What are the "Must Have" extensions for Firefox

Heck I'm a step ahead of ya... I have caching disabled to begin with.

and no, it doesn't slow me down one bit, surprisingly. I expected that it would and that it wouldn't be a tweak I'd stick with. But it doesn't.

 

Ah that's clever and effective. I use only use ABP and NoScript by the way.

 

Well, I had it disabled, too, but found that it slowed me down on some sites (usually portals or newspaper sites) I frequently visit. Allowing a "session cache" is a compromise like allowing session cookies which I'm willing to accept.

 

Just add Fanboy's Ultimate List. And nothing else.

 

I think most people in here, as seriously as they take security, would trade some for usability. I know I would. If my browsing habits made it so that denying cookies or disabling my cache made things inconvenient, it wouldn't be that way.

 

I may just do that...

 

werent you using requestpolicy? what happened to that, too annoying? lol

 

RequestPolicy is not needed when I've got NoScript. Maybe I'll try it again when v1.0 comes out. It will come with some new features I hear.

 

Thanks.

 

Welcome.

 

@Pedro
Thanks for that Hit Hider, between all the privacy obsessed ramblings here, this truly is a "must have" extension. Thanks a lot !

 

You're welcome.

 

Anyone have any experience with PrivacyFix extension mentioned here and here?

 

securelogin (on of the best extention for me) is dead ,i won't be developed no more
is there an alternative?

thanks

 

URLFilter

Author claims it is using much less memory than Adblock Plus, so if you are using a netbook and want to reserve ram as much as possible, you can use this as an alternative.

 

Same question here.

 

For me the must have extensions are Adblock Plus & LastPass.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-addons-memory/

Could be very handy, about to give it a try....

 

@ ChrisRetUSN (spelled that way because I'm guessing Chris, Retired U.S. Navy):

I use LastPass. I'm not sure if it does the same thing as the plugin that you mention. It basically stores (and can generate strong) passwords. It can automatically sign in to pages for you, to save you time. It appears to use good encryption to store the passwords. The other nice thing is that if there is something else you need to remember you can store it as a secure note in your so-called LastPass Vault. Once set up you will need only remember your master password. I really like it.

-HandsOff

P.S. - one more, for photographers there are two plugins, "Exif Viewer" and "Exify" that are quite handy. If you don't know what EXIF means you probably are not interested

 

Not a fan of "cloud" password storage. That said I have looked at LastPass just can't bring my self to use it. Perhaps someday.

I eventually dumped Secure Login because it's now under the control of Abine, Inc; a company I do not trust. A secondary reason was lack of updates, a tertiary reason, it was failing on some sites. I bought in to Secure Login because it was convenient (One button login) and reportedly "more secure" than just simply using the built in Firefox password manager. Now that I am back at using the built in password manager, I feel the "more secure" was just "in name".

Convenience wise, using the default is not so bad, on some sites the login data is already filled in so it's still one click login. On sites like Wilder's I only need to enter the first character of my login to get a suggested login, clicking that adds the password. This does not work on all sites, but I have found and extensions that does, at least I have not found a site it does not work on. That extension is QuickPasswords :: Add-ons for Firefox. It not one button login but it's still better that having to type.

Other add-ons I use that are password related are:
Password Exporter :: Add-ons for Firefox
Saved Password Editor :: Add-ons for Firefox
Show My Password :: Add-ons for Firefox

I regularly (scheduled dailies) backup my /home directory and use FEBE :: Add-ons for Firefox to backup as needed. On top of that I have my own Firefox Sync server.

I used KeePass for a while and will probably go back it. I put my self in a bind with KeePass though, I have a password database I cannot access, in addition to a passphrase it needed a key file to open, unfortunate for me, the key file was wiped from the USB stick it was stored on. Yes, stupid me, no backups, even sadder, the key file was really overkill on my part. Lucky for me, most of what was stored in that now worthless password file was stored in Firefox's password manager. Have I learned my lesson? Probably not, been at this stuff since the late sixties, every once in a while stupid bites me in the rear.

@HandsOff, you guessed correctly.

 

Session Manager - useful for backing up last open pages when a Firefox session crashes.

 

Lazarus.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-addons-memory/?src=ss

Not necessarily a must have extension though, just out of curiosity it's worth it.

 

Just discovered Cookie Manager Plus. You can edit the expiration date of cookies, essentially making them last forever, or for the rest of your life anyway. Great for sites you wanna stay logged in to.

 

This extension may have been posted if so i apologize for re-posting. I've not had much experience with these User Agent tools, but when i found this then discovered how versatile it was i thought I'd share it. After downloading you have the option to import user agents, you should see the list..

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/?src=search

Enjoy!
Hogndog