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The reason Firefox is so popular is not because of its already good browsing capabilities, it is because of the add ons available for it, that make the browser an extension of you. Wow. That last sentence was awesome how I worded that, wasn't it? Like inspiring, or something... Anyway, these are the add ons that I felt amplified my browsing experience.
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alright, as the title said, these are little add ons that anyone with firefox should have, no matter how unfun and uptight you are. These include: WOT (web of trust), Ad Block Plus, and... that's it.
WOT tells you how safe those sites you visit are. It takes up no room at all. It is a green circle at best, and the more unsafe a site is, the closer it goes to the color red. If a site is code red, it will warn you of this before you enter the site.
Ad Block Plus disables most ads, and if it misses any, all you have to do is right click the ad and select the Ad Block Plus and disable it forever!
WOT tells you how safe those sites you visit are. It takes up no room at all. It is a green circle at best, and the more unsafe a site is, the closer it goes to the color red. If a site is code red, it will warn you of this before you enter the site.
Ad Block Plus disables most ads, and if it misses any, all you have to do is right click the ad and select the Ad Block Plus and disable it forever!
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Pornzilla makes it go round just a little bit faster.
Thankfully, even surfers NOT into "that" corner of the web can benifit from some of the collected add-ons there.
In particular, "For numbered pages or images: increment and decrement (change last number in URL by 1)" is pretty useful for any site that names pages numerically. eg. On-line comic strips..other instruction sites(with page names like casting01.htm, casting02.htm...). also of note, as a bookmarklet, this add-on also works in IE, Opera, etc.
spiderzilla - Download entire web sites. is pretty nice also(even though i prefer the Scrapbook extention myself)
And finally, I highly recomend "Launchy - Open links to video files in an external player, streaming" combined with VLC.
Finally, for piece of mind, I'd also point to "Uncheck "Show the Downloads window when download a file" in Options > Main. This way, the Downloads window won't pop up every time you save an image" as that particular behavior(curretly marked by mozilla as "will never be fixed") really irks me.
Spiderzilla
Linky
Though "Last developed on" dates for both are sorta old. If they work, great, if not, be forewarned it's probably a "new firefox version" issue.
MediaPlayerConnectivity
MPC add-on is great, in my mind, as it lets me do silly things like pipe streams to VLC or some external flash player instead of playing it back in-browser, with the sites enforced control limits(there are legitimate reasons, aren't there? Streaming Hulu to my network connected TV can't be the only reason).
With the Increment and Decrement bookmarklettes... It's fairly simple Javascript. If you know anyone that does any programming, they can put your mind to rest as to them not being viruses(or even likely to lead you into a virus) I probably should have linked to The home bookmarklette site and individual Firefox extentions, instead of the pornzilla site. Less likely to make people run in fear to their virus scanner, and a bit more kiddie friendly(though if they're on the internet, odds are they already have seen more porn than you could shake a stick at)
Mea culpa
Supergratz on finding the Speeddial extention. That was one BIG item that I thought Opera HAD over firefox in terms of useability