Would also like to mention FireGPG (useful for pgp signing gmails), Me.dium (innovative but not too useful), ScribeFire (for managing & posting blog entries), Google Gears & Notebook.

Would also like to mention FireGPG (useful for pgp signing gmails), Me.dium (innovative but not too useful), ScribeFire (for managing & posting blog entries), Google Gears & Notebook.

Nÿco
xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr

Nÿco
xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr

- ‘Adblock Plus’, ‘Flashblock’, and ‘Fasterfox’: Adblock Plus blocks general ads (except for Google Ads because I added an exception to the filter to reward good ad systems). Flashblock stops all those ads that use Flash and make one feel close to having a seizure. I only use Fasterfox because its popup blocker is better than the one Firefox ships with. Firefox use to have a great popup blocker until advertisers figured out a way around it.

- ‘Add Bookmark Here’: I have many bookmarks in folders and this adds an option to each folder to place a bookmark in it, thus skipping the dialogue box step.

- ‘Flat Bookmark Editing’: Another bookmark extension. This one allows me to easily edit individual bookmarks without having to open up a dialogue box.

- ‘All-in-One Sidebar’: This addon makes dealing with bookmarks, history, and extensions faster, easier, and cleaner by keeping all of them off to the left side.

- ‘Amazing Media Browser’ and ‘Ook? Video Ook’: I use Amazing Media Browser to grab multimedia like games and YouTube off the web. If that media is somehow protected, I use Ook? Video Ook to capture it. Ook? Video Ook isn’t as versitile as VideoDownloader, but Ook? Video Ook doesn’t rely on a server that sometimes goes down either.

-’Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics’: Sometimes my Internet connection stops working and I want to test whether or not Firefox, the PC, the modem, or the DSL company is to blame.

- ‘BugMeNot’: I use this to get around all those register firewalls that newspapers put up.

- ‘Calculator’: A calculator that works better and starts up faster than the one that comes with Windows XP.

- ‘Codetch’: I don’t exactly use this, but I keep it around because some day this web developer application extension may get good.

- ‘FEBE’ and ‘CLEO’: I use these to backup and compress my extensions when I use the MozBackup utility to backup the rest of my profile.

- ‘Converter’: For all those odd times when one needs to convert metric into English measurements.

- ‘CookieSafe’: Because the redesigned Firefox 2 options panel no longer has a block for 3rd party cookies. Yes, yes, I know, the whole “block 3rd party cookies” thing is not a complete security solution, but it is a stupidly simple first line of defense and I like the option.

- ‘Copy as HTML Link’, ‘Copy Plain Text’, and ‘Copy URL +’: For various times when I need to copy set information and don’t want to spend time dinking around in Word for the millionth time doing the same format.

- ‘Download Manager Tweak’ and ‘FlashGot’: Firefox has one of the poorest designed, most unstable download managers I’ve ever seen. The standard UI for Firefox is poorly layed out to see all usable options. Sometimes Firefox stops downloading or seems to hicup during a download causing the file to be corrupted. Download Manager Tweak makes it usable and FlashGot is for files I don’t trust to it.

- ‘Dugged’: I know there is a Greasemonkey script to do this, but I’m not interested in installing Greasemonkey for one tweak to make Digg’s Duggmirror link visible.

- ‘ErrorZilla Mod’: This makes Firefox’s 404 page more informative to help find backups in caches of the page I’m looking for.

- ‘Extension List Dumper’: I used this to dump my extensions’ names to the clipboard to start making this list.

- ‘FireFTP’: Great on the fly way to upload webpages to my website.

- ‘IE Tab’, ‘IE View Lite’, and ‘FirefoxView’: I use IE Tab to change rendering engines on webpages I know are coming out wrong or say to use IE and I have Firefox open. I use IE View Lite to open up webpages that I think or know will crash Firefox. I use to use FirefoxView a lot when I was weening myself off IE and still keep it around to jump into Firefox quickly from IE.

- ‘Image Toolbar’: Great for bringing up common image tasks like saving and copying without right clicking.

- ‘keyconfig’: Since extensions use the same hotkeys over and over, this is a great way to reassign hotkeys.

- ‘Linkification’: Recently got this one. It seems to work in turning plain text that it recognizes into hyperlinks that can be quickly clicked.

- ‘Nightly Tester Tools’: I test Firefox betas and this is a great extension to get my extensions working again if all they need is version bump.

- ‘Paste and Go’: Who needs the URL/search box go button when you can just right click then paste and go at the same time.

- ‘PDF Download’: Allows me to download PDFs because Firefox freezes for up to ten minutes on my system while opening a PDF.

- ‘Print Hint’: Another one I recently got. I don’t use this to print so much as to find the hidden printer friendly pages some professional websites create when one hits the print button (you know, the ones with out ads and a sane, easy to read layout).

- ‘Resizable Form Fields’: Another one I recently got. The ability to resize text boxes and form fields on webpages makes it a lot easier to use them.

- ‘Restarter’: Adds the ability to restart Firefox at any time. This great when Firefox’s memory leak/memory feature climbs to 500 MB on my 768 MB system and starts to freeze everything. Not to give you guys a hard time about memory, but it does happen when I open up more than one window and/with more than 60 tabs.

- ‘Sage’: simple to use RSS Reader.

- ‘Screen grab!’: Firefox’s “Save Page As” function creates a messy HTML document and folder. Sometimes printing a page off as a PDF doesn’t work well or make it easy to display, so Screen grab creates an image of the webpage for easy use.

- ‘StumbleUpon’: For all those times when the Internet starts to feel boring.

- ‘Tab Mix Plus’: Firefox’s tab feature is too basic and session saver feature too primative for me. I like to display tabs in three rows instead of using the native scroll setup. The Tab Mix Plus sesson saver feature has never produced blank tabs instead of the previous webpages for me like Firefox’s native session saver feature has. It can be annoying trying to remember what webpage previously went in it what blank tab. Of course I’m not quite sure why, with my configuration, that blank tab thing happened to begin with or if it will continue to happen. I’ll have to see if Firefox 3 has any great improvements in this area.

- ‘ViewSourceWith’: The one killer feature that kept me on IE 6 for so long was the ability to open up a webpage’s source code in Notepad and save it to my desktop after playing with it and altering it. Firefox’s native view source functionality can never replace that freedom. This extension allows me to pick Notepad or anything else as my alternative source code viewer.

- ‘Adblock Plus’, ‘Flashblock’, and ‘Fasterfox’: Adblock Plus blocks general ads (except for Google Ads because I added an exception to the filter to reward good ad systems). Flashblock stops all those ads that use Flash and make one feel close to having a seizure. I only use Fasterfox because its popup blocker is better than the one Firefox ships with. Firefox use to have a great popup blocker until advertisers figured out a way around it.

- ‘Add Bookmark Here’: I have many bookmarks in folders and this adds an option to each folder to place a bookmark in it, thus skipping the dialogue box step.

- ‘Flat Bookmark Editing’: Another bookmark extension. This one allows me to easily edit individual bookmarks without having to open up a dialogue box.

- ‘All-in-One Sidebar’: This addon makes dealing with bookmarks, history, and extensions faster, easier, and cleaner by keeping all of them off to the left side.

- ‘Amazing Media Browser’ and ‘Ook? Video Ook’: I use Amazing Media Browser to grab multimedia like games and YouTube off the web. If that media is somehow protected, I use Ook? Video Ook to capture it. Ook? Video Ook isn’t as versitile as VideoDownloader, but Ook? Video Ook doesn’t rely on a server that sometimes goes down either.

-’Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics’: Sometimes my Internet connection stops working and I want to test whether or not Firefox, the PC, the modem, or the DSL company is to blame.

- ‘BugMeNot’: I use this to get around all those register firewalls that newspapers put up.

- ‘Calculator’: A calculator that works better and starts up faster than the one that comes with Windows XP.

- ‘Codetch’: I don’t exactly use this, but I keep it around because some day this web developer application extension may get good.

- ‘FEBE’ and ‘CLEO’: I use these to backup and compress my extensions when I use the MozBackup utility to backup the rest of my profile.

- ‘Converter’: For all those odd times when one needs to convert metric into English measurements.

- ‘CookieSafe’: Because the redesigned Firefox 2 options panel no longer has a block for 3rd party cookies. Yes, yes, I know, the whole “block 3rd party cookies” thing is not a complete security solution, but it is a stupidly simple first line of defense and I like the option.

- ‘Copy as HTML Link’, ‘Copy Plain Text’, and ‘Copy URL +’: For various times when I need to copy set information and don’t want to spend time dinking around in Word for the millionth time doing the same format.

- ‘Download Manager Tweak’ and ‘FlashGot’: Firefox has one of the poorest designed, most unstable download managers I’ve ever seen. The standard UI for Firefox is poorly layed out to see all usable options. Sometimes Firefox stops downloading or seems to hicup during a download causing the file to be corrupted. Download Manager Tweak makes it usable and FlashGot is for files I don’t trust to it.

- ‘Dugged’: I know there is a Greasemonkey script to do this, but I’m not interested in installing Greasemonkey for one tweak to make Digg’s Duggmirror link visible.

- ‘ErrorZilla Mod’: This makes Firefox’s 404 page more informative to help find backups in caches of the page I’m looking for.

- ‘Extension List Dumper’: I used this to dump my extensions’ names to the clipboard to start making this list.

- ‘FireFTP’: Great on the fly way to upload webpages to my website.

- ‘IE Tab’, ‘IE View Lite’, and ‘FirefoxView’: I use IE Tab to change rendering engines on webpages I know are coming out wrong or say to use IE and I have Firefox open. I use IE View Lite to open up webpages that I think or know will crash Firefox. I use to use FirefoxView a lot when I was weening myself off IE and still keep it around to jump into Firefox quickly from IE.

- ‘Image Toolbar’: Great for bringing up common image tasks like saving and copying without right clicking.

- ‘keyconfig’: Since extensions use the same hotkeys over and over, this is a great way to reassign hotkeys.

- ‘Linkification’: Recently got this one. It seems to work in turning plain text that it recognizes into hyperlinks that can be quickly clicked.

- ‘Nightly Tester Tools’: I test Firefox betas and this is a great extension to get my extensions working again if all they need is version bump.

- ‘Paste and Go’: Who needs the URL/search box go button when you can just right click then paste and go at the same time.

- ‘PDF Download’: Allows me to download PDFs because Firefox freezes for up to ten minutes on my system while opening a PDF.

- ‘Print Hint’: Another one I recently got. I don’t use this to print so much as to find the hidden printer friendly pages some professional websites create when one hits the print button (you know, the ones with out ads and a sane, easy to read layout).

- ‘Resizable Form Fields’: Another one I recently got. The ability to resize text boxes and form fields on webpages makes it a lot easier to use them.

- ‘Restarter’: Adds the ability to restart Firefox at any time. This great when Firefox’s memory leak/memory feature climbs to 500 MB on my 768 MB system and starts to freeze everything. Not to give you guys a hard time about memory, but it does happen when I open up more than one window and/with more than 60 tabs.

- ‘Sage’: simple to use RSS Reader.

- ‘Screen grab!’: Firefox’s “Save Page As” function creates a messy HTML document and folder. Sometimes printing a page off as a PDF doesn’t work well or make it easy to display, so Screen grab creates an image of the webpage for easy use.

- ‘StumbleUpon’: For all those times when the Internet starts to feel boring.

- ‘Tab Mix Plus’: Firefox’s tab feature is too basic and session saver feature too primative for me. I like to display tabs in three rows instead of using the native scroll setup. The Tab Mix Plus sesson saver feature has never produced blank tabs instead of the previous webpages for me like Firefox’s native session saver feature has. It can be annoying trying to remember what webpage previously went in it what blank tab. Of course I’m not quite sure why, with my configuration, that blank tab thing happened to begin with or if it will continue to happen. I’ll have to see if Firefox 3 has any great improvements in this area.

- ‘ViewSourceWith’: The one killer feature that kept me on IE 6 for so long was the ability to open up a webpage’s source code in Notepad and save it to my desktop after playing with it and altering it. Firefox’s native view source functionality can never replace that freedom. This extension allows me to pick Notepad or anything else as my alternative source code viewer.

Chatzilla – Excellent IRC client. Its great to have multi-platform IRC client, that works they way you think it should.

Flashblock – Its clean, its simple, and it works like a charm.

StumbleUpon – Just brilliant. Kudos to the people who made this. Right when you think you surfed it all, and you beat the internet end boss – just Stumble! This extensions has opened valleys and corners of the internet I never knew existed. You literally ‘surf’ the net with this thing.

Chatzilla – Excellent IRC client. Its great to have multi-platform IRC client, that works they way you think it should.

Flashblock – Its clean, its simple, and it works like a charm.

StumbleUpon – Just brilliant. Kudos to the people who made this. Right when you think you surfed it all, and you beat the internet end boss – just Stumble! This extensions has opened valleys and corners of the internet I never knew existed. You literally ‘surf’ the net with this thing.

Drag de Go allows you to drag and drop a link, a bit of highlighted text, or an image, and have the link be opened in a new tab, the text be searched for by the default engine in a new tab, and the image be opened in a new tab. It’s a must-have for laptop users without a mouse. Its options are a little too extensive, I think, but I turn off all but the described functionality.

Image Zoom has the most useful UI of any extension I know. The best way to use it is to set it up so that you can right-click on an image and then scroll with the scroll bar and have the image resize in-place. It’s brilliant in its intuitiveness and ease-of-use. I use it without thinking, but any time I’m showing someone something, I zoom in or out, and they’re always very impressed.

Google Browser Sync
It synchronises cookies/bookmarks/history between all browsers where you install it. It uses google servers to store the data (encrypted) to do this. I couldn’t work on multiple machines without it.

Context Search
This is a feature which should be in Firefox as standard (as the code footprint would be tiny and useful to everyone. Basically if you highlight some text and right click, Normally in Firefox a “Search for…” option will appear and it will perform a Google search. Context search changes this to a list of all your installed search engines so you pick what to search with, e.g. highlight an interesting word, right click, search for it using eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube etc.

Final thing, as you said you have moderation turned on, have you looked at Akismet? It is a free anti-comment spam tool for WordPress. I switched it on and found it so effective I didn’t need to moderate my comments any more. My blog is pretty quiet but it is worth a look if you haven’t seen it already

Rj :-)

Innovative, would be Something like Location2 & Firebug

Drag de Go allows you to drag and drop a link, a bit of highlighted text, or an image, and have the link be opened in a new tab, the text be searched for by the default engine in a new tab, and the image be opened in a new tab. It’s a must-have for laptop users without a mouse. Its options are a little too extensive, I think, but I turn off all but the described functionality.

Image Zoom has the most useful UI of any extension I know. The best way to use it is to set it up so that you can right-click on an image and then scroll with the scroll bar and have the image resize in-place. It’s brilliant in its intuitiveness and ease-of-use. I use it without thinking, but any time I’m showing someone something, I zoom in or out, and they’re always very impressed.

Google Browser Sync
It synchronises cookies/bookmarks/history between all browsers where you install it. It uses google servers to store the data (encrypted) to do this. I couldn’t work on multiple machines without it.

Context Search
This is a feature which should be in Firefox as standard (as the code footprint would be tiny and useful to everyone. Basically if you highlight some text and right click, Normally in Firefox a “Search for…” option will appear and it will perform a Google search. Context search changes this to a list of all your installed search engines so you pick what to search with, e.g. highlight an interesting word, right click, search for it using eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube etc.

Final thing, as you said you have moderation turned on, have you looked at Akismet? It is a free anti-comment spam tool for WordPress. I switched it on and found it so effective I didn’t need to moderate my comments any more. My blog is pretty quiet but it is worth a look if you haven’t seen it already

Rj :-)

Innovative, would be Something like Location2 & Firebug

– Chris

– Chris

Noscript – a must have, I use it to block every 3rd party scripts but allow every 1st party scripts.

Adblock Plus – my biggest must have, I use it to take care of everything that pass through Noscript. It’s generally a very well designed extension. Not bloated but packs a lot of small and useful features which puts it well above your average adblocker.

Element Hiding Helper – Extending Adblock Plus’ capabilities.

CookieSafe – Nocript for cookies.

Menu Editor – When you get more than 30 extensions and your Tools menu and Context menu start to look like sh*t this one is a must have.

Organize Status Bar – Like above but for the Statusbar.

Clippings – Archive text you find around the net. If you help out support forums a lot it’s very useful for Frequently Posted Answers. Copy/Paste on steroids. It gives you quick access from the context menu and lets you arrange your text archives in folders.

OpenBook
Simplifies adding bookmarks.

SmartSearch
Right-click & search for a word or phrase using any of your quick searches.

text/plain
Provides an easy & unobtrusive way to open plain text links.

Fullerscreen
I wouldn’t use full screen without this. Has automatic detection & activation of slideshows & @projection css rules.

Grocery List Generator
Would be better of as a standalone application. Add recipes and the ingredients they require, then select which recipes you’re planning on cooking and it will generate a shopping list for you.

Noscript – a must have, I use it to block every 3rd party scripts but allow every 1st party scripts.

Adblock Plus – my biggest must have, I use it to take care of everything that pass through Noscript. It’s generally a very well designed extension. Not bloated but packs a lot of small and useful features which puts it well above your average adblocker.

Element Hiding Helper – Extending Adblock Plus’ capabilities.

CookieSafe – Nocript for cookies.

Menu Editor – When you get more than 30 extensions and your Tools menu and Context menu start to look like sh*t this one is a must have.

Organize Status Bar – Like above but for the Statusbar.

Clippings – Archive text you find around the net. If you help out support forums a lot it’s very useful for Frequently Posted Answers. Copy/Paste on steroids. It gives you quick access from the context menu and lets you arrange your text archives in folders.

OpenBook
Simplifies adding bookmarks.

SmartSearch
Right-click & search for a word or phrase using any of your quick searches.

text/plain
Provides an easy & unobtrusive way to open plain text links.

Fullerscreen
I wouldn’t use full screen without this. Has automatic detection & activation of slideshows & @projection css rules.

Grocery List Generator
Would be better of as a standalone application. Add recipes and the ingredients they require, then select which recipes you’re planning on cooking and it will generate a shopping list for you.

Thunderbird Add-ons (currently 52 active add-ons):
- Additional Folders View: Shows a second one of the folder views, so the whole tree can be shown in one view and the favorite folders in the other one.
- Attachment Sizes: Adds the file size behind attachments
- Auto Zip Attachments: Easy way to zip files in the compose window.
- Copy Sent To Current: The user can choose where Thunderbird shall save the message after sending
- Folderpane Tools: Allows customizations like rearranging of accounts in the folder tree.
- Forumzilla: RSS extension which lets the user define the folder to save and the update interval per feed.
- Headers Toggle: Add ‘H’ shortcut to jump through the header modes.
- ImportExportTools: Import and Export of folders
- Mailbox Alert: Shows alerts for new mails, can be defined per folder, design won’t win an award, but it’s better than the built-in function (bug 375717).
- ThunderBrowse: Adds basic browsing functionality to Thunderbird. Now this lets the user open RSS items in Thunderbird if he has decided to only download the summary and finds it more interesting.

Thunderbird Add-ons (currently 52 active add-ons):
- Additional Folders View: Shows a second one of the folder views, so the whole tree can be shown in one view and the favorite folders in the other one.
- Attachment Sizes: Adds the file size behind attachments
- Auto Zip Attachments: Easy way to zip files in the compose window.
- Copy Sent To Current: The user can choose where Thunderbird shall save the message after sending
- Folderpane Tools: Allows customizations like rearranging of accounts in the folder tree.
- Forumzilla: RSS extension which lets the user define the folder to save and the update interval per feed.
- Headers Toggle: Add ‘H’ shortcut to jump through the header modes.
- ImportExportTools: Import and Export of folders
- Mailbox Alert: Shows alerts for new mails, can be defined per folder, design won’t win an award, but it’s better than the built-in function (bug 375717).
- ThunderBrowse: Adds basic browsing functionality to Thunderbird. Now this lets the user open RSS items in Thunderbird if he has decided to only download the summary and finds it more interesting.