Firefox Extensions and Customizations

Adblock

I don't really mean to block as with this tool. I realize that advertisers pay the bills for a lot of web designers. I do however use it to block other annoyances.
case in point...
Futureshop.ca has this incredibly annoying bald black guy on the left hand side. If you block the following file with adblock, he will go away and never be seen again.
http://www.futureshop.ca/javascript/avatar/callout_en.swf

Stumble Upon

This particular extension is pretty freaking addictive. You tell it what kinds of websites you're interested in and it's feeds them to you. Just click the button. It's a fantastic time waster.

NoScript

NoScript does what it says it does. It blocks javascript unless I decide that I want to unblock a particular script. I recommend this one when using stumble upon because you're constantly being led into new websites and you never know what scripts some sites are trying to push on your system. Of course this does block a lot of ads but there's nothing I can do about that.

Stylish

This one turns pages like boring old white igoogle to sleek sexy black igoogle with a sleep silver logo. You can import any styles you like. I prefer black. I guess I'm just emo that way.

iGoogle

Which brings us to iGoogle. I'm one of those people who if it's not right there in front of me I'll forget about it until I abandon it completely. iGoogle keeps things right in front of me. There are hundreds of addons. I use to view google calendar, gmail, my to-do list, currency converter, imperial to metric converter and an ip lookup. I really depend on this one.

Stop Autoplay

This extension blocks websites like youtube from automatically playing audio and video streams to you until you tell it to.

Fasterfox

Claims to speed up Firefox page load times. Nothing to lose by installing this one.

del.icio.us

There's several extensions to use with the del.icio.us bookmarking tool. I sometimes install different ones but they all pretty much do the same thing. I use several computers so this one's essential to keeping all my bookmarks in one place and in some kind of order.

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