What firefox plugins do you use?

[Jef S.]

For those of us who use firefox and can handle a browser discussion without it devolving into a flamewar, what do you use? How do these help you?

I use FireFTP for testing FTP logins and functionality. It's a nice little FTP client, for a basic FTP client. It doesn't do FTP server to server transfers, but I have SSH for that
You can download FireFTP at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684

I use torbutton for verifying site availability. This extension requires you to have ToR installed, more info about ToR is available here. Essentially, ToR is a network of proxies. This helps if you're having a problem with your site, and you think it could be a DNS/routing issue with your ISP.
You can download torbutton here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275

I also use DownThemAll! for various stuff not work related, like downloading VSTs and samples. It's pretty cool, you just right-click a page and tell it to download every link on the page using various filters.
You can download DownThemAll! here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

So let's see what you guys are working with, please provide links too incase they look good

[Tony]

The torbutton is cute. I installed it, but I dunno how often I'll use it.

I've got a long list, but my most used would probably be:
Paste Quote - Wraps QUOTE tags around pasted test; useful in some forums.
DeskCut - Right click a page and send the url to the desktop for perusal later.
Followed by Roboform and StumbleUpon.

[tiolalu]

BBCodeXtra
FireFTP
And my language dictionary

[Tony]

I'll bite. Just what exactly does BBCodeXtra do?

[Brando]

1-ClickWeather
Adblock Plus
Greasemonkey

[tiolalu]

I'll bite. Just what exactly does BBCodeXtra do?

Sorry for the late answer, I haven't seen your post.
BBCodeXtra helps you putting forum codes in your posts. When you are writing a post, you select words you want... make bold for ex, and you do right click-> bbcodextra-> bold.

[Tom]

I use iPox as my theme.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1790

Then I use ForcastFox Enhanced

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1978

I also used SiteAdvisor

http://www.siteadvisor.com

Finally I use Foxmarks for my bookmarks

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

[mpyusko]

FireFTP
ForecastFox
Foxmarks (best thing in the world when you use "multiple" machines.)
JFMenu
Download Statusbar
Web Developer

[uyet]

I'm using:

• AdBlock Plus:
  Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

• Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper
  Fight the text ads! Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier.
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364

• ImgLikeOpera:
  ImgLikeOpera allows load only the images that you want in Firefox browser. This extension is very useful for non broadband users...
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672

• PDF Download:
  Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or to download it.
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636

• Web Developer:
  Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Not a long list but quite usefull, at least for me

[Saf M]

I always wonder how FF actually is faster (technically) than IE?

[Tony]

I always wonder how FF actually is faster (technically) than IE?

It isn't, on a base install.

But if you've ever worked on someone else's PC, you find they've installed so much junk it's a wonder IE still runs at all.

[tiolalu]

That is because Windows charge it on startup.

Try it in linux xD .

[jhsands]

Tony:
Are you counting startup time or browsing time? Browsing time is much faster for me with Firefox on a base machine. Loadup time is quite a different story, because FF has to load all of its supporting dlls while IE already has the entire operating system loaded for its convenience.

Load FF once, then close both out, and reload... pretty comparable. Again... in browsing speed... Firefox spanks IE on the websites I visit.

A lot of people load many FF plugins as well, and then on startup FF checks for updates to FF and the addons. I disable those and the IE update check. That's why I use SiteKeeper.

My firefox plugins:
adblock plus
Bible toolbar [Biblegateway.com]
Google browser sync
google send to phone
IE tab
minimize to tray
noscript
PDF download
tab mix plus
videodownloader

[Tony]

Tony:
Are you counting startup time or browsing time? Browsing time is much faster for me with Firefox on a base machine.

Browsing time. You're going to have to give me some examples before I'll believe your premise. Besides, when was the last time you built a machine (base install) and actually tested one against the other?

I'll be building another system next week but I wasn't planning on connecting it to the internet.

[jhsands]

Built one on 4/15/2007. After many years I upgraded to a new system.

Some websites:
MySpace
Facebook
MSN


I do not have an exact timer to back it up, just appears to be faster to me. Maybe it is all in my mind.

[mpyusko]

I always wonder how FF actually is faster (technically) than IE?

I run Firefox on Linux and windows. Firefox is definitely faster than IE7. On my Linux box, i really don't have anything to compare it to. All I know is with a 1GHz CPU and 768MB RAM, my Linux box blows my WinXP machine out of the proverbial water. Actually, my Linux laptop with a 333Mhz PII and 192MB RAM blows the WinXP machine away. It's sad really.... for my WinXP laptop.... it has a 1.8GHz CPU with 512MB RAM. I'd like to put Linux on it, but my wife insists on being a slave to the man.

[Matt R.]

I am a recently discovered Office 2007 fan.... Outlook 2k7 is pretty damn cool

[jhsands]

I am getting used to Office 2k7. It is a lot easier to work with fonts and paragraphs... and well images and tables once you get used to it.

Has anyone used the XP Vista theme?

[tsmelser]

I always wonder how FF actually is faster (technically) than IE?

Lower overhead I would say, you need ten tons of crap to run notepad anything more complex...

[tsmelser]

Forcastfox - I like to know when my partner is FREEZING in Canada
Tab COntrol
FoxGame

I use Blueshift as a theme, but that can change on a whim...