Best Firefox addons

[hyperdude111]

I love firefox, its cross platform, open and highly customizable.
Firefox addons have to be the feature I use the most and there are loads Which is both good and bad.

The "Recommended Addons" Is good but it only has those which have been around for a long time and only a few are of use to me, and there are far too many addons to search through countless pages until you find a good one.

So the point of this thread is to share your favorite addons, so an up to date and more complete list of addons can be found.

My List
1. WOT (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456)
WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

2. Desktop (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11781)
Display thumbnails on new browser tab with full control on their layout.

3. Firefox Notify (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=firefoxnotify&cat=all)
This addon was made for ubuntu users, it replaces the default firefox download notification with the notify-osd in jaunty.

4. Skipscreen (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon
/11243)
Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more. Try it out, or watch a demo at skipscreen.com

5. Limitux (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=megavideo&cat=all)
We all hate it when on megavideo when suddenly we are told that we have reached our daily quota and must wait another day for more. This addon skips limitations imposed by streaming plateforms. Its purpose is watching without restriction videos from MegaVideo, Veoh, MegaUpload, Rapidshare.

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What are your favorite Firefox addons?

[lovinglinux]

Nice thread. I was thinking about creating a similar one.

Here (http://lovinglinux.megabyet.net/?p=36) is my list of extensions.

[chucky chuckaluck]

adblock plus, fire gestures and tiny menu are the only ones i use. having only one toolbar is great.

[lowping]

I love Pimpzilla.
Gives your tool bars a cheezy, white fur surface and converts your tab bar to Leopard skin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=pimpzilla&cat=all):D

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/398/addon-398-latest.xpi)ForecastFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=pimpzilla&cat=all) shows the weather forecast in bottom bar of your browser. (I configure to only show icons for the next 5 days and not the radar map.)

[ctrlmd]

chatzilla - adblock plus - downloadhelper - febe - speeddial - tiny menu - new tab position

those are the most tools i use

[SuperSonic4]

Adblock Plus
British English Dictionary
ColorfulTabs
Define Word
German Dictionary
French Dictionary
Download Statusbar
DownloadHelper
Flagfox
Flashblock
Forecastfox
ImageTweak
PDF Download
Personas for Firefox
Smart Bookmarks Toolbar
Tab Mix Plus
XMarks

[soliddiesel]

Fox Tab is a very nice add on, which gives an over view of all pages and tabs open, u can select and close any tab u want! its 3-d style is really something!,

Fire Uploader: a cool uploader for flicker, and all those picture saving sites

Xmarks: Saves and merges all ur book marks at office home or multiple PC, i really missed the sited i had book marked at home! but now i dont.

Nice thread, i really came across quite new add-ons.

[binbash]

Adblock Plus is the only one i am using and for sure it is the best :)

[jerrrys]

Tiny Menu...love it...more real estate...love it...thanks 'lovinglinux'... :D

as for my contribution, that would be Zotero. great way to save links or take a snapshot of web pages or even save PDF's and more...

http://www.zotero.org/

[Cammy]

I use adblock, noscript, colorzilla, the web developer toolbar, 1-click weather, and customize google.

[pwnst*r]

for those of you with half a million add-ons, that's gotta slow down your FF just a tad?

[Xbehave]

fission (http://mozilla.zeniko.ch/fission.html), personal menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3895/), menu editor - less gui clutter
LiveClick(rss) (http://projects.protej.com/index.php?/liveclick/home/),link widgets (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2933), sharaholic (http://www.shareaholic.com/) - better browsing
define Word (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/396) (modified to have load,goolge,wikipedia)
flashblock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) - essential
submit to tab (http://dragtotab.mozdev.org/submittotab/) & tab clicking option (http://twanno.mozdev.org/tabclicking/index.html) - better use of tabs


just 10 extensions and all of them are lightweight!
honerable mentions to:
tabkit (http://jomel.me.uk/software/firefox/tabkit/) -great for managing lots of tabs, but i dont use that many so disabled it
Ubiquity (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity) - good idea but i get by with keywords.

[FuturePilot]

My favorites

Adblock Plus
Download Statusbar
DownloadThemAll
FirefoxNotify
Flashgot
NoScript
Secure Login
Tab Mix Plus
URL Alias
StumbleUpon

[C!oud]

Vimperator
AdBlock
NoScript

[xpod]

Cooliris (http://www.cooliris.com/) is great for browsing images.EDIT(and videos)
I have that installed along with DownThemAll (http://www.downthemall.net/),StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/),Speed Dial (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810) and of course NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722).

[mdgrech]

FireFM - play last fm in your browser
Firebuy - a must for web development
Stealther - click to browse the web privately (porn mode)

[thisllub]

More addons = slower Firefox.
I keep it simple.

#1 Vimperator THe best addin.
#2 DOM Inspector. Essential for any developer.
#3 Fox Clocks - if you communicate with people in different time zones.

[mamamia88]

i use download statusbar, autoformer, and undo closed tabs thats it

[drawkcab]

good suggestions...most of the extensions and add ons that i use have been mentioned except,

google preview when you run a search on google, it provides you with a thumbnail shot of the webpage

can't live without this one...not nearly as annoying as cooliris

[benny bronx]

A few not mentioned yet:

1) redirect remover-self explanatory
2) better privacy-delete flash cookies/disable dom storage.
3) quick java- Puts 2 buttons in the status bar to enable/disable java/javascript (I got tired of noscript),

[hyperdude111]

Stealther is a good one, it is similar to chromes incognito

[HappinessNow]

Essential Firefox Addons:




Adblock Plus (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=146b633e426ca01ed641ee52c8fc6cb5&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F1865)
Basics (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=3e7b17e0d283678d5cef9192d48f9811&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F69)
Flagfox (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=f28f10493ba61827a482950f562d75fc&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F5791)
Tabs Open Relative (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=7a0abb65fca3afb69d4a4dc0f20d51d2&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F1956)
Chromifox Basic (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=6b14555c660c582138e025a25e5007b0&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F8782)
Tab X 2.0 (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=6bfb1ecd9d32644f60b2c106cb86375d&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F785)
Book Burro (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=f0ac56854017d038fb673adeb22e70d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F1546)
Greasemonkey (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=7a0821f17568ca145ac92ae73ca7e507&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F748)
Speed Dial 0.9.0.3 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810)
Secure Login (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4429)
Scroll Search Engines 1.0.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3696)
Paste and Go 3 (1.0.2) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9133)
Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.11 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173)




Greasemonkey Scripts for Facebook




Facebook Fixer (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=8c30ec21dd6fe0b85615424be8f1cdff&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts.org%2Fscripts%2Fshow% 2F8861)
Facebook colour changer (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=8357e5ecdfddfe91b4ba8c1e0c4088ec&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts.org%2Fscripts%2Fshow% 2F9475)
Facebook Friends Checker (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=a7e7e007e27b822b79718ed65aca6c06&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts.org%2Fscripts%2Fshow% 2F40027)



Essential Addons to make Craigslist more functional and friendly:

Greasemonkey Scripts:

Craigslist locations filter + image preview (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=d02ef4a668a9d73f0f1275d8f472ce50&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts.org%2Fscripts%2Fshow% 2F39793)
Craigslist Post Preview (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=be672a7628aeb1468d5dc36f18fdb447&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuserscripts.org%2Fscripts%2Fshow% 2F32584)
Firefox Addon:
CLPicView (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=62398151525&h=873c0259f4cd0d411129327be9945c40&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F6807)

List Your Favorite/Most Useful Greasemonkey Scripts in the Ubuntuforums thread here! (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1172111)

[Xbehave]

Stealther is a good one, it is similar to chromes incognito
This is in 3.5 without the need for extensions btw (well it will be when they ship the damn thing)

[Dngrsone]

Anyone know if this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1120475) speeds things up significantly?

Right now I am running:

AdBlock Plus
BBCode
Colorful Tabs
Duplicate Tab
Fission
ForecastBar Enhanced (wish it used NWS, though)
Gmail Manager
Googlebar Lite
Morning Coffee
Password Maker
XMarks (only for the Foxmarks side...)

[Sublime Porte]

Sameplace (http://www.sameplace.cc/):

http://www.sameplace.cc/files/images/integrated-client.png

Jabber/XMPP client for firefox. Also supports MSN, AIM & Twitter. Has a ton of excellent features, and can even be popped out to act as a stand alone messaging client. And the ability to make your own scripts.

[lovinglinux]

I have to add a new extension called GReader Popup (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11072). It adds a Google Reader popup, accessible from every tab via shortcut (See attachment)

I have created an easystroke shortcut to open/close it, so it's pretty easy to view feeds while browsing pages. It's freaking awesome.

[ufreader]

Not the best extension, but the one that works on Ubuntu Forums.
Forum Preview extension (http://tech4computer.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/forum-preview-shows-photo-gallery-and-last-post/) . One of best in the sense that it enhances the site you spend time on. Hope some (its not for everyone) of you will like it. I used ubuntuforums.org site to test it when I was developing it. I liked the ubuntu forum color scheme.

If you are using any Craigslist extension then compare that with my Craigslist Peek.

I haven't tried it on linux though. I have xubuntu installed on ps3 but have disconnected it from internet as am afraid of the sony ps3 firmware update wiping out the otherOS functionality.