# Firefox - what are your favorite extensions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404 "2004-07-10T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/21 "2004-07-12T14:16:23Z")
AdBlock is my favorite. I never get annoyed by flashing ads anymore. My second fave is CompactMenu. With that, my “overhead” window space consists of the Firefox title bar, a single, thin row of buttons/url boxes, and the tab row. CompactMenu replaces the “File/Edit/View/Go…” menu with a single mouse icon, which you then click to see all those choices as sub-menus. It requires an extra mouse click any time you want to access something in the menus, but it lets you fit everything you need in a single row. My row, which consists of images with no text, is: CompactMenu, Back, Forward, Reload, Stop, Print, New Tab, Bookmarks, URL Window, Google Window, and the Throbber. My “Bookmarks” icon is just a simple folder picture, which I click to open up my bookmarks in a menu. I got it there by creating a folder underneath “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder” with a null name, and put all my bookmarks under there. Then you can just drag that button to the single toolbar without requiring a separate toolbar row. As for themes, by far my favorite is iCandy Jr. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/22 "2004-07-12T14:36:21Z")
I’d like to download and test a few extensions, but the last time I did that, I had the devil’s own time removing one that I didn’t like. I ultimately uninstalled and reinstalled FireFox, and even THEN had to go in and delete my user profile. Does anyone know a simple method for doing this reliably? ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/23 "2004-07-12T14:53:59Z")
Firefox 0.9 allows you to uninstall extensions. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/24 "2004-07-12T15:09:54Z")
Yeah, but everyone tells me that 0.9 is buggy, and I shouldn’t use it… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/25 "2004-07-12T16:07:30Z")
0.9 is the first version that’s stable enough for me to stop using Mozilla as my default browser and set Firefox as the default. 0.8 had some kind of unacceptable bug/problem for me, but I cannot remember exactly what that was. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404/26 "2004-07-12T19:20:37Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > [Linky.](http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html) > > Right click a page, select ‘Linky’, and you can open all linked images in tabs with a single click. Useful for, uh, well, you see, ‘educational’ sites sometimes have lots of thumbnails and pics. Very nice extension. That is truly a thing of beauty. There is a God after all. _wipes tear from eye_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-what-are-your-favorite-extensions/254404.md?page=1)