25 essential Firefox add-ons for power users

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A bare copy of Firefox is a wonderful thing, but when you start stuffing it with add-ons it gets even better.
So what are the best add-ons for power users? Here's our top 25:
1. All-in-one Sidebar
All-in-oneSidebar makes Firefox's Sidebar more useful by displaying pretty muchanything you might want: source code, downloads, add-ons, page info,entire web pages…
2. Stealther
Jealous of Safari's Porn Mode – ahem, Private Browsing? Now you can have it too, with Stealther.
3. Web Developer Toolbar
The name's a clue: the Web Developer Toolbar adds a toolbar containing useful tools for web developers.
4. Instapaper
InstallInstapaper's bookmarklet and you can store interesting things to readlater. You can view pages without ads or other distractions, and itworks on phones as well as PCs.
5. FireFTP
FireFTPis an excellent bit of charityware – it's free, but donations areencouraged. It puts a fully featured FTP program right inside yourbrowser.
6. Greasemonkey
The Swiss Army Knife of the Internet, Greasemonkey enables you to bend sites to your will through the power of JavaScript.
7. Tab Mix Plus
Get complete control over Firefox's tab handling, from the way tabs look to the way they work, with Tab Mix Plus.
8. User Agent Switcher
Browsersniffers stopping you from seeing sites? Pretend you're using a rubbishbrowser by changing the user agent string with User Agent Switcher.
9. IE View
Sometimes you need to view or test a page in IE. IE View is a Windows-only extension that makes it a one-click job.
10. IE Tab
Does much the same as IE View, but opens IE within a Firefox tab. Once again IE Tab is Windows-only.
11. Sage
Firefox's RSS support is pretty basic. Sage gives you a fully-featured RSS and Atom feed reader that's a joy to use.
12. HideBad
Pretendyou're busy working with this excellent boss key. Not only does HideBadreplace the current tabs with safe ones, but it zaps your browsinghistory, too.
13. Download Statusbar
Keep track of and control your file downloads without leaving the main browser window with Download Statusbar.
14. DownThemAll
Downloadevery link or linked image from a web page in one fell swoop, filteringout unwanted file types automatically with DownThemAll.
15. FoxyTunes
FoxyTunes lets you control your music player, or take advantage of Yahoo!'s online MP3 player, while you wander around the Web.
16. Gmail Space
So unofficial that Google will probably kill you if it catches you using it, Gmail Space turns Gmail into an online hard disk.
17. StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is the easy way to discover sites that other people liked.
18. NoScript
Eliminateannoyances and security risks by blocking scripts and other executablecontent from sites you don't trust with NoScript.
19. BugMeNot
Don't want to register to read an article? BugMeNot gives you other people's logins.
20. Mouse Gestures
A massive time saver, Mouse Gestures enables you to navigate with a quick flick of the mouse.
21. Fast Video Download
Download embedded video clips with Fast Video Download so you can watch them at your leisure.
22. ScribeFire
ScribeFire is a superb in-browser blog editor that works with everything from LiveJournal to WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
23. BetterSearch
BetterSearchadds previews to search results so you don't end up on irrelevant,malicious or obscene websites. Unless that's what you're looking for...
24. FlashBlock
Flashis often used for in-page annoyances, so FlashBlock gets rid of all ofit unless you specifically click on a bit of Flash content.
25. Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus eliminates invasive ads and makes some sites look very weird as a result.
Now read 8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast and 7 Firefox add-ons that will save you a fortune

xblues

加了红色的是我也一直在用的并且喜欢用的。

ritz

我的：
Generated: Fri Oct 17 2008 02:53:45 GMT+0800 (CST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081013 Minefield/3.1b2pre
Build ID: 20081013070526

Enabled Extensions: [30]
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 - Ads were yesterday!
- Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5 - Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads.
- Better GReader 0.4 - Enhances Google Reader with a compilation of user scripts and styles.
- ColorZilla 2.0 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- Configuration Mania 1.09.2008081401 - More Advanced (hidden) configures
- CSSViewer 1.0.3 - A simple CSS property viewer
- CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.9.3 - Adds icons to all menus.
- DownThemAll! *nightly* 1.1a1.20080913.1089 - The mass downloader for Firefox.
- Firebug 1.2.0 - Web Development Evolved.
- Firecookie 0.6 - Cookie manager for Firebug. Firebug has to be installed in order to use this extension.
- FirePHP 0.1.1 - Firebug Extension for AJAX Development
- FoxyProxy 2.8.9 - FoxyProxy - Premier proxy management for Firefox
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.22 - Allows notetaking while browsing
- Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0 - A User Script Manager for Firefox
- MLdonkey Protocol Handler 2.2 - Sends ed2k, Magnet, sig2dat and BitTorrent links to MLdonkey/eMule/aMule
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 - MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US)
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 - Useful tools for the nightly tester.
- NoScript 1.8.2.8 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach  prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)
- Remember The Milk for Gmail 1.0.3 - Task management goodness.
- ScrapBook 1.3.3.7 - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.
- Screen grab! 0.95 - Saves a web-page as an image.
- Signature 0.4.0.4.200610221528 - Ctrl+space or right click to insert taglines
- SQLite Manager 0.3.13 - Manage any SQLite database on your computer
- Stylish 0.5.7 - Customize the look of websites and of the user interface.
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.2 - Tab browsing with an added boost.
- Tagmarks 1.0.1 - Add a set of icons to the quick bookmarks
- Ubiquity 0.1.1 - An extension that allows for the use of dynamic commands in Firefox.
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.4 - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes.
- Web Developer 1.1.6 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
- YSlow 0.9.5b2 - Make your pages faster with Yahoo!'s performance lint tool.

Disabled Extensions: [2]
- HttpFox 0.8.2 - An HTTP analyzer addon for Firefox
- Live HTTP headers 0.14 - View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.

Total Extensions: 32

Installed Themes: [3]
- Default
- Linstripe Modern 3.2
- Ubuntu Tango Theme 2.0.4

Installed Plugins: (9)
- Default Plugin
- DivX Browser Plug-In
- Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07-b06
- mplayerplug-in 3.55
- OpenOffice.org Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5
- RealPlayer 9
- Shockwave Flash
- Windows Media Player Plug-in

xblues

我从你的列表中发现的比较有用的插件，我也打算试试
- ColorZilla 2.0 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- CSSViewer 1.0.3 - A simple CSS property viewer
- Firecookie 0.6 - Cookie manager for Firebug. Firebug has to be installed in order to use this extension.

我也正在用的插件，和你一样
- FirePHP 0.1.1 - Firebug Extension for AJAX Development
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 - Ads were yesterday!
- Firebug 1.2.0 - Web Development Evolved.
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.22 - Allows notetaking while browsing
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.2 - Tab browsing with an added boost.
- Web Developer 1.1.6 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.


下面这些好像没什么特别有用的呀？有很多我试验过了，不是特别必须的。
- Better GReader 0.4 - Enhances Google Reader with a compilation of user scripts and styles.
- Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5 - Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads.
- CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.9.3 - Adds icons to all menus.
- DownThemAll! *nightly* 1.1a1.20080913.1089 - The mass downloader for Firefox.
- FoxyProxy 2.8.9 - FoxyProxy - Premier proxy management for Firefox
- Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0 - A User Script Manager for Firefox
- MLdonkey Protocol Handler 2.2 - Sends ed2k, Magnet, sig2dat and BitTorrent links to MLdonkey/eMule/aMule
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 - MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US)
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 - Useful tools for the nightly tester.
- NoScript 1.8.2.8
- Remember The Milk for Gmail 1.0.3 - Task management goodness.
- ScrapBook 1.3.3.7 - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.
- Screen grab! 0.95 - Saves a web-page as an image.
- Signature 0.4.0.4.200610221528 - Ctrl+space or right click to insert taglines
- SQLite Manager 0.3.13 - Manage any SQLite database on your computer
- Stylish 0.5.7 - Customize the look of websites and of the user interface.
- Tagmarks 1.0.1 - Add a set of icons to the quick bookmarks
- Ubiquity 0.1.1 - An extension that allows for the use of dynamic commands in Firefox.
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.4 - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes.
- Configuration Mania 1.09.2008081401 - More Advanced (hidden) configures
- YSlow 0.9.5b2 - Make your pages faster with Yahoo!'s performance lint tool.

xblues

ColorZillar 很有用！
FireCookie很有用，与Firebug集成，用起来很放便。

remember the milk 看起来好复杂呀，我需要试验一下。

CSS Viewer 就一般了，Firebug也集成了他的功能，而且用起来更顺手。

FF的bookmark功能很不错，可惜不是online的，所以每次重新安装系统或者换机器，书签就没用了。
我使用online书签，delicious功能不错。
同样的道理ScrapBook 1.3.3.7 - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.也不是online的，用起来也太不方便了，如果将来delicious能结合这个功能就好了。
同样道理- Tagmarks 1.0.1 - Add a set of icons to the quick bookmarks如果不用FF的书签，那这个插件也没用了

你如果不在用delicious，却很喜欢ScrapBook，倒是可以试一试Clipmarks

- Screen grab! 0.95 - Saves a web-page as an image. 这个功能FF已经内置了

8戒

灰常好，我加了几个有用滴

ritz

Generated: Fri Oct 24 2008 01:46:44 GMT+0800 (CST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081022 Minefield/3.1b2pre
Build ID: 20081022020719

Enabled Extensions: [26]
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 - Ads were yesterday!  封锁广告的，必备！
- Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5 - Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads.  可以用类似firebug inspect网页元素的办法指定封锁元素，帮你生成adblock rules，很好用
- Better GReader 0.4 - Enhances Google Reader with a compilation of user scripts and styles.  增强google reader的一些脚本集合，我比较喜欢的功能有直接预览，feed直接订阅，已订阅过的blog会有打勾提示
- ColorZilla 2.0 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- CoLT 2.4.1 - Adds a Copy Link Text item to the browser's context menu. 方便我写blog的时候直接复制标题和url
- DownThemAll! *nightly* 1.1b1pre.20081023.1120 - The mass downloader for Firefox. 超级多线程下载工具，不需要装flashget之类的东东了， 必备
- Firebug 1.2.0 - Web Development Evolved.  开发调试工具，必备
- Firecookie 0.6 - Cookie manager for Firebug. Firebug has to be installed in order to use this extension.  
- FirePHP 0.1.1 - Firebug Extension for AJAX Development
- FoxyProxy 2.8.9 - FoxyProxy - Premier proxy management for Firefox  根据url规则选择代理工具，穿墙必备
- Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0 - A User Script Manager for Firefox 油猴子，有很多很实用的脚本，比如强制gmail使用https, twitter retweet功能等
- HttpFox 0.8.2 - An HTTP analyzer addon for Firefox http协议分析工具，开发调试很有用
- MLdonkey Protocol Handler 2.2 - Sends ed2k, Magnet, sig2dat and BitTorrent links to MLdonkey/eMule/aMule  这个是送电驴链接给mldonkey的，win下面就不用这么麻烦了
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 - MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US) 这个是用来生成你看到的这张列表的 XD 还有其他的一些杂七杂八的功能
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 - Useful tools for the nightly tester. 因为我用firefox 3.1b2pre 测试版，要用这个工具来覆盖扩展版本检查
- NoScript 1.8.3.3 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other  plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach  prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)  默认禁止JS/Flash/Java Applet的工具，看国内网站安全多了 ;)
- ScrapBook 1.3.3.7 - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection. 收藏本，可以完整保存网页，保存的网页还可以自己编辑和做标记
- Screen grab! 0.95 - Saves a web-page as an image. 截屏工具，必备
- Selenium IDE 1.0b2 - Record, edit and play Selenium tests
- Signature 0.4.0.4.200610221528 - Ctrl+space or right click to insert taglines
- SQLite Manager 0.3.14 - Manage any SQLite database on your computer
- Stylish 0.5.7 - Customize the look of websites and of the user interface.
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.3 - Tab browsing with an added boost.
- Tagmarks 1.0.1 - Add a set of icons to the quick bookmarks
- Ubiquity 0.1.2 - An extension that allows for the use of dynamic commands in Firefox.
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.4 - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes.

Disabled Extensions: [3]
- Remember The Milk for Gmail 1.0.3 - Task management goodness.  如果你喜欢 RTM 这个管理工具，这个就有用， 我现在因为比较迷FriendFeed Realtime Embed in Sidebar, 宽度不够了，暂时不用
- Web Developer 1.1.6 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.  这个不用介绍了吧，不过由于firebug的关系，考虑逐步淘汰了
- YSlow 0.9.5b2 - Make your pages faster with Yahoo!'s performance lint tool.
评估网站性能的，要用的时候才打开

Total Extensions: 29