20+ Must Have Firefox Extensions

The good people at Computerworld have compiled a list of the 20 extensions that any Firefox user can’t be without.

We’ve ferreted out 20 of the best extensions and add-ins used and recommended by hardcore Web surfers, developers and IT pros. Whether you’re looking for more streamlined surfing, improved look and feel, cool design tools or serious Web development help, there’s something (and more than likely several things) here for you.

The list:

1. StumbleUpon (time waster extraordinaire)
2. Gmail Manager (excellent plugin. I use this one)
3. Yahoo Mail Notifier (never tried this one myself)
4. Greasemonkey (add powerful scripting to pages)
5. Firefox Showcase (show your tabbed pages as thumbnails)
6. Cooliris Previews (this one allows previews of sites before clicking)
7. Colorful Tabs (meh, colour coded tabs…not my thing)
8. ChromaTabs (a variation on Colorful Tabs…still not a fan)
9. Google Browser Sync (haven’t tried this one myself)
10. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (a faster method that Google Sync)
11. Session Manager (a plugin to help you surf smarter)
12. All-in-One Gestures (the core function is to assign commands to “Gestures” made with the mouse)
13. IE Tab (for those sites that won’t play nice with FF)
14. Download Statusbar (a replacement for the “downloads” window)
15. Download Sort (sort your downloads to multiple folders)
16. Nuke Anything Enhanced (removes printer ink wasters from web pages)
17. Forecastfox (keep 3 days of weather in your status bar)
18. Answers (gather information from a word on a page)
19. FireFTP (not bad(ish) FTP client for the browser)
20. Firebug (It allows you to examine and tweak the HTML, CSS and JavaScript contained in a page, all on the fly.)
21. Web Developer (is another virtual Swiss Army Knife for coding.)
22. MeasureIt (a small ruler icon in your status bar)
23. ColorZilla (simple tool for checking colours on a page)

While this is an excellent list I would offer that they missed out on a couple of key extensions. The two extensions that I lean on heavily as an avid blogger are from del.icio.us for bookmarking and the performancing plugin for posting.

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UPDATE: I’ve added some suggested links:

1. Tab Saver! (any times we need to just restore the original set of tabs/URLs we were browsing in the previous session. Thx Ken)
2. NoScript (It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site. Thx Kurt)

[tags]Firefox Plugins, Firefox Extensions, Blogging, Blogger Tools[/tags]