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Greasemonkey
S3Fox
ColorZilla
DownloadHelper
Vacuum Places
... and a shameless plug for Compass, a Firefox/Chrome/Safari add-on I wrote that adds a "table of contents" to various e-commerce sites to help you find stuff faster. Search for "compass" on the various extension galleries if you're interested.
On chrome i use: * Notscript (blocks javascript, not as good as noscript for firefox but imho still good) * Adblock * Navigate on paste (load webpage with middle click on linux) * Type ahead find (just start typing to search) * android2cloud (send urls from your mobile phone to your browser) For Firefox: * TabMixPlus (Multiple rows for tabs) * NoScript (JavaScript blocker) * AdBlock Plus * FoxyProxy (easy managable p…
Just wanted to say thanks; this is the first time I've ever seen one of my extensions listed in a "What extensions do you use?" discussion.
Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, DownThemAll!, ColorZilla
Frankly, all I ever use Firefox for anymore is testing/development and big or multifile downloads (DownThemAll! is kind enough to autosuspend and resume with the often wonky wifi I'm usually connected to).
Chrome:
Web Developer Toolbar, Readability, Flash Blocker
The version of the Web Developer Toolbar for Chrome is extremely limited, but it fills a few holes in the built-in developer tools. I'd love to have a download manager comparable to DownThemAll! for Firefox, but the Chrome API prevents most of the features I like from being implemented. Oh, well.
I don't use Chrome (privacy issues), but for Firefox, * Flashblock * Greasemonkey * Firebug * It'sAllText (which allows the use of an external editor) * A few mostly inconsequential ones, like IdentFavicon, etc. I find that flashblock takes care of most of my ad-blocking needs, and the rest I can do with a local DNS server. The re-emergence of badly behaved Javascript (Remember when all we had to worry about was scro…
> I don't use Chrome (privacy issues) Which one? You do realize it's open source so if you found anything we're not aware of by looking at the code please do tell. Also do you own a mobile phone? Because if you care about privacy, a mobile phone is much worse than chrome.
To sort of explain, the whole concept of "privacy" as Google sees it is a little creepy to me. I realize that I may be overly cautious or paranoid, but I don't see any comforting counter-examples. I got rid of my Android phone on discovering that I couldn't have contacts or calendar entries that didn't get sent to Google in one form or another, and the Google Maps application wanted me to agree to allow location data* to be sent upstream even when I wasn't using it. Eric thinks we should just change our names. None of this sits well with me at all.
Even if they have no intentions of misusing data (which is stretching it), what they retain is still subject to subpoenas, leaks, hacks, or willful violations like Google Buzz (arguably unintentional) or the case of their SRE David Barksdale. Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead, etc., and machines and the people who operate them have not had a good track record on safeguarding other people's data.
* The application did specify that the data collected would be "anonymous", but didn't say how that was ensured. Between Google's skirmishes with the EU over how they "anonymize" their search logs (spoiler: they don't, last I checked; they keep the cookie-tracking data and scrub the last octet of the IP) and their recent privacy issues with two different SREs don't inspire any confidence.
Chrome: JSONView & XML Tree are awesome. I also use Rapportive w/ Gmail. Firefox: Firebug, YSlow & Web Developer toolbar for development. I also use ForecastFox for weather and occasionally S3Fox to check something on S3.
ghostery
Chrome: Vimium, Web Developer Tools
Firefox. It turned out I couldn't live without Ubiquity. Still under development, although officially it's on hiatus. The Add-On Compatibility Reporter, so I can run edge versions of extensions. Firemacs (for sensible Emacs bindings) TabKit (tabs on left side and tree style, with grouping and so on) and Ctrl-Tab (LRU tab switching, plus thumbnailed tab display and switch to tab by name-typing). All other tab organiza…