old add-on list
This list has been superceded by https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/bshanks
- Adblock Plus
- All-in-one sidebar
- view not just history but also downloads, extensions, view source, etc, in the sidebar
- annozilla
- Book burro
- When you view a book, BookBurro? shows you a list of nearest libraries and prices from some online booksellers
- Cache View
- Adds a submenu in the right click menu to view the archived version of the current URL in the Internet Archive, Google Cache, Coral Cache, etc
- Download Statusbar
- Instead of the download manager window, displays downloads on a compact statusbar on the bottom
- EditCSS
- Edit the current page's CSS and see the results in realtime
- FireBug
- Firefox Showcase
- Press F12 to see thumbs of all tabs
- FoxLingo
- Greasemonkey
- Middleware for all sorts of hacks
- Mouse Gestures
- Lets you execute commands by "gesturing" with the mouse
- QuickCheck
- Select a bunch of checkboxes and check or uncheck them all at once
- Resizeable Textarea
- Makes textareas on forms resizable
- Sage
- Save Image in Folder
- Adds submenu in right-click menu to save images to a list of favorite folders
- Searchbar Autosizer
- Searchbar is small by default but grows as you type more into it
- Semantic Radar
- Looks for FOAF and DOAP info in a webpage, has option to display it if found (puts icon in lower right of statusbar)
- StumbleUpon
- Collaborative filtering on webpages
- Tamper Data
- Like packet sniffer for HTTP -- also I guess you can intercept and modify requests
- ViewSourceWith
- Add an option to right-click menu to edit text in forms in emacs!
- Zotero
- Bookmark and citation manager
- link Widgets
- Add buttons to make HTML LINK elements work.
- keyconfig for FF3 (real keyconfig homepage)
- Customize keybindings ('keybindings' = 'keymappings' = 'keyboard shortcuts')
- OldBar
- Disables the new "rich" style autocomplete select list in firefox 3 -- i.e. makes the autocomplete select list look like it did in firefox 2
- Yubnub: a commandline for the web
interesting addons that i didnt install
but that i'm keeping a list of for future reference:
add-ons that i used to have but uninstalled or disabled
- ClearURLButton
- A button which clears the addressbar (you can do this with the control-J or control-K keyboard shortcuts)
- NoScript
- Blocks JavaScript? except at whitelisted sites (too annoying; maybe if there was a shared whitelist that i could subscribe to?)