What Firefox plugins/extensions should I get?

[CatInASuit]

Having finally given up on IE for Firefox, I have been playing with a few of the plugins and extensions.

At the moment, it's just AdBlock+ and the Red Cats Theme

So what do you recommend I should look at?

[What Exit?]

Good question and if you don't mind I want to ask one myself.

I can't seem to get Firefox 3.5 to keep default usernames and passwords. Anyone have this problem before? Do you know the solution?

[Cluricaun]

If you do a lot of image searching Cooliris is awesome, if slightly intrusive. It pulls images into a huge flying scrolling wall that you can spin through effortlessly. It's really one of the best interfaces I've ever seen.

I also run Greasemonkey, which allows you to put Javascript commands over lots of different sites and customize them to your liking. For example with the Greasemonkey script for Facebook I no longer see ads, suggestions, or quizzes. They're all blocked by the Facebook Purity script. Pretty sweet.

If there isn't a Greasemonkey script for something you can always go with NoScript too, which allows individual script line blocking on anything else.

Oh and the automatic spellchecker is a lifesaver too. I hate having to use IE here at work now that I got on the Firefox bandwagon.

[Wheresgeorge04]

I use NoScript, though it's sometimes a pain in the ass - there are a couple of sites I go to that just will not work if it's enabled, even if I allow scripts globally.

Photobucket uploader - just right click on an image on the web and select the correct option to upload it to your Photobucket account.

Multirow bookmarks toolbar - makes your bookmarks toolbar have more than one row.

I have lots of different search engines added to the search box on the toolbar - super convenient.

Joe

[Cluricaun]

Photobucket uploader - just right click on an image on the web and select the correct option to upload it to your Photobucket account.

Add that to the list of things to install when I get home....

[hamburglar]

Are you a programmer or web person? If you are and you don't know about firebug you have no idea what you're missing. Very nice HTML/DOM browser/editor for the current page, plus javascript debugger and interactive console. For me, doing web work is separated into two eras, one before firebug and one after.

[Elyanna]

Autopager (or use the greasemonkey autopaging scripts)
Lazarus: form recovery. No more losing an entire post or form because the computer crashed.
Photobucket uploader. I use it frequently.
Web of Trust: helpful in avoiding nefarious websites.
Xmarks: Uploads your bookmarks to a server; can sync bookmarks between several computers. My home computer and work computer are synced.

[Glazer]

Fire.FM adds a tool bab that lets you play music from Last.FM .

[Cluricaun]

Photobucket uploader - just right click on an image on the web and select the correct option to upload it to your Photobucket account.

This one works like a charm. I love it.

[rodak from zortron]

I find Close Button useful. A button on the tool bar for closing tabs. Click, Click, Click!

[thirdname]

I like Scrapbook which lets you capture whole webpages, or parts of a webpage. It keeps them in a pulldown menu. It's good for saving online banking statements and stuff like that.

[CRSP]

Do you do any sort of research that means you need to keep a bibliography around? If so, I discovered Zotero earlier today (www.zotero.org), and having played around with it for a couple of hours, decided it's amazing. It captures bibliographic data from a webpage and lets you export to hundreds of different formats/bibliography styles. It also lets you tag files, and mark papers as being related, for easy searching, and has a "group feature", by which members of a group can merge their bibliographies remotely.