I’m a huge Firefox fan. As shipped, it’s an excellent browser. Add extensions, and it’s, imo, the perfect Open Source product– useful, extendable, well documented, easy to use, and still flexible and easily updated.
If you’re looking for more extensions than are on the built in link to extensions, check out www.extensionsmirror.nl– not only do they have a well updated list, but members of that community repackage some older ones to work with newer releases. There’s a few old friends I miss when I upgrade, and that’s super useful.
Here’s what I’m using for an extension list
- Show Old Extensions — enables display of some of your older favorites useful so you can get
- Next Image adds a context “next image” and “previous image” item, super useful when browsing image gallerys.
- Bookmarks Synchronizer — super handy to keep your bookmarks right between the desktop and the laptop
- I love
Tabbrowser Extensions, but unfortunately, there’s so much good stuff in there that your browser crashes. Instead, I use the following replacements which give me what I need to make tabbed browsing super again: - Tabbrowser Preferences lighter weight control of what tabs (bookmarks, searches, etc) open where
- FLST Focus Last Selected Tab– when you close a tab, return to the last one you saw.
- MiniT– lets you open tabs with middle mouse, close with middle mouse,, plus other small but useful stuff
- UndoCloseTab allows you to undo a closed tab. Keeps that tab’s history, too!
- One of those, I’m not sure which, also enables mouse-wheel scrolling through your tabs, which I also use constantly.
- Image zoom
- AdBlock HIGHLY recommended. Strip out anything annoying, including flash.
- HTML Validator Based on the tidy program, this is great if you do web devel stuff. Shows you errors, suggests fixes even. Super useful if you have OS/X users, because safari is much pickier than Mozilla/Firefox/IE about HTML
- DownloadThemAll! An _swesome_ tool– fetches all links you care about from a page quickly and easily. Select by pattern match and more
- TextZoom — for those of you with small fonts or bad eyes, lets you override the default font zoom.
- Allow Right Click — re-enables the right mouse context menu when a web site tries to disable it.
- Disable Targets for Download This one is also nice. You know those web pages that pop up a blank window and then start downloading a file? This prevents the blank window and just lets you grab the file.