Adblock! It much better than userContent.css based blocking

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

I use these:
- TBE
- EditCSS
- IE View
- Download statusbar
- Adblock
- Flash Click To View
- Compact menu
- Web Developer

Download statusbar is more convenient than the Download Manager (to me), and far more discreet because your downloads appear in a bar near the bottom of the window. The only problem is sometimes I forget that I'm downloading something and close Firefox, thereby losing my partial downloads.

Flash Click To View (or Flashblock) is also great for me because I'm not much of a Flash person and tend to be more annoyed. Of course, this does mean that Flash movies and games require you to click to display them, but I believe it is worth it.

Compact Menu - saves me vertical screen real estate, because I can then put my address bar (and search bar) on the highest menu.

Oh, and thanks for pointing out Toolbar Enhancements. It looks to be useful and I'll be trying it out (right after I restart Firefox).

I'm using Flash Click to View since the beginning, and recently I discovered EZNav, which allows you to middle click te reload button to go up in the URL hierarchy. Further I use the recently released Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com/ ) notifier extension and X (paranoia).

it says "not listed at texturizer or mozdev"!

let's not list our favorites extensions once again!

I dont know if it is at extensionroom yet or not but it wasnt at last check
Tab X - puts a close button on every tab
quite brilliant

I use several extensions that have already been mentioned, and also:

• Link Toolbar
• Live HTTP Headers (useful for web development)
• Nuke Anything

I recently stopped using TBE because of javascript incompatibilities with several websites (all of them including complicated javascripts, e.g. coolmenus). The problems seem to get worse with each version of TBE and the problems were definately caused by TBE (disabling it fixes all my problems). Luckily there are a number of extensions that duplicate the important (to me) features of tbe. I installed the following ones: tab x, blanklast and eznav.

Blanklast and tab x actually fix what IMHO should be the default behavior. I really hate it when the browser reflows because I removed a tab and I never understood why it is somehow better to move the mouse all the way to the other side of the screen to close a tab. Eznav adds a few nice touches like middleclick behavior for some of the toolbar buttons.

Some of my other favorites: RSS panel, ie view, googlebar and popup alt.

Asa, I have a project for you. An extension that can create a button for an entry in each item in the menu bar entries. For example, I need a button for View/ Character coding, another user would like to have a button for Tools/ Options. Buttons for entries in the Tools menu created by extensions could be useful as well. Such an extension should work in Thunderbird.

Try Fusion, which incorporates the progress bar into the URL bar (in the style of Safari).

It's not listed anywhere but this forum thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=483965#483965

Prefbar is my main *required* extension. Lets me quickly toggle things like popups, cookies, cookie warnings, javascript, and do clear cache, etc.

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

SessionSaver is a lifesaver - auto-restores full sessions after crashes with browsing history and page scroll positions intact
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/sessionsaver

I also find myself constantly using Dictionary Search set to Onelook (and the menu label shortened to "Define")
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/dictionarysearch
http://www.onelook.com/?w=$

miniT (drag) comes in handy every once in a while when i want to re-order tabs
http://mozilla.dorando.at/miniT-drag.xpi