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Here’s a list of my favourite extensions (in installed order):

• DOM Inspector This is actually bundled with Firefox itself – very useful for pulling a page apart and understanding its underlying structure
• Adblock Blocks annoying ads! Combined with Pierceive Filterset.G, it stops most ads
• View Rendered Source Chart This one is useful when you’re debugging scripts which modify the document structure.. it lets you view the page as it exists in memory (with sexy colours to boot!)
• IE View I still use IE view on my work machine, IE tab is also good.. I think you know what they do
• Nightly Tester Tools I’ve had this installed for a while as I usually run the latest builds of Firefox and extensions usually lag a few builds behind.. this forces them to be compatible
• Live HTTP Headers This extension lets you see what headers are being sent/recieved from the webserver you’re connecting to.. useful debugging tool
• Tabbrowser Preferences Extra prefs for tabbed browsing
• Web Developer Lots of useful functions on this toolbar, too many to list! A must have for any web developer
• User Agent Switcher I don’t use this much.. sometimes it’s useful for reading forums content when the forums only allow useragents of robots to view them without registration e.g. GoogleBot
• Javascript Debugger Currently disabled as it’s not been updated for a while.. was useful for stepping through javascripts and inspecting variables
• Favicon Picker My bookmarks toolbar uses only icons with no textual descriptions.. Therefore I can’t have any generic icons.. this lets me pick icons for sites which don’t have a favicon.ico
• Google Toolbar for Firefox I hate Firefox’s built in search box, Google Toolbar is a must-have
• Scrapbook Save pages or parts of pages for later review.. I used to use this a lot but Furl Toolbar has come into play more recently
• SnagIt Firefox Extension Capture whole pages, this extension automatically scrolls them to grab the whole thing
• Greasemonkey User scripts! Modify pages to suit you – e.g. Delete button for Gmail
• Furl Tools My Firefox 1.5 Fixed version Bookmark a page and save a snapshot of it so that even if the site goes down you’ll still have access to the original content of that page
• del.icio.us Social bookmarking, superb
• SessionSaver .2 Ever been knee deep in pages? 30 pages open around some random subject? 10 tabs per window, 3 windows? Need to shutdown or reboot? Save a snapshot of your session and reload it later! Also saves snapshots on the even of crash and reloads them at first restart
• Chrome Cleaner Clean out the cruft left by extension install/removal, speeds up Firefox
• Xinha Here! Textbox helper, HTML formatting, etc.
• DownThemAll! Want to download lots of links on a page but can’t be bothered to do them all manually? This is the tool for the job!