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Originally Posted by Dave Berk
Well, I must say I'm liking FF3 even more than I liked opera. I've got everything I need now apart from a "fit to width" feature.
The extensions I'm using:
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And thanks to DMcCunney for the suggestions.
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You're welcome. I use Tab Mix Plus and NoScript here. I don't bother with AdBlock Plus. Part of the core of AdBlock Plus is FiltersetP, a set of CSS rules. The rules define things that are considered ads, and simply tell Firefox not to display those elements. I enable FiltersetP via the Stylish extension, which applies arbitrary CSS to specified sites. Stylish can also be used to style Firefox itself, since the look and feel of the browser is determined by XUL, CSS, and JavaScript, and interpreted and displayed by the Gecko rendering engine.
I'm currently using the following set of extensions: (Click the name to visit the extension's home page)
Enabled Extensions: [20]
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All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.6
Comprehensive Sidebar control and extensions
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Better Gmail 2 0.5
A variety of GMail tweaks
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CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.9.3
Icons for just about all menu items
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Dict 0.6.73
Look up a selected word on a dict server
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DOM Inspector 2.0.0
Document Object Model inspector, formerly included with FF, separate in FF3
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Firebug 1.2.0b4
Superb web debugging tool
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Firesomething 1.8.0
"All your branding are belong to Firesomething!" 
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Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.4.1
Notifications of new GMail messages
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Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
Run arbitrary JavaScript on specified pages
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Image Zoom 0.3.1
Image zoom functions I wish were built in to FF
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MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1
Add-on/theme management utility. This list was produced by it.
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NoScript 1.7.4
Block all scripting on sites not in a whitelist
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Prism for Firefox 0.2
Create a desktop shortcut to view the selected page in Prism
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Sage 1.4.2
My preferred RSS reader
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ScribeFire 2.2.7
Full-featured blog editor
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SpiderZilla 1.6.0
Mirror a site locally with httrack
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SQLite Manager 0.2.46
Sqlite database inspection tool
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Stylish 0.5.7
Apply arbitrary CSS to web pages, without a browser restart
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Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080416
Comprehensive tab management and control
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TotalToolbar 1.3
Toolbar control, which can modify the Status bar, too.
I'm also using a third-party build called Minefield. Technically, Minefiled is a "latest trunk build", compiled from nightly sources for testing purposes.
The default distribution of Firefox is a "lowest common denominator" version, expected to work on any machine using the Intel i386 architecture. But newer machines with more recent model Intel and AMD CPUs support advanced instructions (like SSE/SSE2) that can make things faster if used. FF doesn't use these by default because not all machines have them, and an FF build using them would not run on those machines. Various developers have been contributing optimized builds compiled to use those advanced instructions for people who have the hardware to run them.
My copy of Minefield is one of those, compiled from the FF 3.0 release source to use SSE/SSE2, which is available on my Pentium4 CPU. I've only been playing with a a few days, but it seems faster and more responsive.
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Dennis