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whats your favorite themes and extensions. i think it would be nice to know your opinions.

I use the classic theme, which makes Firefox render and start very fast. But I have hundrets of plugins installed, most notably:

• Download Manager Tweak - additional options for the download manager (although I use wget mostly)
• Nuke Anything - enables me to remove disturbing objects on a web page (ads, senseless frames, annoyingly misplaced pictures, table cells and so on)
• Optimoz Tweaks - makes the side-bar disappear automatically
• TargetAlert - shows me what kind of content a link is pointing to
• Tweak Network - makes more network options available via configuration dialog
• Linkification - turns simple text into hypertext
• Tabbrowser Preferences - a lot more options regarding tabbed browsing (which I couldn't live without)
• Forecastfox - weather forecast and current conditions in my status line

I use only 2 extensions and those are

Add n Edit Cookies: Speaks for itself, comes in handy sometimes
Tamper Data: Tamper with post data sent to sites

grtz

forcast fox, reloadevery, google toolbar

My favorites..
The best extension.
Super Drag and Go
Others I generally use:
Colorzilla
Tab browser preferences
Customize Google

I couldn't go a day without sessionsaver (allows re-opening closed tabs, remembers all open tabs, status including text you have entered in a text box).
I also recommend TabX (purely estetical), Adblock (no more annoying flash ads with sounds and stops the few popups that get past firefox) and download statusbar occassionally I also use IE view and Image zoom.

Other plugins of interrests are web developer and HTML validator for web developers.

If you use the Tamper Data plugin you would probably also look into the refspoof plugin for spoofing HTTP_REFERER and whatever the plugin is that gives you a dropdown to change User Agent on the fly.

MERLiiN

I've come across some interesting extensions, but the only one I've ever installed and used is ForecastFox - and it works great - gives me tsunami alerts and everything before they come on any news websites.

Colourful tab is nice i think. It colours every tab of other colour. It looks nice.

One of the extension's I like is switchproxy tool it switches proxie's while your browsing so your surfing anonymouslley.

I'm using 5 extensions:

Auto Copy - copying text is now very handy and fast, just like in mIRC
FlashGot - for many download managers
Gmail Notifier - you don't have to use Outlook to know when you got new mail
IE View - quite handy if a website isn't compatible with Firefox (I'm thinking of swapping this one for IE Tab)
NoScript - a safer Firefox

I alway's go fot a minimalist theme, trying to maximize my screen space,

The only two plugins i use regularly and keep around ar gmail notifier and tabbed browser.

I do however add lots of search engines to my search tool, php, man pages etc.

As for themes: Mostly Crystal by CatThief. Check it out, it's really nice

Extensions: I don't personally use any, but there is an article here about what the Mozilla foundation thinks the best extensions are:

http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=856

Hope this helps

I like the NF-Tools extension. It's got some useful little things (ACII <-> Hex, ASCII <-> Binary, Base 64 encode/decode)
Ok, maybe not THAT useful, but fun to play around with, and nice to have available.
http://www.net-force.nl/

I'm surprised no one mentioned FreFTP. It's a pretty good FTP client and it can be run in a Firefox tab. For people who have a hard time staying focused (like me) it can be nice if the server you're connected to relates to whatever it is you're doing on the web.

Tab Mix Plus is first on my list though... sorting tab order, recovering lost tabs, loading bars, etc. This extension completes the best UI feature of Firefox.

That IE tab extesion is great too if you run windows... I remember it being a real pain having to open up IE sometimes, running it in a Firefox tab always made me feel a lot better about it for some reason haha.

DaCapn