Best Firefox Extensions

This forum is one that might start fistfights in the Blogger Cafe . . . so handle with care. If you could ONLY recommend TWO of your very favorite extensions, which two would you nominate?

Tough, huh?

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Permalink Reply by Tim Chase on June 30, 2008 at 11:03pm: My own two would be

Video DownloadHelper (captures youtube and teachertube videos as FLV files on your hard drive)

and

Better Gmail 2 (adds some clever functionality and a very cool skin to my favorite webmail system); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steve Dickie on July 1, 2008 at 5:01am: Diigo plugin - Diigo is a great social bookmarking site that also allows you to annotate the web

and

Scribefire - Take notes or compose a blog post in the bottom half of your browser window. Works really well.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carl Gaines, Jr. on July 2, 2008 at 6:02am: Foxmarks and I am open on the second one...always looking... may try Gmail 2; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bill Campbell on July 2, 2008 at 7:16am: Delicious Bookmarks (version 2): Even without the social network/sharing aspects of del.icio.us, which are great, using this plug-in makes it easier for me to organize and search my own bookmarks than the built-in features of any browser I've used. Plus my bookmarks easily follow me to any computer I use.

Google Gears: Allows offline access to Google docs (word processing) and Google spreadsheets even when I don't have an internet connection. Docs can be edited while offline. Spreadsheet is only read-only for now.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Thelander on July 2, 2008 at 7:17am: Easy! Unplug and Zotero!

No... wait .... Trailfire and Unplug!

No... wait .... Interclue and Unplug!

I guess it's tougher than it sounds...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tim Chase on July 2, 2008 at 7:35am: Unplug was a favorite until I discovered that I couldn't download much-coveted videos from theonion.com. So I switched to videodownloadhelper and never looked back.

What's interclue?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erik Maeder on July 2, 2008 at 8:34am: I am making note of each the choices made here to add them to my Firefox and experiment later. BTW: I run my Firefox application entirely from my flash drive with a very cool application called Portable Apps. Running Firefox this way, I have all of my settings, tool bars, extensions, add-ons, etc. with me on any computer that I may use! Give it a try...

As for my two favorite extensions, I couldn't live without GButts, which gives quick access to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, etc., and QuickNote, giving me an easy method of taking notes and copying text from websites.

But I would also recommend exploring the Dictionary Tooltip, which lets you double click on any word on any webpage to get a dictionary pop-up (and audio), and the Text Size Toolbar, which lets me enlarge the text on a website when I am using a projector.

I'm also currently experimenting with FireShot, which gives me the ability for screen (and partial screen) captures...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rob Galloway on July 2, 2008 at 10:33am: Foxmarks and PicLens--PicLens is unbelievably cool!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jarod on July 3, 2008 at 3:52pm: I second this! Foxmarks is great! No more, "Oh I must have saved that bookmark on my other comptuer." PicLens is the coolest. Showing my non-tech friends piclens is how I usually convince them to start using firefox.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Judy Robison on July 2, 2008 at 5:48pm: My two would he Diego and IE tab. Can't I have two more?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tim Chase on July 2, 2008 at 7:22pm: Why not--Michael did!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Judy Robison on July 3, 2008 at 5:55am: OK - tab mix plus (or any extension that lets me open a duplicate tab) and video download helper.; ▶ Reply to This