So firefox holds 20% of the browser market share (at least it did the last time I checked). And what makes firefox a browser of choice of tech-savvy users and people who are sick of IE? Extensions. SO my choices are:
Blockers
Adblock Plus -Blocks ads. duh.
UPD: (Thanks to Apocrypha for that) : Adblock Plus subscriptions - Not exactly a Firefox extension, subscribe to these lists. It updates the ad filters of Adblock Plus every few days. You know, new banner networks etc. pop up every day, block’em all.
Flash Block - well, It blocks flash. On old comps it can be pretty tough with sites bloated with heavy flash. Or on old comps with *nix OS’s. (damn you, Adobe, give us a good flash plugin). And it doesn’t block it completely, it just adds a button on top of blocked flash, when u press it - flash plays.
Bug Me Not - An incredible time saver. Hate to register at some unknown site? Just use bug me not, it will automatically fetch a login and password from it’s user driven database and login for ya. You most likely won’t be able to login with it’s help on paid membership sites though.
Security
NoScript - a must have for your security if you’re using Windows.
WOT - Web Of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. (thanks to Apocrypha for that)
Social Media
Social Browse - a plugin for… emm, it’s a whole social network in a single plugin. My socialbrowse review. Kind of. ReadWriteWeb got a good review of this useful utility.
StumbleUpon Toolbar - StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. You don’t actually have to install the toolbar to use Stumble Upon, but I still choose the toolbar, I don’t like some script toolbars hanging on top of sites.
Shareaholic - A must have for any Social Media Maven. It let’s you submit a page to all of the popular social media sites like digg, mixx, twitter and so on.
Delicious Bookmarks - syncs your firefox bookmarks with your delicious.com bookmarks. ’nuff said. Must have,
Minimalism
Tiny Menu - your main menu takes up too much space? Here’s the solution.
Faviconize Tab - personal favorite. It let’s you shrink tabs so that only their favicons are visible. sweet.
Downloads
Download StatusBar - Iit’s sweet, changes the default FF download manager.
DownThem All and FlashGot should also be considered a Ninja combo for downloads.
Development
Firebug - words are not enough to describe this power. Goddamn, gimme firebug and a notepad an I can make you a website in no time.
Developer Toolbar - a set of development tools in an easy to use toolbar.
SEOquake - the only SEO plugin I use. Shows the PR, backlinks, Index, Keyword Density etc. Very nice.
Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey - the king of the parade, lets you use scripts to enhance the browsing experience.
Better Youtube, Greader, GMail - all make these services.. ehmm, better. Trust me, just install them.
Greasefire - let’s you search for greasemonkey scripts. There are literally thousands of ‘em.
As a SEO I very much enjoy a no follow display script. It shows which links are no followed.
Uncategorized
FireGestures - adds mouse gestures to your browser. Very customizable and extremely handy.
Gmail manager - notifies you when you’ve got new mail, multiple account management etc.
Ubiquity - Revolutionary add on. still in alpha though. Just visit the link and watch the video. It’s the future.
Read It Later - Ever stumbled upon a very interesting article, but didn’t have the time to read it and the site wasn’t worth subscribing to? This add on is the ultimate solution to this problem ;)
What I’ve missed
IE Tab - It opens pages with the Internet Explorer engine inside FF. Useful for sites that don’t support Firefox (yeah, these still exist, what neanderthals) And for developers who want to test how their work look in IE. (Thanks for reminding me about that, Ici)
And here’s some pure link baiting almost useless list of 100 Firefox Extensions.
And here’s a pretty decent list of good FF add ons
And Lifehacker has a small, but nice list of experimental extensions.
And if you use social media a lot, i Totally recommend you to install the Flock Browser. It’s based on the same gecko engine as firefox and all of firefox’s add ons work for flock. Try it.
Did I miss some extremely awesome extension? Do you think that I’m a moron for including some extension that shouldn’t be on the list? Comments are below. Let’s make this list TEH BOMB! xD
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