

(Not using Firefox? Read why Firefox is the best porn browser and then download Firefox. Firefox, like everything else on this page, is free.)

Bookmarklets

Drag these bookmarklets to your bookmarks toolbar, then click them to use them.

• For images: zoom images in, zoom images out
• For thumbnail galleries: linked images
• For thumbnail gallery posts: remove redirects (useful when a TGP uses redirecting links that sometimes go to an advertiser instead of the gallery), hide visited links (useful for TGPs where it's hard to tell which galleries you've already visited), search links (by URL or link text), linked pages
• For numbered pages or images: increment and decrement (change last number in URL by 1), make numbered list of links
• General: go to referrer (like Back, but works even if you got to a page using "Open link in new tab" and closed the original tab)
• Searching: google, google site search, google site search: all, google site search: title. (These often let you find galleries similar to one you have open without using the keyboard.)

Extensions

Of the hundreds of Firefox extensions, several are particularly useful for porn surfing:

• Navigation
  • Thumbs - Shows the first thumbnail from each linked gallery, letting you skip galleries that don't look interesting.
  • Linky - Open all links in tabs, etc.
  • firefusk - view all images from galleries with numerically named image files.
  • Browse Images - Use the Forward button or Alt+Shift+Right to go to the next image.
  • Location Navigator - Select a portion of a URL that varies, then navigate up or down.
  • Digger - Navigate to parent directories in URLs, etc.
  • refspoof - Modify your HTTP Referer to gain access to sites that use insecure login mechanisms.
• Downloading and saving
  • DownThemAll - Download all the links to images/movies on a page at once.
  • FlashGot - Download all the links on a page at once using an external download manager.
  • Download sort - Save files to folders based on extension or download date.
  • spiderzilla - Download entire web sites.
  • Super DragAndGo - Drag a link to open it in a new tab; drag an image to save it.
• Videos
  • Launchy - Open links to video files in an external player, streaming, so you can watch a video without waiting to download it. (Note that not all video players support streaming video; for example, WinAmp 5.111 hangs. VLC works well. Here's my launchy.xml for VLC.)
  • MediaPlayerConnectivity - Open embedded video in an external player, so you can use features like Full Screen.
• Images
  • Image Zoom - Convenient shortcuts for zooming images.
  • mozImage - Browse images on hard drive or view them in a slideshow.

Most of the authors of these extensions are not yet members of the Pornzilla project.

Extensions for older versions of Firefox are listed on their own page.

Recommended Firefox settings

• Options > Content > Advanced lets you control what web page scripts are allowed to do. Disallow them from resizing windows, raising windows, and disabling context menus.
• Uncheck "Show the Downloads window when download a file" in Options > Main. This way, the Downloads window won't pop up every time you save an image (bug 229547?).

About Pornzilla

In addition to making and promoting bookmarklets and extensions, the members of the Pornzilla project contribute to Mozilla and Firefox directly. We also maintain a list of bugs that impact porn surfing and a list of porn sites that promote Firefox or Pornzilla.

These tools have mostly been tested on TGPs and public image galleries. More recently, myfreepaysite.com has made it possible to test (and use ;) Pornzilla tools on a wide variety of members-only sites. The guy who runs it also helped me get access to several additional sites (normally only available to paying members of those sites), such as Domai. This helped me discover that the Thumbs extension is useful for navigating Domai's pre-2005 archives, for example.