20 must-have Firefox extensions

20 must-have Firefox extensions

Tools for taming the Web
01. StumbleUpon
02. Gmail Manager & Yahoo Mail Notifier
03. Greasemonkey

Visual improvements
04. Firefox Showcase
05. Cooliris Previews
06. Colorful Tabs & ChromaTabs

Matters of convenience
07. Google Browser Sync & Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
08. Session Manager
09. All-in-One Gestures
10. IE Tab
11. Download Statusbar
12. Download Sort
13. Nuke Anything Enhanced

Information gatherers
14. Forecastfox
15. Answers

Web Developer Essentials
16. FireFTP
17. Firebug
18. Web Developer
19. MeasureIt
20. ColorZilla

In particular, for the powerful Greasemonkey, check out userscripts.org for a script repository. If you want to write your own scripts, try diveintogreasemonkey.org or pick up Mark Pilgrim's Greasemonkey Hacks from O'Reilly Media.