Firefox - what are your favorite extensions?

In My Humble Opinion
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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.

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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?

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Firefox 0.9 allows you to uninstall extensions.

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Yeah, but everyone tells me that 0.9 is buggy, and I shouldn’t use it…

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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.

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That is truly a thing of beauty. There is a God after all. wipes tear from eye