Reply to: Firefox Plugins

[al_cam]

+1 for adblock
I also use ghostery, I'm a bit paranoid about privacy.

[doodab]

springpad

[TheFaQQer]

Download Statusbar
Easy YouTube Video Downloader
YouTube mp3
Colorful tabs
Gmail Manager (if it works with the latest version of Gmail)

[Sysman]

Shorten URL (Bit.ly)

Simply right click on a page, image or link and the drop down menu shows an option to shorten the URL and copy it to your clipboard.

A nice time saver.

[Ardesco]

My List is:

Colorzilla
DownThemAll
Fangs
Fast Dial
Firebug
Firecookie
Firefinder for Firebug
Firequery
Firerainbow
Fireshot
FireXPath
HackBar
IE View
Image Zoom
Pixel Perfect
Safari View Win
Selenium IDE
Tab Mix Plus
Web Developer

Must be the longest list so far

[PRC1964]

Firebug, Page Info and Bork Bork Bork!

[radgid]

for developping/debugging javascript:

firebug

[ee61re]

IETab

FlashBlock

AdBlockPlus

Delicious

Weave

[ghl]

Those mentioned + Tamper Data to view/modify HTTP/S headers, etc

[Cliphead]

NoScript

[Lumiere]

My 400Kbps 'broadband' would be unusable without Adblock Plus. (How on earth do you tolerate all those ads?)

+ Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper.

Send to OneNote.

[Sysman]

Plugins or extensions?

Plugins are things like Flash and Adobe Reader, that allow one to view proprietary file formats inside the browser. Extensions are things like Firebug and Xmarks that enhance or extend the functionality of the browser.

Assuming you mean extensions, there are only four that I ever use, all developer tools: Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla and MeasureIt. All highly recommended

Ta for the recommendations.

Since you mention Flash, when I was wandering around Mozilla.org the other day I came across a security advisory for Flash, and found I was rather out of date. Is there some means of getting notifications of Flash updates?

[chef]

Thanks for tolerating my pedantry with such good grace

I have a German girlfriend, I believe 'Pedantry' and 'Precise' are her middle names

you get used to it

[RichardCranium]

My 400Kbps 'broadband' would be unusable without Adblock Plus. (How on earth do you tolerate all those ads?)

I wish the British English Dictionary was used more.

Using FireFTP goes against the grain: using one app as another - but it does its job well.

I still run Session Manager although it is now redundant.

I have a bunch of others but they're the important ones.

[dang65]

there are only four that I ever use, all developer tools: Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla and MeasureIt. All highly recommended

As well as those, I sometimes use iMacros which allows you to record repetitive stuff into macros. Found this useful on one development where I had to keep logging out and logging in again to test some changes I was making. Not really used it for anything else so far though so, uh, probably not top of the list really.