5 Firefox extensions you can't live without

[primexx]

You have a really bad list there:

All in One Sidebar: useless

Scrapbook: useless

Fasterfox: about:config

Session Manager: Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus: redundant

My 5 most important extensions:

1. Tab Mix plus

2. NoScript

3. Adblock Plus

4. Web Developer Toolbar

5. Download Statusbar

[Max Veteran]

Only one: User Agent Switcher. For those banking moments :D

[Nathanael]

Install those five extensions and you get: an Opera clone. =D

[Glassed Silver]

IE Tab

Video Downloader

AdBlock

Tab Mix Plus

Image Bot

(not sorted by personal importancy)

-fm

[yudi_lks]

Video Downloader

IE Tab

Flashgot

[Echilon]

Tabbrowser extensions is the only one I need (Y)

[Septerra]

Here's my 5 FF extensions I can't live without:

All-In-One gestures - Mouse gestures just changed my browsing manners. Really addicted to them.

AdBlock [without any preset filters] - I hate ads :)

Session Saver - No need for comment

Stumble Upon - Didn't anyone try that? One of the greatest extensions in my opinion.

Tabbrowser Preferences - I need options. Lot's of options.

and some other extensions i can live without, but nevertheless they are good

Compact menu

Remove It Permanently

Customize Google

FlashGot

[NapAiM]

strange. does an error still come up with the command-line switch?

I would have to say:

Adblock

Compact Menu

Fasterfox

Flashblock

Mouse Gestures

they are my essential 5, Compact menu is brilliant

[Fourjays Veteran]

Looks good except the part when you tell people to turn off the prefetching. That does increase the bandwidth usage, not only for you but for all the poor webmasters who pay their hosting company for bandwidth used and then have to pay extra $$ just because you can't wait half a second for the page to load.

I partly agree. It would depend on the site. If it is just small HTML pages with few images, it isn't going to be much of a problem at a couple of Kb each time. If it is an image heavy page, it could be a problem if you're a busy website (but if you're that busy, you can probably afford extra anyway). Bandwidth can be pretty cheap if you look around though (I get 30Gb a month for ?5 a month from my host).

NoScript is both the most useful, and most annoying extension on my Firefox. Useful because I can choose which to allow (and thus block unneccessary script for ads), but annoying because I often forget to enable a site, and spend 30 seconds wondering why it won't work. My others are IEView, GMail Notifier and Google Calendar Notifier.

I must say that that list isn't really of "essentials", just of someones personal preferences. Everyone is going to have different preferences. eg: I wouldn't like that sidebar extension - I hate the sidebar in Opera, as I'm forever accidentally opening it, and I can't see a real purpose to it (other than being in the way). There are others who like it though.

Edited August 19, 2006 by Fourjays

[AJerman]

Adblock Plus

Adblock Filterset.G Updater

Gmail Notifier

[mundox]

Video Downloader

AdBlock

Tab Mix Plus

FlashGot

IE Tab

[ranasrule]

AD-Block

Tabmix plus

Cute menus---crystal SVG

MrTech local install

menu editor

Video Downloader

i know thats 6 but i just couldn't choose 5....iam sorry....iam ashamed of myself....iam weak

[Pupik]

I only use two and never needed more.

FlashGot

Adblock

[chillycanadian]

in no particular order:

all in one mouse gestures

flashgot

quicknote .... this should come default on any browser

ie tab

no script

ad block

[Boxster17]

I only used one of those, the 5 most important for me would be:

-Tabmix Plus

-DownThemAll

-Sage

-Gmail Notifier

-Adblock

[gigapixels Veteran]

Here's my list:

Nightly Tester Tools (I like the nightlies ;))

Adblock Plus

Filterset.G Updater

IE Tab

Web Developer Toolbar

[redfish]

MemoryLeakPlugger

[Elliot B.]

I use:

• Adblock Plus
  
• IE Tab
  
• NoScript
  
• CuteMenus