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What extensions do you favor?

Adblock Plus should be a given; one of the main reasons I think people use Firefox over other IE alternatives like Safari and Opera is that Firefox can block ads, and quite easily at that. But I'm pretty sure everyone who knows Firefox knows about that.

So what extensions do you find invaluable that others might enjoy?

AnyColor is one I've recently found that I like. It's a quick theme changer, but unlike most themes, it doesn't change the shape or style of your buttons, but really, just the colors. These minor changes do not require you to restart Firefox. It comes with a dozen or so themes, or you can make your own. It can also use Mozilla Personas, which have their own extensive gallery. This extension does have two caveats: First, when you restart and it takes you to its settings page, you must add the toolbar button. If you make a few changes and leave the settings page, you won't be able to change the theme. So right-click somewhere, go to Customize, and put the button somewhere. Second, Personas support is not automatic. You have to restart a second time to enable it, for some odd reason.

GameFOX is literally worthless if you don't use the forums at GameFAQs.com, itself a literally worthless forum platform that 1995 keeps calling for the return of. I have never seen a Firefox extension do so much for such an ugly website as GameFOX. You can take all the best Greasemonkey scripts and the best CSS for a site and apply it all, and you haven't done as much by half as GameFOX does. The site lets its members only ignore 50 other users, which is ironic as they encourage multiple accounts. GameFOX's user highlighting system lets you highlight groups of users, hide their posts, or remove them from view altogether. It can bypass the mandatory "preview" phase of posting, and can add a "Quick post" to the bottom of a topic. It has a ton of CSS files to do various things and includes a CSS manager to quickly add/remove features or change the site's appearance.

Text-to-Image simply converts URLs to image files into a 200px thumbnail of the image, which increases to 400px on mouseover, and you can double click to see the full-size image. Great for message boards that do not allow images. Members of such boards commonly discover TTI, and just drop the link, and TTI does the rest. The admins are generally happy because images of whatever aren't breaking the style of their boards, dialup members are happy, because they're not installing TTI, and those who want to get the full experience of the forum are happy. Works for everyone. And if the forum you're on (*cough*GameFAQs*cough*) is so old, it doesn't support hyperlinks, Linkification has got you covered. Like TTI, it makes something of URLs. To make them play nice together, have Linkification ignore image URLs. And TTI can be problematic on sites with a lot of image URLs or certain images, I think it might be the ALT tag, that makes it render them as well. It's got a blacklist, but what it needs is a whitelist so it can only be turned on for the sites it's needed for.

Fierr is generally worthless, but it makes the error pages a bit more friendly, with a Firefox logo. I mean, you get an error, it's kind of a bummer, something went wrong, and the black text on the white seems so official, so proper. It's nice to have something a little more casual there.

Please, post more. I remember when one could spend 15-20 minutes looking at all the add-ons/extensions. Now there are tens of thousands of them. I like looking at the featured ones every now and then, but it's just gotten so flooded. Topics like this become necessary to keep Firefox fresh, get people on a particular forum who may be interested in the same kind of features to share their favorites.

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Mine are

Greasemonkey W/ greasefire - check it out, pretty cool.
Febe - A Firefox back-up ext. very handy.
Downthemall - A download manager.
Password exporter - backs up your passwords.

@NathanJ79 - I liked Noscript until I read the article linked at your blog. I'd uninstall it, but the article indicates that an uninstall won't solve the problem.

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gmbudwrenchGreasemonkey W/ greasefire - check it out, pretty cool.

Yeah, Greasemonkey is good. Never used Greasefire, I got my own scripts manually from userscripts.org. By the time I heard about Greasefire, I really wasn't using Greasemonkey anymore. The only site worth modifying past Adblock Plus after GameFAQs is MySpace, but they work pretty damn hard up at News Corp. to keep the Greasemonkey scripts to hide and organize MySpace irrelevant. So you really gotta be on the ball with it, and I got tired of it.

gmbudwrenchFebe - A Firefox back-up ext. very handy.
Password exporter - backs up your passwords.

Portable Firefox at home for the former and KeePass for the latter.

gmbudwrenchDownthemall - A download manager.

Used to use it all the time, but haven't had the need. It'd be nice if it could pull YouTube videos in (including the HQ & HD ones).

gmbudwrench@NathanJ79 - I liked Noscript until I read the article linked at your blog. I'd uninstall it, but the article indicates that an uninstall won't solve the problem.

Well from what I heard NoScript backed down pretty soon after the problem blew up. So it seems as though NoScript is trustworthy again... but I never had a use for their software. Thanks for reading, though.

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My extensions

NathanJ79AnyColor is one I've recently found that I like. It's a quick theme changer, but unlike most themes, it doesn't change the shape or style of your buttons, but really, just the colors.

Have you tried Personas? It works fairly well and does that, plus background images.
My extensions that I use the most are currently FireTorrent (integrated bittorrent downloads), FireFTP and Greasemonkey+Greasefire.

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

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Integrated

AnyColor has Personas integrated, after a second restart. After only one restart it only uses its own, but after that second restart, I can go to the Personas gallery and get theirs, and I prefer one from there called Dark Fox. It's on my work Firefox and home Firefox (both portable). And it's all kinds of awesome. I wanted a different one at work, but it's the best (in my opinion). Tempted to put Foxkeh on one. That little ****er is cool.

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Adblock Plus should be a

Adblock Plus should be a given;...

Ain't that the truth. It is pretty much the only extension in Firefox that I use both in my portable setup and my preferred home setup. I use AdBlockPlus with the EasyList and EasyPrivacy lists plus a few filters of my own to clear away all ads from every site.

I make occasional use of Greasemonkey; mostly to put features into websites that the original designers left out. But this only on my home system not my portable apps stick. I have Platypus and Aardvark installed (for my non-portable use) but I find that they slow things down to much in use; hacking my own Greasemonkey script is often quicker --- both to develop and to run.

As for anything else well I do have Stylish installed just in case but I have yet to find a web that I visit often enough and that both AdBlockPlus and Greasemonkey can't sort out. I toyed with NoScript but after its developer started messing with AdBloclPlus' functionality I ditched it; I don't miss.

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In my side...

I use:
Adblock Plus (must have)
All-in-One Sidebar
Bookmark Duplicate Detector (must have)
Boost for Facebook
CheckPlaces (must have)
ColorfullTabs (must have)
CoolPreviews (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Download Statusbar (must have)
Duplicate Tab (must have)
Facebook Toolbar
FacePad
FlashGot
FoxClocks (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
FoxTab
ImageZoom (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Read it Later (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Site Launcher (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Skype extension (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Smart Bookmars Bar (must have)
StumbleUpon
Tab Scope (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
TrackmeNot (must have)
TubeStop
UltimateFacebook
URLbarExt (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)
Wizz RSS News Reader (Useless, I don't know why I still use it)

mmmm... I think I'm going to recheck what I have and why I have it, right now...
; )

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and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report Biggrin

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