Smoke and Mirrors

Which reminds me… I blog about Firefox every now and then, and I know some of you are still using that other browser… but some of you are relative Firefox newbies so I thought I would give back to the little people.

In case you’re interested, here are the current extensions I have installed:

Google Toolbar for Firefox: Do I need to say why?
PDF Download: I hate PDFs which open up in browser windows automatically rather than allowing me a chance to download them.
del.icio.us: My bookmarks
GMail Notifier: Not as useful now that I have Google Talk which has its own GMail notifier. I just uninstalled this one, but I’ve had it so long I thought I would mention it.
SmoothWheel: I can’t recall why I installed this one.
Popup ALT Attribute: HTML purists may not appreciate this, but I find it essential because it duplicates IE’s default functionality.
Bloglines Toolkit: If you use Bloglines, get this.
JustBlogIt: My primary mechanism for remembering links to blog later. I save links I want to blog about later as draft posts in WordPress.
BugMeNot: It’s just convenient. Doesn’t always work obviously.
Print Preview: Essential.
SearchStatus: Not essential for me, but neat. If I had to pick one to uninstall, it would be this one.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver: Nice timesaver if you are in Product Management and have to take screen captures of web pages for documentation or screen mockups often.
IETab: I think this is a little buggy since I think it crashes Firefox from time to time, but I still find it’s worth it.
Tab Mix Plus: If you use Tabbrowser Preferences, you should switch to this one. It’s better, and I’d used Preferences for over a year.

Which do you have installed?

Just like WordPress, I’m always on the lookout for new extensions that save me time.

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