~pcwiz Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Here are mine: 1) AdBlock Plus - Blocks out banner ads and every other type of ad you can think of 2) McAffee SiteAdvisor - Keeps you away from dangerous sites 3) Download Statusbar - Displays a little bar at the bottom of your windows with download progress and info 4) Web Developer Toolbar - Toolbar with a whole ton of web developer functions (CSS, Javascript, Validation, Resizing, etc.) And thats it for now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Mine's are: 1) AdBlock Plus - God's gift from heaven. 2) Foxmarks 2 - Synchronizes my bookmarks over multiple operating systems. 3) FireFTP - To securely connect to my FTP server with SSL encryption. That is pretty much it for me. *Side Note: I couldn't imagine browsing the internet anymore without these wonderful tools. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-670839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Its funny cause I didn't start using AdBlock until recently, now I can't live without it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-670851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabe_ Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 The only one that I really can't live without is AdBlock plus. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-670856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 These are the ones I use: - Fasterfox: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ - FireTune: http://www.totalidea.com/content/firetune/...tune-index.html - Tab Mix Plus: http://www.download.com/Best-extensions-fo...html?tag=bubble - Download Statusbar: (same as above) - IE Tab: (same as above) - Mouse Gestures: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39 - Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 - NoScript: http://noscript.net/ - Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/en/ - Same Origin Policy: http://crypto.stanford.edu/sameorigin/ - Foxmarks: http://www.foxmarks.com/ (I don't think this is an add-on but it's very useful) Fasterfox and FireTune are browser optimizers and tweakers. Tab Mix Plus is a tab enhancer/manager. Download Statusbar just makes downloading lots of things much easier. IE Tab is for those pesky sites that only work well in IE. Mouse Gestures can save you from a lot of repetitive clicking. Stylish is, well, stylish. NoScript blocks all unallowed scripts, which can be annoying at times, but it makes Firefox virtually impenetrable, and when combined with Adblock Plus, spyware is almost a thing of the past. Same Origin Policy provides some additional surfing privacy/security. Foxmarks is a great bookmark synchronizer, so no more manually updating/synching bookmarks between all my PCs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-671087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Adblock Plus and DownThemAll Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-671148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Colonel, DownThemAll looks excellent I'm gonna install it Thanks for mentioning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-671167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 I found a REALLY handy app for Firefox fairly recently, though it has been out for awhile now. It's called Firefox Ultimate Optimizer, and while it's technically not an add-on per-se, it greatly reduces Firefox's memory footprint, so Firefox no longer becomes a huge memory hog when you're browsing tens of tabs etc. It's a definite must-have for any Firefox user. Brief article and download here: http://firefox-ultimate-optimizer.en.softonic.com/ Homepage here: http://www.felipex.net/ Note: The homepage as well as the usual download links are currently unavailable, so here is a Rapidshare link: http://rapidshare.com/files/107072055/Fire...imizer.rar.html (42KB) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-706991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Do you know if the addon works with Firefox 3.0b5? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-707303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobral Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 NoScript, AdBlock Plus and Fasterfox (with medium acceleration) make up my perfect Firefox Suite Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-707456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdonald Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Don't forget FLASHBLOCK. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-707475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Do you know if the addon works with Firefox 3.0b5? Apparently it does. I just installed Firefox b5, (in fact, I'm writing this post using Firefox b5) and from the Task Manager, firefox.exe immediately goes from 38M to around 200K. That's just fantastic, though I am slightly puzzled as to where all the memory goes, but it matters not, cuz' now Firefox is a lean, mean, browsing machine, unlike it was before, in which case it should have been called "Firehog", (picture little flaming piggies chomping on your RAM, saying, "Mmm-mm, tasty, could use a little more "cache" though".) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-707637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 click2tab: Click2Tab is an extension for Firefox. The current version is 0.9.7.The extension makes it possible to open bookmark/history item in new tab when left clicked.The extension also caches recent closed tabs, so you can reopen them with a single mouse click. too bad FireTune is only for Winblows... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-708985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam-_- Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 web developer toolbar / firebug / stumble / delicious / twitter fox / colorzilla / search status / social media for firefox / live http headers / downthemall maybe some others i forgot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-709001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Some of the ones mentioned above and also: British English Dictionary - why didn't anyone come up with this sooner!!! Clean and Close - so many hours saved PicLens - absolutely AMAZING, also available on Safari and IE Gmail Space - don't like this too much because of the way it makes Gmail look cluttered Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-709128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_bon Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Its called the trash can! - you plums Try a well known browser called SAFARI - Fastest one out there! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-727957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Firefox 3 completely PWNS any other browser I have ever seen, including Safari. Firefox has way better extensions support and if you like the Safari look, there is a theme for Firefox that makes it an exact 1:1 replica with Safari, except you still have all the goodies of Firefox. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/94134-your-favoriteessential-firefox-addons/#findComment-728039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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