Your favourite Firefox Add-On?

[Kalah]

I like this new privacy thing that's coming. It's the perfect thing if you want to browse for porn on your mom's computer.

[HodgePodge]

Yep, Adblock Plus for me too. Ahhhhh, such a pleasure to surf & be able to turn off all those annoying ads & popups.

[Pol]

ImageBot is not compatible with latest version of FF 3.0.7 and author's site disappeared either. Mooo!

[Borsuc]

I'm using Portable Firefox 2, so much faster than 3, so much less memory wasted... (using it from my laptop with just 256 MB, it makes a huge difference)

[Pol]

And lo and behold, the promise was that ff3 will be more memory effective!

I never measured it, using k-meleon which is even better. But being on the same core, both can be tweaked from snail to rocket camel. Think same goes for ff3

[Asheera]

Well I have seen a lot of graphs and reports made by others which showed that FF3 is a lot faster and memory effective than FF2. Weird Borsuc, maybe bad config for FF3?

[Panda Tar]

Mine as well. Sometimes it reaches 120 MB in that chart...

I miss the download status bar. Couldn't find one for Firefox 3. I hate having that window popping up whenever I download anything, anything – since a simple image to a zip file.

[darknessfood]

It's in the down right corner of the browser Panda...

[Panda Tar]

It should be there as it was. After downloading Firefox 3, it doesn't work properly. Everytime I download anything, it opens a new window showing the downloads.

[darknessfood]

TBH, FF did that every time ...

[Borsuc]

And lo and behold, the promise was that ff3 will be more memory effective!

Hmm could it be because I disabled disk caching completely and only work with temporary profiles? (cause it's supposed to be portable, so I made a .cmd file to copy my profile to the TEMP directory and launch Firefox with it, then cleanup )

But memory wise, FF3 uses 40MB or so when launched, FF2 uses like 10 at most at launch (I've seen even instances with just 3MB sometimes )

Also my addons are global (I put them in global -- since it's "portable" firefox, didn't feel like copying them uselessly everytime ), not sure if that makes any difference.

@Ash: not sure how "objective" those charts are, but it definitely is a lot slower (FF3 I mean). Maybe not in JavaScript (which is 90% disabled anyway cause of NoScript addon), but definitely in loading pages it's a lot slower. It's also unstable in BartPE and thus I did not take the time to make it portable

[ThunderTitan]

Ever since Comedy Central decided not to allow the rest of the world to see tDS and tCR full episodes on-line this has been my fav add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5948

[Kalah]

According to the latest numbers from StatCounter Global Stats, Firefox has passed Explorer as the leading web browser in Europe. It is the first time Explorer has lost the lead on such a large continent. Apparently, the main reason why this is happening, is that Chrome is taking users away from Explorer.

[Variol]

According to the latest numbers from StatCounter Global Stats, Firefox has passed Explorer as the leading web browser in Europe. It is the first time Explorer has lost the lead on such a large continent. Apparently, the main reason why this is happening, is that Chrome is taking users away from Explorer.

Boy, the classic, "enemy of my enemy..."

[GreatEmerald]

Back to the original topic:

• AdBlock Plus, of course. But I am aware that ads are what runs many websites, thus I only block what is really annoying. For example, the incredibly annoying flashing "YOU WON!!!" ads, who designed them?!
• Fierr. It's an extremely handy addon - it reloads the page automatically every few seconds when connection times out. No more mashing on F4! And it even lets me navigate things like forums gone horribly slow while nobody else can do it.
• FireFTP. Because having an FTP client in a browser makes sense.
• Restart Extension. It allows me to restart the browser or exit keeping tabs in a few simple clicks. Very handy for countering all those memory leaks.