Lee's three must-have Firefox addons

My favorite is Adblock Plus

why did you pick weave over xmarks?

I agree with HuBu. XMarks is one add-on that takes care of everything. Maybe if you NEED that additional functionality, I can see why you'd choose Weave. Greasemonkey I completely agree with.

But for me, it'd be XMarks, Greasemonkey and Tab Mix Plus. If I had more choices, I'd add on FEBE and mention Better Gmail. But before T.M.P., I refused to use Firefox because of the horrible tab handling. I was a die-hard Maxthon user because all the features you'd normally want to have came out-of-the-box in Maxthon and you'd have to go looking for an add-on in Firefox.

What about Adblock Plus? It's a must have too
Oh wait! this is an add financed blog :)

Heh... and it seems all of these are basically built into Opera already!! (through Opera Link & UserScripts).

Shame no-one really knows about them though :/ Opera need to do something about that...

Adblock Plus is like a taboo among websites that talk about Firefox.

No security? Adblock Plus (as previously mentioned), BetterPrivacy, and BetterPrivacy are my first 3. Keeps me safe and snappy.

Hard to put an order on them, but my top three have to be Tab Mix Plus, Adblock Plus, and NoScript. Oh, and Taboo! Taboo is *definitely* in the top collection (I have so many tabs saved that way to work on later, I despair of ever getting to all of them). Xmarks follows close behind (I'm usually at my laptop, so I don't need to shuffle back and forth so much between browsers), along with Greasemonkey, ForecastFox, SunCult (I'm a Seventh-day Adventist, so knowing when sundown is on the weekends is a very useful thing, so I can anticipate the Sabbath coming), and a little-known extension called UnMHT (I'm not sure if it's still experimental or what)--I use it to save webpages as mht, to combine it all into one neat tidy package for saving in folders to read later. Oh yes, and DownThemAll!--can't forget that extension. Very useful for grabbing a ton of linked files at once. I also LOVE DownloadHelper--I'm always grabbing Youtube vids that way.

Delicious Bookmark extension. Keeps everything tagged and in sync where i go.

I'm in a jam so to speak. I cant seem to get weave to snyc down data that i had set up w/ a different firefox install. instead it made a 2nd computer to sync with it. I thought xmarks would back me up on that but it overrided my passwords on me. and i lost the drive that had the old install on it as it were.

1.) Adblock plus: its a must have to any system.

Don't normally install much else besides that (outside of the Move Media player for ESPN360 and the WMP plugin for compatibility with basically everything).

My Firefox experience is enhanced greatly thanks to the following:

- Adblock Plus. Hard to forgive Noscript after the recent mess.
- Flashblock
- Foxclocks. I work with people in Guam, Hawaii, and both coasts in the mainland.
- Xmarks
- UrlBarExt
- Pixlr. Right-click on a photo and send it to a great online editor.
- IE Tab. For the clueless sites that insist on having IE-only usability.
- Auto Pager
- FEBE/CLOE/OPIE
- Personal Menu + Stop-or-reload button - To save screen space.
- US and BR Dictionaries. How wonderful that Firefox has built-in spell checking.
- DownThemAll

I installed Xmarks less than two weeks ago, and it's staying. I'm slowly working my way through my bookmarks and putting them online with Delicious (and yes, I could just import them, but this way I know if they've moved, invalid, or I just don't care anymore, and I can tag them appropriately), so I can do that task from any Firefox browser (where I currently have it installed) that I use, which means 3.0.10 and the latest 3.5beta that's updated on my systems.

I'm very much less hesitant about trying Greasemonkey. Every time that I've tried that extension, my performance went to crap, and even uninstalling never fixed the issue. I had to reinstall the OS from a formatted disk each time. Now that might be a problem somewhere else just creeping in, but the coincidence is such that until I find a userscript that I've just gotta have, it stays off the computer.

You can't have an article about "must-have" firefox extensions without putting adblock-plus at the top of the list. I don't care if it's taboo to talk about on an ad-supported site, it's the single best thing about using firefox and it's the reason I won't even try chrome or opera (yes, I know there are adblocking options for those browsers but they don't work as well as adblock).

Lastpass? If you want to store your passwords online be my guest. I'll stick with KeePass.