My top Firefox extensions
Here is a short review of my chosen Firefox extensions, which without them my web life would have been extremely miserable. All of them are recommended, and most of them are completely essential.
Ad Blocking
Flashblock
This extension is a must to save you many precious seconds of your life. In essence, in every page that contains a Flash animation, you will find a small (F) instead. Clicking on it will start the original Flash - but most of the time you are not interested in that (Thats because most of them are just ads). You would not believe how faster your pages load with it.
Tabbed Browsing
Swift Tabs
This small extension allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to switching tabs. I use ctrl-left and ctrl-right, but you can choose your favorite shortcuts. Essential for speed.
Tabbrowser Preferences
This adds a new preferences tab in your control panel, regarding tab behavior. It adds tons of customizable options to tabbing - and if you are a tabbing freak, like me, it allows you complete control.
Favonicize Tab
A simple and cute add-on, that allows you to shrink the tab header to the icon only (favicon). This helps a lot when you have lots of known tabs open, which you can navigate to using the icon only.
Bookmarks Synchronization
Foxmarks
With Foxmarks you can synchronize two PCs to share the same bookmarks. It works like magic.
Download
Download Statusbar
Now all your downloads appear as small and clean progress bar down on your status bar. Go away the download window!
PDF Download
With this extension, all PDFs that you click on will prompt you as to what you want to do - you can safe directly, or open in Firefox, or other options. As the PDF within Firefox is quite limited in functionality, this is a great helper.
Video Downloader
A nice extension to download some types of video to Hard Disk. I started to see more and more sites that this extension is not working for.
Firefox Application
Splash
This cute extension adds a splash screen to Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. This makes the application seem so much more professional. Why the Firefox developers did not place this feature (still) officially is beyond me.
Update Notifier
A great addition to Firefox - notifies you when your add-ons or Firefox have updates, downloads them for you, and let you decide on when to restart. Complete!
Web-Dev
ColorZilla
Adds a small eyedropper icon on the lower-left corner, and allows you to sample the color from any pixel on the current web page - and in addition, has tons of other color-oriented features. Superb tool for web developers!
Tamper Data
This advanced add-on allows you to examine forms data before transmission, and change it at will. With it, you can capture what is really going on between a web-application client to its server - weather yours or not…