That's the background, not really relevant, and largely just a blob of text. Now the promised list without any more digressions. Turns out I have a lot of disabled extensions which I'll list at the end.
Will have to take some time and put in links to each of these. Not now though.
Enabled extensions:
- British English Dictionary
- No more color and humor, I want colour and humour
- Download Statusbar
- I never anyway have the download window popup when there is an active download. This addon makes that totally irrelevant now. Simple and concise in the statusbar.
- DownloadHelper
- One of the dozens of such addons for pulling stuff down from youtube and other sites for saving on your computer. Is effective, nothing else to be said.
- dragdropupload
- If you have to upload/attach files somewhere, simply drag and drop from your file manager. No more painful browsing.(don't know if this works on Linux though, I guess it should)
- FireFTP
- This one really shows Firefox off as a platform for applications rather than just being a web browser. A neat ftp client this is.
- FireGPG
- Sign and encrypt any text box, with special integration for gmail allowing for signed and encrypted attachments and simple buttons for the actual mail. Hail privacy!
- Flashblock
- Just what it says, block flash content and replaces by a button to turn on. Also supports url based whitelists. An essential addon.
- Foxmarks
- Excellent bookmark synchronizing addon. Essential if you have firefox running on multiple machines. And even otherwise, bookmarks are neatly backed up and accessible on their site once you login.
- Greasemonkey
- Greasemonkey scripts are awesome. And espcially within Amazon, we have loads to do neat little things the actual sites don't do.
- IE Tab
- An essential addon for you to view all those sites that dont work with Firefox right from within firefox. Microsoft sharepoint portals and exchange web mail are specially made for IE.
- Indic Input
- Awesome addon that lets you type in any of the Indian languages absolutely anywhere in firefox.
- It's All Text!
- It is so much more convenient to do text-editing from within vim. Used to use mozex earlier, but switched to this simpler addon.
- PicLens
- Another awesome cool addon. Turns firefox into an uber-cool 3d wall of images or videos when viewing picasa/flickr/youtube/google image search etc. Try it out, it will rock you.
- Sage-Too
- Most of my feedreading happens on google reader. But I've been a fan of Sage since IIT times when slashdot and digg were more important to me than email(sage-too is a fork of the original sage).
- TabMixPlus
- Brought the session manager to firefox ages ago and the tab and window features (and customizability) are something you can't live without after a while with this extension.
- TinyMenu
- The top menu bar in firefox is largely a waste except for the tools menu. This addon folds everything into a single list and lets you keep your chosen ones behind. And I've dropped my actual bookmarks bar and moved bookmarks into the menu bar.
Disabled extensions
- All-in-one-Sidebar
- This one is meant to be like opera's sidebar and is a huge hit. Maybe it works for others, but I didn't find much use for it.
- Firebug
- For the rainy day when I might need to do some web development. Not today though.
- Flagfox
- Knowing the whois information of the server and seeing the flag of the hosting country sounded like a cool idea.
- NoScript
- Meant to be the one-stop-shop for keeping your browser secure, and is a major hit addon. But I don't really visit too many strange sites that I don't trust. Or maybe I am not paranoid enough yet. Right now, it just seems to be a pain with having to click a button to whitelist each new site I go to.
- SplitBrowser
- Neat addon that does exactly what it says. Installed it at someone's suggestion. But didn't use it for a long time, so disabled it.
- TamperData
- Again for the rainy day when I might want to modify headers and data in my http or xmlhttp requests. Not today.
