Best Firefox Extensions.

Reluctant_spender

I have several of the above but also;

Fast Dial - thumbnail images of your favourite websites - you can configure how many are showing.

Undo Closed Tab - reopens tabs that you close by accident

Marty_J

I did try NoScript, but it was a big pain in the !!!!, so I ended up getting rid of it.

I use Adblock Plus, Firefox PDF plugin for Mac OS X which allows Firefox to handle PDF files the same way Safari does, Fission, which puts the progress bar in the address bar (again, like Safari), and Look Up In Dictionary, which allows you to use Mac OS X's built in dictionary from Firefox.

alanrowell

In addition to some of the above

British English Dictionary to help with the Spelking
Googlebar Lite - takes up less space than most of the Google toolbars and if you use the Customise options can be integrated into existing toolbars
Freecorder - useful for grabbing sound

nickj_2

noscripts
mcafee site advisor - also available for iexplorer
trash mail - disposable email address creator - great if you're filling in forms , you can get them delivered to your own email address for a couple of weeks and then it expires .
ie veiw lite - if the page your viewing doesn't like ff - it starts up ie
and ubiquity --
and foxit a pdf viewer which is much faster than adobe

spud17

Foxmarks - indispensable
Noscript
ie view lite
DownloadHelper- often lets you download some files that others think you shouldn't , also has a converter, but can't comment on that.
Forecastfox
British English Dictionary, spell checks when using Firefox, perhaps useful for some on here.
Bookmark Duplicate Detector

bonzer

Marty_J wrote: »

I did try NoScript, but it was a big pain in the !!!!, so I ended up getting rid of it.

I prefer YesScript which does the opposite. It allows you to blacklist specific sites that abuse JavaScript rather than blocking everything by default.

Other than those that have been mentioned, BugMeNot is growing on me. It gives you a login for sites that require registration so you can just click straight through.

Bonzer

DatabaseError

bonzer wrote: »

I prefer YesScript which does the opposite. It allows you to blacklist specific sites that abuse JavaScript rather than blocking everything by default.

Am I missing the point...you allow sites to run potentially malicious code and then stop them from doing it again?
what about all the code running in the background - google analytics etc...does that just get allowed by default?

bonzer

DatabaseError wrote: »

Am I missing the point...you allow sites to run potentially malicious code and then stop them from doing it again?

Nope, I use it for a different purpose. I use YesScript to stop sites or specific pages I go to regularly doing annoying things e.g. float over adverts etc. It's nothing to do with malicious code, it's to do with annoying code.

I've only ever been hit by malicious JavaScript once and that was my fault for using an old version of Firefox on a machine I don't use regularly (and even then I'm not absolutely sure it was the JavaScript, could have been something else). So many sites rely on it for legitimate purposes, I find it annoying to have it switched off by default. I'm sure people have their own horror stories, but I don't really see JavaScript as that much of a problem generally if you keep Firefox bang up to date. Never had a problem on my regular machine(s).

Bonzer

Pikeyp

As well as a couple already mentioned ..

Dephormation ...
The Dephormation Add On ensures that your decision to permanently 'opt out' of Phorm profiling cannot be undone in Firefox. It reinstates your opt out cookie with every page load, and randomises your UID. Even if you delete all cookies regularly.
Optionally, the Add On can also alert you to sites using Phorm/ Webwise/ OIX profile based advertising.

JOel_2

FlashBlock
FoxClocks
FoxyProxy
KeyScrambler
GooglePreview
WebDeveloper
IE Tab
GhostFox
PasswordMaker
SQL Inject Me
Key Manager
Leet Key

Flashblock is probably one of the best add-ins ever.

Joel