Favorite extensions for browser

Firefox Browser

1. 1 Password: Password and identity manager for Mac, Windows, IOS & Android.
2. Google Shortcuts: Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to your address bar. Reach services like Gmail, Google reader, Google maps, Google calendar, and many more in a single click from your browser.
3. Firefogg: Video & audio encoding for Firefox.

I use Firefox. My three essentials:

Adblock Plus -- How can anyone do without this? It's spectacular!
1Password -- Automatically insert those userids and passwords! Whew!
Ghostery -- See and block web browsing trackers (e.g. ad networks). Sure are a lot of 'em.

Adblock Plus is what has always kept me on Firefox. (Well, that and general lazyness.) I understand there's an Adblock for Safari (by a diff. developer), but the last time I checked (quite awhile ago) it lacked the blocking list subscription feature, which I've found key to my happiness. Now I don't have to enter/maintain blocking rules, someone else does it very competently, for free!

For Safari:

1Password
ClickToFlash

For Firefox:

1Password
FlashBlock

I get tired of all the Flash that loads on some pages.

Vimari

It lets you use the keyboard to "click" on links.

https://github.com/guyht/vimari

Here is my list - I have to say I highly recommend "Unread->Tabs" - basically with a Ctrl-Click and select the option it will take all unread threads (i.e. those with new posts), and open each in its own tab, simply brilliant for form reading...

Brian33 said:

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Adblock Plus is what has always kept me on Firefox. (Well, that and general lazyness.) I understand there's an Adblock for Safari (by a diff. developer), but the last time I checked (quite awhile ago) it lacked the blocking list subscription feature, which I've found key to my happiness. Now I don't have to enter/maintain blocking rules, someone else does it very competently, for free!

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There's a beta of Adblock Plus for Safari now and the Adblock for Safari has used subscriptions for a while now. WHat's keeping me on firefox is cookie management.

Thanks, Bear, good to know. And if I get tempted to switch to Safari now I'll know to check out the cookie management, too.

Weaselboy said:

I have been using the app Cookie for cookie management. Basically you check mark which cookies you want to keep (whitelist) and the app deletes everything else. I have it configured to run when I quit Safari. It also allows you to whitelist Safari local storage entries in the same way.

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It looks interesting, but it leaves a few questions. Can you configure it so cookies for some sites are kept until they expire, some are kept for the session (until browser quit) and some totally blocked (or removed right away)? Firefox allows for all three.

Also, it looks like it runs as a separate program instead of a browser extension. Is that correct?

Google Voice
AdBlock
ScriptSage
1Password