The WebWorkerDaily Firefox Add-Ons Collection
July 3rd, 2009 (3:00pm) Simon Mackie 12 CommentsTweet This (16)
To celebrate this week’s launch of the superb Firefox 3.5, we’ve put together a collection of the WebWorkerDaily team’s favorite Firefox extensions. You can subscribe to our collection here; as we discover useful new add-ons, we’ll add to it over time. The great thing about add-on collections is that you can pick and choose which add-ons to install, so if you don’t agree with all of our choices, you can just pick the ones that you like.
Here are the add-ons that made our collection (they’re all compatible with Firefox 3.5):
- FaviconizeTab
- Long URL Please
- Better Gmail 2
- Adblock Plus
- Tiny Menu
- Download Statusbar
- Gmail Manager
- LastPass Password Manager
- Greasemonkey
- ScribeFire Blog Editor
- Read It Later
- Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks)
- Shareaholic for Firefox
These are our favorites, but if we’re missing any, please let us know in the comments.
Tags: firefox, Firefox Extension
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Can’t live without Ubiquity!!!!
One quick note; if you don’t want (or need) the extra options of tiny menu, check out Tiny Menu
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7373
It’s by the same developer of Tiny Menu, and seeing as how I didn’t use any of the options it worked and kept my install light
Whoops add-on is called micro menu
XMarks, ForecastFox and Grab and Drag are 3 of my favorites.
Sorry to be picky, but as of today (4th July), Better Gmail 2 is not yet compatible with FF 3.5.
Oh, man – don’t miss out on tab mix plus or Down them all.
@Rob Grayson – Better Gmail 2 says that it is compatible with 3.5 on the plugin page. It installed fine on my FF3.5?
I miss iMacros on this list, its great way to automate all the daily logins and up/downloads.
The other missing addon is Zotero (citation manager). A must-have for everyone in research.
people that use adblock are literally stealing. If you dont want to help support the the site by view adds on it, then dont use the site/service. Its really that simple. Believe me, I understand that some are extremely annoying, but that doesnt really change things from an ethical standpoint. Its basically saying, i really want to view your content and understand you might have put a lot of money and time into making it, but i really dont want you to make any money off it. Its no different than downloading tv shows of the internet with all the commercials ripped out.
@Mark I agree with you. If I didn’t run a blog myself I might not have thought of it in this way, but at the end of the day we’re all here to make money, so ads are crucial.
Other than that, the plug-ins are great. Also some great plug-ins in the comments.