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# 1  
Old 09-24-2008
Post Your Favorite FireFox Add-Ons Here

In an earlier poll I was a bit surprised to learn that FireFox was so popular, over 95% have voted for FireFox to date.

So, let's take a little time and please list your favorite, most useful, FireFox add-ons (with links to the add-on) and add a few words on how often and how useful do you find the add-on.

Thanks.

The "end game" will be an table of our recommended FireFox plugs, after a short voting period where we rank the "contestants" :-)
# 2  
Old 09-24-2008
OK,
here is my list:

1. ChatZilla - an IRC client.
2. Download Statusbar - view and manage downloads from the statusbar.
3. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - keep your bookmarks synchronized across machines.
4. Smart Bookmarks Bar - hides bookmarks names and only shows icons (useful when you don't have enough place on your bookmarks bar).
5. WebMail Notifier - for mail providers that give only web access for free accounts Smilie
# 3  
Old 09-24-2008
I try (enable and disable) a number of add-ons for FF3. Here are current my "must haves"....

1. ColorfulTabs - I just love the colors.
2. FireFTP - nice to have a handy way to upload forum and wordpress plugins from the browser :-)
3. Web Developer - this is a must for any web developer. The toolbar is AMAZING!

I have a few more active, but I could get by without them.
# 4  
Old 09-24-2008
I try to keep add-ons at an absolute minimum. I may be losing out on some of the niftier features, but my time is too valuable for me to try out add-ons just to discover they were written in five minutes by some beginner /-:

Open in Browser - add "open in browser" to that pesky "download" or "open with selected application" dialog. Managed to get this to work in Firefox 3 with a bit of patchwork, although I think some of the recent FF3 upgrades broke that again.

It's All Text - add an Edit button which invokes your favorite editor (Emacs, natch) to edit text instead of those nasty edit boxes which are always too small and don't do anything useful or fun when you press Esc Meta Alt Control Shift

Restart Firefox - incredibly lame that this is missing from Firefox itself. Another one I managed to hand-patch in order to make it work with FF3, but again, alas, looks like I will have to do it again because it's missing from my menu once more.

A couple of runners-up which I use intermittently:

NoScript - a nice safety net, especially if you are confined to a Windows box on a gloomy, desperate day. Gets in the way sometimes but hey, that's security.

Linkwad - pretty lame, but I have not yet found a session manager which would allow me to save sets of tabs in a convenient form, and access them from anywhere. I really need to find something better. I'm a certified tab-aholic so my needs are probably a bit out of the ordinary. Any suggestions for what to try next?
# 5  
Old 09-24-2008
PrefBar - to quickly toggle certain navigator preferences and perform certain utility functions: Colors, Images, JS, Flash, Kill Flash, Animation, Clear Cache, Change UserAgent (UA) spec - IE, Firefox, Moz etc...
# 6  
Old 09-24-2008
I use very few extensions: Mouse gestures (because I'm running a fairly old version of firefox), Flashblock (because I hate flash ads but still want to view some flash contents of my choosing) and OOK to snatch embedded video.
All available from the firefox extensions pages.
# 7  
Old 09-25-2008
Few of my favourites are:

## I recomment below two to everyone using FF
NoScript
McAfee SiteAdvisor

## below two who frequenlty use FF & IE
FireFox View
IE View Lite

## Others
Colorful tabs
Undo Closed Tabs
Table Tools

## For web developers
CSS Viewer
FireBug
HTML Validator
Web Developer
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