Here are some of my critical Firefox addons that I always install immediately. Some only have Firefox 3 support if you download from the developers website, so I’ve included those links here:
- Adblock Plus
- English (Australian) Dictionary so the Firefox spellcheck works without that crazy American spelling
- Foxmarks is great for keeping old-school boorkmarks synced between computers…
- …although who doesn’t love a bit of del.icio.us bookmarks if social tagging is your thing (via del.icio.us)
- Deskcut lets you drop a shortcut to the page on your desktop, a la IE.
- Permit Cookies @ Gorgia Firefox Extensions is great if you like keeping control of your cookies. You can leave cookies off each page by default, and just enable the ones you need. (I start by clearing all cookies, browsing to the important sites with “ask me every time” on for a while, and allowing the ones I’m happy with, then using Permit Cookies from then on to whitelist as needed.)
- NoScript does for JavaScript what Permit Cookies does for cookies. Only allow JavaScript on whitelisted sites.
- Quick Restart lets me update these things and keep rebooting easily from the File… menu
- IE tab lets me use IE to view certain sites from within Firefox tabs if they don’t behave properly for FF. FirefoxView lets me go the other way.
- PDF Download stops Acrobat Reader loading inline and getting generally stuck
- Nuke Anything Enhanced lets me remove clutter for printing (or just on-screen reading)
- GMail Notifier checks my GMail account every now and then
- gSpace for saving files into the storage available in Gmail
- MacFox themes @ WebEther (I’m still hoping for FF3 support)
