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Ask HN: Which Firefox add-ons do you use?

13 points by FreeRadical ↗ HN
Just looking for some interesting firefox add-ons and was wondering what other people use. At the moment I only have add block.

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steerpike
Firebug

Web developer toolbar

Selenium

Colourzilla

Measureit

Delicious bookmarks

Diigo bookmarks

Accessibility Extension

HTML validator

Pencil

Fangs

Adblocker

Inline Code Finder

Chatzilla

Screengrab

DanielStraight
I have several add-ons installed but the only one I actually care about is TagSifter. It isn't available for 3.5 yet, but it's the only way of managing bookmarks I've found that makes any sense to me. It combines the ideas of folders and tags in a very nice way.
cfinke
AutoAuth, DOM Inspector, Feed Sidebar, Firebug, FireFound, Links Like This, OPML Support, ScribeFire, Tab History, TubeStop, TwitterBar, URL Fixer, and YouTube Comment Snob.

Of course, I'm biased towards most of these, because I'm the author of all but DOM Inspector, Firebug, and Tab History.

hellotoby
Abduction - Screenshot Utility https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

Adblock Plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

ColorZilla - Color picker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

Coral IE Tab - View IEs rendering engine in FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10909

Delicious Bookmarks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10909

Firebug https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Firefox Throttle - Bandwidth Throttling https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5917

Firequery - Jquery addon for Firebug https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12632

HTML Validator - Validate without having to go to the w3c website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

Live HTTP Headers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

Long URL Please - Replaces Short URLs with the original https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9549

MeasureIt - Screen rulers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539

Web Developer Toolbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

YSlow - Yahoo page performance analyser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369

ScottWhigham
Pearl Crescent Page Saver

HTML Validator

Adblock

Web Developer Toolbar

Firebug

Flashblock

Noscript

Greasemonkey

Firecookie

PDF Download

nfnaaron
The huge set of fabulous add-ons is the main reason why I don't even bother looking at Chrome. The addons make the browser, for me.

AIOS All In One Sidebar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027 Vast improvement over default sidebar.

Brief Rss Reader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4578 Uses Firefox Live Bookmarks feature.

Delicious https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615 Official addon from Delicious.

Download Helper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 Easily download youtube videos, other media.

FoxClocks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117 What time is it, everywhere.

It's All Text https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 Edit any text field with your favorite text editor.

Tab Kit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447 Arrange and manipulate your tabs however you like, including vertically (nice for wide screen).

Text2Link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6003 Right-click and copy the text of a link (rather than the URL).

Toolbar Buttons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2377 Adds a shipload of extra buttons you can place on your toolbars.

Uppity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/869 Easily navigate up the hierarchy of the currently loaded URL.

URL Link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/403 Select non-linked plain-text URL and open it as if it were linked.

User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 Control which user agent (browser) your browser reports itself as.

WebMynd https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6416 When Murdoch and Microsoft succeed in Balkanizing the web, you'll use something like this to aggregate search results from different places. Works great for searching HN.