Essential Firefox plugins
Well, not so essential maybe, but I cannot resist modding the hell out of this browser.
Screen Real estate
- Tinymenu: the menubar in just one menu item
- minifoxflat: a small theme
Browsing aids
- pdf download: provides with a menu to download, display or convert to html when you click on a .pdf link
- tab mix plus: more or less the definitive tool to manage your tabs
- add bookmark here: priceless with complicated bookmark folders
- video download helper: to download anything on the page
- fireftp: an ftp client builtin
- either flashgot or downthemall, two download manager (the first uses something already installed, the second is builtin)
- leet key: translates from/to 1337, rot13 and so on
- web developer: a wealth of tools, not just for developers
- nuke anything enhanched: to get rid of annoying stuff on webpages
- brief rss reader
- right click link: adds a menu option to open text links
Security
- flagfox: geolocation for the site you’re visting
- firesomething: the funniest way to obfuscate your browser identity
- bugmenot: bypass pointless registrations
- header monitor: shows interesting stuff in the styatusbar
- passive cache: opens google cache’s version of an url
- user agent switcher: masquerade as whatever browser you want (look here for an enormous list)
Search engines
- wikipedia
- merriam-webster dictionary
- add to searchbar plugin: the most interesting stuff isn’t on mycroft anyway
If anyone passing by knows some must-have plugins I’ve not mentioned please do leave a comment
