Thread: Most used or "essential" firefox add ons

What would be your most used firefox add ons or the one's that make your browsing experience more enjoyable/safer/faster? Here i've listed most of mine with a short review on each one and would recommend each of them but feel free to post any other add-ons that are useful that you use and a link to them if you can and be sure to say what you like about them or why in your opinion they are useful.

Mine would be WOT - makes searching with google alot safer for me, gives ratings of websites that are submitted by users and its kind of like a traffic lights system; red is bad, green is good, and yellow is go if no-one is crossing lol, but seriously its a very valuable add-on and you can of course submit your own ratings of websites.

And TrashMail - very useful if you have to give out your email to get into a forum but don't want to be recieving spam for weeks on end, basically it gives you a disposable email address and forwards the emails that your disposable address gets to your own email for a user set time

AdBlock Plus is a really helpful addon for blocking pop-ups but to be honest I don't have have much of a problem with pop-ups, firefox does a good enough job. Wish i could say the same for that IE crap.....

TreeStyleTabs This has changed my browser layout so much, it sets the tabs at the side of your browser, giving you alot more space for tabs and organises them in folders where they are expandable, best way i can describe it is like the expandable way that regedit is. Its an awesome add on and can be temp closed so you can view your full screen again but even when it out it doesn't take up too much of your browsers space

Firefox Throttle is another useful add-on, it can limit the amount of bandwith firefox uses and you of course can set the cap amount (you can indivually set download and upload limits). It can easily be turned on or off with a small button set at the bottom of your browser. Another bonus of this add-on is that it shows you how much bandwith firefox is using at all times (again seperate download and upload). Its very usefull if you've more than one computer running in your house and want to restrict bandwith on one of the computers or your own so it doesn't slow down utorrent etc..

Ghostery is another useful add on although not essential, it informs you of any trackers that may be on a website and gives you the option to block them but im not too sure how effective this is. Example Google Analytics is tracking this site (side not: Google Analytics is on nearly every website, its to do with advertising if I can remember correctly)

Download Statusbar this addon is really usefull if you download anything through firefox, it gets rid of thet annoying pop-up that comes up and instead just adds a small bar at the bottom of your screen, informs you when its done and thats it. Its simple and as i said gets rid of that annoying pop-up that comes up

If you ever use rapidshare, megaupload, zshare, mediafire, sharebee, sendspace, 4shared, hotfile and many more sites like this where they require you to wait and then click at a certain time and of course when you go to click you miss the time and have to start the whole process again then Skip Screen is for you



Ok if your one of these people that bookmarks aload of pages and some of them are one time reads where you don't want to perm-book it then this add on Read It Later will be very useful for you. It saves space from your bookmark toolbar and offers a quick solution to save websites for you to go back to them later and quickly erase them again.

Image Zoom is another usefull image i use, it basically adds an option when you right click an image it will expand it by up to 400%, but you can also resize it to custom dimensions or rotate it which ever way you want, its quite a handy tool.

Locationbar2 is a usefull tool that helps to reduce spoofing by putting emphasise on the domain name in your address bar, check it out for a better description

BugMeNot is a very useful tool. If you've ever been to a site which requires registration just to download a wallpaper or view a much needed solution you've been looking for this add-on will probably be able to give you a legit sign-in and password for you and it signs you in automatically. It won't work on sites that require you to pay because that would be illegal and it doesn't promote that

The last add-on i will be reviewing here is a must for laptop users. For those of us that don't have a mouse and only have a touchpad then InstaClick will make it so when you right click a link it will open it in a new tab for you. Trust me this is a must for laptop users and saves alot of time. I've recently gotten a usb mouse and i still use it. If you need it disabled it has a small button at the bottom of your screen you click and thats it disabled (click again to enable)

As i said at the start of this post add more useful firefox add-ons you use and why they're useful to you.

I am sorry, I copied links from google's search results page. It will take you straight to the mozilla addon part, it will just go to google for a second inbetween. You really won't notice much of a difference.

Well, mine would have to be....

Download Statusbar - I hate it when the pop-up download window comes up, besides, it makes it look so much nicer.

All-In-One Sidebar - It pretty much puts everything you could possibly need into a collapsible sidebar on the side of the screen, except for the options part of firefox, it saves A LOT of time on certain things, like messing with extensions.

Tree Style Tab - This is one of those extensions that I didn't know I really needed it till I started using it. What it basically does is put all your tabs into a tree style based on the tab that opened it. It is kind of hard for me to explain.

Adblock Plus, Cookiesafe, BetterPrivacy, and NoScript - I am a security whore, so I always try to protect myself as much as possible. Adblock Plus blocks ads, Cookiesafe enhances Firefox's cookie menu, it doesn't update the cookie blocking url anymore though, you can change it if anyone else has a block list. BetterPrivacy deletes flash cookies either on browser close or on time limit and helps prevent flash cookies from tracking you. And last, NoScript prevents Javascript and XSS among other things from sites you do not trust. XSS is pretty much always blocked though.

SearchMenu - When you hi-light words on a page, a menu will come out beside of it and you can choose which search engine you would like to use and search your selection.

AutoPager - It will automatically load the next page on a site, for things such as forums and torrent sites, among other things. It loads it right below where you are viewing so all you have to do is scroll down, don't even have to click anything.

OpenDownload - Basically, it is like the run command from IE. It is actually the only thing I think I liked about IE.

SkipScreen - Speeds up the time it takes to download files from one-click hosting sites. It will automatically fill out the captchas also. Well, if you actually install it from skipscreen.com and not the Mozilla addons site, since mozilla doesn't allow captcha solvers.

I think these are my biggest must haves. The others I could do without if I needed to.

WoW I am hardly using 2 of them ...thx for the links I have grabbed 2 new addon's hope they are gonna do gr8..... ;)

Rikaichan - Basically functions as a built-in Japanese dictionary. Especially useful if you're looking up an unfamiliar character. No more pulling out the big book and counting strokes.
Also has an optional names dictionary for figuring out which of the pronunciations is correct.

Mozbackup, it backs up all your Firefox and Thunderbird information and settings. Sxipper allows me to use disposable email addresses.

Nice work bogtog and Justdoit.
nice list.
let me add: gtranslate, password exporter, Download helper and RSS ticker are my most used add0ns.
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Illimitux - takes the cap off megavideo. Although, I'm not sure how reliable it is because it has worked for me at times and not at other times. But, if you enjoy watching megavideo and other similar sites beyond their limits, this may be a solution.

I use these FF addons on every computer owned. It seems like a lot, but i cant go without them > NoScript, AdBlockPlus, Link Extend, Download Status Bar, Prism, Speed Dial, gtranslator, Xmarks, TabMixPlus, Stylish, gui:config, FireFTP and KidZui for my daughter.

I use the new Xmarks or Foxmarks as it used to be called. I can go on any computer and download all my bookmarks where ever I am and it will sync with all of them, also I use Vacuum Places makes loading time quicker and Adblock Plus get ride of those annoying ads and rubbish