A blog-less friend of mine put together this list of his favorite Firefox add-ons and thought it would be a good complement to my “Essential Windows Software” post from last year. I am posting it here as a good little bit of useful info with his permission. Now I need to go try these out.
Enjoy!
1-ClickWeather (5-day forecast as a toolbar with extended info as tooltips and regional radar button)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1035
Adblock Plus (blocks ads, auto-updates, works very well)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Works well with its internal subscription links, recommends avoiding “filterset G” from the Firefox addon pages.
Ad database subscriptions I use are:
—EasyList (USA)
—EasyElement (works with next item – Element Hiding Helper)
—ABP Tracking Filter
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper (an add-on to an add-on! I can’t tell if it helps, but at least it doesn’t crash)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364
ColorfulTabs (randomly colored tabs, or colors derived from hashing the URL)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368
CookieSafe (better control than normal built-in cookie options)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497
Download Statusbar (download-o-meters as a little status bar. Nifty!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
FireFTP (good little FTP client for the Firefox Tools menu)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
Fission (Safari-style progress bar along the address bar. Looks nice but you have to fix the color.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1951
FoxLingo (translates all languages to all others through various sites… seems to work about as well as babelfish)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2444
Resurrect Pages (finds archived versions of dead web pages — works very well!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
SafeCache (keep sites from checking for other sites’ cached info – paranoia is good!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1474
Shazou (WHOIS info with popup map)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2993
Spamavert.com (generate temp email addresses and lets you send back email verification)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4533
Stumble Upon (nice Find-A-Cool-Site thing, can share a toolbar with 1-click weather)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Video Downloader (lets you save vids from YouTube, Google Video, etc)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390