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Ubiquity (when they update it for 3.6...)
Tineye search plugin

 

+1

 

hmmm.

Adblock plus
British dictionary
Coral IE Tab
Downthemall
Download Statusbar -replaces the horrible separate downloads window
Flash Video Downloader
Linkification - plain text URLs converted to clickable links, very handy

 

Hmm, one word mate, Opera.

Speed Dial - Opera

LastPass Password Manager - Opera (Magic Wand)

Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar - OK you win on this, although I think on that screen you posted it just looks messy. My bookmarks in Opera are tidier.

Automatic Save Folder - This sounds pretty cool actually, I remember last time I used FF I did not like the download manager. Maybe things have improved. Also, Opera has a built in torrent client.

/Opera fanboy rant over.

p.s. Opera!

 

I use FlagFox amongst others, but ol' Flaggy hasn't been mentioned so I thought I'd drop that one in 'ere for you all.

 

Stumble upon
flash block
ad block
fox tabs
downthemall
smooth wheel
webmail notifier

 

>>> Tab Mix Plus <<<


That, one of the gestures add ons, and Add Block Plus ALWAYS get installed as soon as FF is.

The rest, meh, I'll install them when I need them but those 3 are essential to me.

 

heres what i use. BOLD the best ones

Adblock Plus
AutoPager
Configuration Mania
Download Manager Tweak
Fastest Fox
FlashGot
Google Redesigned
Photobucket Uploader
Save Image in Folder
Smart Search
Xmarks
Yet Another Smooth Scrolling


for those that use Video DownloadHelper, do you have any problems with YouTube? When I had that addon installed it was great except youtube wouldnt work proper. I could watch a few videos then youtube would stop loading. I finally figured out that DownloadHelper was causing it.

 

Must say i find it interesting the amount of people that have smooth scrolling addons installed.

Personally, i disable smooth-scrolling completely, as i like the fact that one unit (resistance *click* on the scroll wheel) of scroll on my logitech scroll wheel = one unit of page scrolling.
Also helps CPU usage on my drastically underpowered laptop when using it too

 

yep

I didn't know there were add ons for smooth scrolling so I gave it a shot and disabled it almost immediately. I got use to firefox's wheel scrolling and I find it more precise and easier on the eyes

 

AdBlock Plus
Delicious Bookmarks
Tree Style Tab (Side tabs instead of at the top)

 

For a more secure password manager, try using PasswordMaker. Rather than storing your passwords locally, it generates them based on a master password of your choosing, the web site's URL, and an encryption method you can customise quite minutely. You can easily create 32-bit or larger passwords for use with your banking, for example. The convenience of it is really great and means you don't have to remember a unique password for every web site, yet still have the benefits of using one.

 

Hmmm mostly paranoia i guess.
These are the standart folders programmes look for when looking for music/pictures/documents.
If every media player knows where to look by default that can be handy, but these programmes tend to do things like:
Hey, it's all there, want me to organise it? Want me to categorize it? Wanna look for similar things on the web? Lemme check if it's all legit M'kay? Dont mind me sending a list to my dev. now, do you?
Just makes me nervous.

Also I find it very disturbing that there are lots of people who simply don't know where their data is. Well, its stored on the computer...somewhere, and as long as I use programm XXXX It'l find it!

Like windows vista photo import, which by default downscales and rerenders your pictures when importing them.

 

i switched from FF to chrome for the smoother interface and generally better 'feel' of the whole thing, and the one and only thing i really missed was mouse gestures. I simply flew through my sites with that enabled, and i kept trying to use it even though it wasnt there for quite a while...

 

NoScript is a must have for everyday surfing along with AdBlock Plus. Dittos for Xmarks and I like Smart Marks Toolbar as well.

 

mm Opera indeed, for the following reasons:

1. Speed dial: they created it, and it works like a charm
2. mouse gestures: really, how can you browse the web without them?
3. Switching between the tabs with mouse right click + scroll, the best way of using it.
4. Opera takes less memory than Firefox in my experience
5. Tabs can be small thumbnails, showing active content.
6. irc client built in, as I see no reason to use an additional program for it when i don't need
7. download manager is much better than in firefox (i really don't like the new window that pops up, it's not very user friendly imho).
8. trash can, for the tabs you've closed and sometimes need again.
9. good browsing history system for when you want click 'back', but lets say 20 times

Ok those are the pluses of Opera for me anyway :=)

 

This is the best one still in the early days but will get better and better here

 

FireFTP.
An FTP add-on that's really simple to use.