Firefox 2 - Essential Extensions

sra

Only just found it but it's very useful:
Organize Status Bar (found via Lifehacker)

Problem with extensions is that they often stick themselves in a random place in the status bar, and even if they can be removed, you can't re-organize them. This lets you move them about

mr_ouija

gotta have fasterfox, speeds up your browsing

John_Gray

Adblock Plus most certainly without Filterset G but with EasyBlock and EasyElement filters.
Bookmark Backup 0.4.2
Google Toolbar for Firefox
IE Tab
Popup ALT Attribute

John

PS The use of FasterFox is rather controversial, because it optimises your use of the web at the expense of the web server's resources...

woo

Adblock Plus
IE Tab
del.icio.us
tabbrowser preferences

-TangleFoot-

Here are a few more I found recently:

• Copy Link Name
• Linkification
• Smart Middle Click
• WOT

mobfant

IE Tab
McAffee Site Advisor
Mouse Gestures
Colourful Tabs
Adblock Plus
Roboform
No Script
StumbleUpon
Tab Catalog
Video Downloader

impy78

Probably not essential, but...

Foxytunes = Control any media player, via Firefox.
Facebook toolbar - keep tabs on messages and friends.
Fire FTP
Download statusbar

wolfman

John_Gray wrote:

Adblock Plus most certainly without Filterset G but with EasyBlock and EasyElement filters.

Ah how come? What's the difference between AdBlock and Adblock Plus? Not something I've ever looked into, always just used Adblock with filter G.

pjb007

I don't use Firefox as my main browser but I am studying Internet Technologies and enjoy web development so its one of the five browsers I have installed and over time I have looked at extensions which include:

Talkback
I think this is a standard error reporting thing, don't remember installing it

GooglePreview
Places a thumbnail of the website in Google/Yahoo search results

Adblock Plus
Block images and adverts, I don't really use this one much though

Google Toolbar for Firefox
The Google Toolbar!

Page Validator
Checks websites (X)HTML

CSS Validator
Checks websites CSS

Customise Google
Allows for various tweeks to the way Google works

Total Validator
Validates websites in numerous ways

Mozilla Accessibility Extension
I think this is also installed by default, I don't remember installing it

del.icio.us
For use with the del.icio.us website

HTML Validator
For checking (X)HTML/CSS for errors also checks pages for WAI standards

Web Devloper
Excellent tool for web developers (or I think it is!)

Cooliris Previews
Allows you to preview a page without opening it in your browser

Link Checker
Check all the links on a website work, useful if you have a link directory on your website, every now and then you can check all the links in one click

Link Alert
Displays a little icon next to the mouse do display the file type or target window

Quick Restart
Allows you to close and restart Firefox automatically (after installing an extension for example)

Server Spy
Shows you the server software running the website

John_Gray

Wolfman

You have to read the link to find out why!

John