[FM Discuss] Favourite firefox Add Ons?

[Moon Jones]

On 21.05.2013 12:59, Mick Fuzz wrote:
 > So far I have info on fireftp, noscript, adblock, foxyproxy, https
 > everywhere, flagfox, better privacy, googlesharing.
 > Thinking of writing docs for download helper, show ip, firefogg,
 > stealthy, firessh.

The point is to have less extensions if possible. Because extensions 
might slow down the browser. Might conflict with other extensions. 
Meaning more extensions more chances to get one. Also, being developed 
by third parties, it's not excluded they can rat on you. Some do it for 
a small profit. Some do it out of curiosity. Most aren't even aware. So 
flagfox is cute, but not so important. Google related stuff are 
dangerous both for bypassing censorship and personal security. Better 
privacy can be dumped once flash is uninstalled from a system. Also 
foxyproxy should be there only if one has a particular need to use it 
and change among more proxies during a single session.

You forgot CookieCuller.

Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus and Adblock Plus Pop-up Add-on. 
The whole list of Ad-block are for people who don't care about their 
anonymity. Also, if you like FlagFox in it's useless cuteness, you might 
need IdentFavIcon too for the sites where the webmaster doesn't care 
about that icon.

And RequestPolicy. But that's also for people who are less concerned 
with anonymity. It's not so easy to work with it. It's functionality is 
already in a much less friendlier form in NoScript. But it makes pages 
load faster. A lot faster.

For offline reading you have MAFF and GrabMyBooks and a couple of PDF 
converters.

You need a flash video downloader in case you did the wise thing and 
erased Adobe products from your hard drive.

And a download manager. DownThemAll! is quite handy if you don't have an 
external app just for that. So is Epubreader if you don't have another 
dedicated app.

For article readability there's Tranquility. Because iReader doesn't 
work with NoScript. Their bad.

Also Fangs can be an useful app when reading or designing a site. I'm 
not sure it works with the latest versions.