Ask HN: Which Firefox addons you can't live without

[awa]

I was reading the discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1359220 and found that I had never heard of the Tree Style Tab and some other addons a few people were talking about. SO I was wondering what all great addons I might be missing.

I have flashblock, delicious, IE Tabs, Firebug and JS debugger installed on my firefox.

[megamark16]

Firebug and Download Helper are my two must haves. TamperData is a good one too, when Firebug isn't quite giving me enough information about what's crossing the wire. Also if you're using a proxy server I'd recommend FoxyProxy.

[scorpioxy]

Depends, I have several profiles for doing different things. These are the ones that survived so far, so they must be the ones that are important("can't live without" is a strong phrase)

- Normal use: Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, Flashblock, Greasemonkey, Session Manager, TreeStyleTabs and User Agent Switcher.

- Development: Firebug, Httpfox, User Agent Switcher, Web Developer and YSlow

I separate them because of performance reasons and because the dev profile needs to be cleared frequently and so on..

[jmulder]

Regular use: - FaviconizeTab (reduces a tab's width to just its favicon) - Tab Mix Plus (better tab management and session management) - Google Reader Watcher - oldbar (single line design in the URL bar) - Menu Editor (ability to remove all unnecessary options from my context menu and others) - Screen Grab (fast saving/copying of screenshots)

Development: - Firebug - Page Speed - YSlow

[whimsy]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/

BarTab. I normally have a ton of tabs open (Anywhere between 15 and 45) Without BarTab, Firefox starts noticeably chugging, but with BarTab I can unload most of the tabs from memory.

[AlexBlom]

Sharethis: I like using the bit.ly integration

Rapportive: Great Gmail plugin that replaces the ad area with information on who e-mailed you / scrapes their online profile and twitter feeds.

[ghoerz]

All-in-One Gestures saves me a good bit of time. It's the one addon I find myself missing when I'm not on my computer.

Using the scroll wheel to switch between tabs in the bar = priceless.

[mitchellhislop]

I am still a huge fan of the ubiquity project. Still love being able to invoke what is basically quicksilver in my browser.

[pwim]

Rikaichan - if you're not fluent in Japanese but use Japanese sites, it's a lifesaver

[crazydiamond]

Vimperator - gives me vim keys on FF.

Adblock

[oski]

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