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[Nogg3r5]

I thought I would dump some freshness here...

Having seen that, theres some dead wood in thereat the moment. Firebug and FireFTP are awesome, but I never use them anymore.

[bob]

I only keep extensions that I have really found useful, so I don't have many installed.

[Ryan Wagner]

Hmmm...I like Opera's wand so I might have to give the Secure Login a shot. Thanks Bob!

[Ashley Wagner]

I don't think I ever did list my extensions here....

[bob]

Hmmm...I like Opera's wand so I might have to give the Secure Login a shot. Thanks Bob!

Yeah, it was one of my favorite features in Opera.

[Richard]

Updated addons in my next post

[Ryan Wagner]

I love that Download Statusbar and Locationbar²

[Richard]

I love that Download Statusbar and Locationbar²

There great addons for firefox - Updated Firefox and addons (Am going with a very compact firefox at the minute - The firefox icon hides all file,edit etc.. expect help as removed manually before)

[Ryan Wagner]

You know, I really do hate that Menu Bar and I hide it as well. That is one thing that Internet Explorer does right...and I wish other browsers would follow along. It just isn't needed anymore.

[xpgeek]

I still use it all the time, and hate that I have to hit the Alt key to show it in IE7.

Example, my chosen layout:


I only keep toolbar buttons for stuff I actually use frequently, like how often do I actually use the forward button, hardly ever, but I got my menu commands right there and know where they all are when I need em. Thats my preference anyway.

[Ryan Wagner]

I used to do stuff like that, but I keep my bookmarks in the sidebar so I hardly access any of the menus. I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, and the only thing I ever need the menus for is adjusting Firefox settings or extension options...and that is just once or twice a week.

[DKong]

Updated Add ons:


I also hate the menus. The only ones I use are bookmarks (which is un-collapsed by personal menu), some stuff from view, some stuff from tools, and undo closed tabs from the history menu, which I all have bundled in my personal menu.

I also don't like having that many add ons...but adblocking is essential, I don't like browsing without gestures anymore, the aio sidebar is majorly helpful for being able to put my bookmark bar on the tab bar, I love the colored tabs, I need the delicious menu, fission lets me get rid of the status bar, personal menu is a must, and secure login.....might be able to be gotten rid of....but it's useful for the few sites that I have 2 accounts for, and it has a keyboard shortcut for logging in, which is sweet.

[13 ideas]

Here are my extensions...
They're simple but effective and they don't slow down my browsing.



Aging Tabs - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3542
AdBlock Plus - http://www.adblockplus.org/
Stop or Reload Button - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/313
Tab Mix Plus - http://tmp.garyr.net/
Talkback (disabled) - http://www.mozilla.org/quality/qfa.html

[Ryan Wagner]

I've always thought that the stop/reload button should be combined in Firefox. Otherwise it takes up unnecessary space.

[DKong]

I've always thought that the stop/reload button should be combined in Firefox. Otherwise it takes up unnecessary space.

I agree. Though at least there are chrome hacks/userstyles/whatever that you can put into your usechrome.css file to combine the stop or reload button. All it really does is it hides the stop button when it's disabled and then hide the reload button when the stop button is showing.

Though currently I only have the script for hiding the stop button:
 /* Remove Stop button when there's nothing to Stop */
#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }


Also I've changed my extension list again...but all I really did was take out Chroma Tabs, so it's not worth taking a screenshot.

I also just made a Firefox profile for schoolwork purposes only, and some useful extensions that I found are:
Leechblock - has up to 6 filter lists of sites that you want to block when you're working. The benefits to having multiple lists is that it lets you customize when to block sites on the list.
It's really helpful for making Firefox more distraction free when getting work done.
Answers- This is actually more helpful than I thought. It's especially helpful for students. Just alt +click a word and it'll open up a little popup page of that word on answers.com.