My Favorite Firefox Plugins

January 14, 2008 by Isaac

I know there are a million of these lists floating around, but here is my addition. In no particular order, here are my favorite Firefox plugins:

• Adblock Plus -- One of the greatest plugins ever invented. This will stop most of the ads on the internet from even being displayed. It also stops a lot of stat harvesting sites and scripts.
• Download Statusbar -- Shows the current status of downloads in the status bar, instead of a separate window.
• FireFTP -- Very nice FTP client that integrates well into Firefox.
• Forecast fox enhanced -- It's nice to always have the latest weather conditions and forecast sitting in the status bar.
• FoxClocks -- Displays the time from anywhere around the world in your status bar. The company I work for has international offices, so I have mine configured to show the local time and the time at the international offices.
• Session Manager -- Many options to save and restore browsing sessions. You can save a session with all your open tabs and then later come back and reopen everything just as it was saved.
• Tab Counter -- Simple plugin to show how many open tabs you have.
• Tab URL Copier -- Copies the URL of all open tabs onto the clipboard. Very useful for saving or sending multiple links.
• Verisign OpenID SeatBelt -- OpenID is an awesome concept. See my previous post about OpenID. This plugin helps you to sign into OpenID enabled sites.
• Wizz RSS News Reader -- Fairly powerful RSS news reader.

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