9 112 2006-11-08T08:22:02-05:00 $Date: 2006-11-08 10:08:47 -0500 (Wed, 08 Nov 2006) $ NormanWalsh 2006Norman Walsh A little late to the party, I know, but all my “must have” extensions are finally available for Firefox 2.0. When Firefox 2.0 was first announced, several of my “must have” extensions weren't available for it, so I didn't bother to upgrade. Actually, Ubuntu upgraded for me, but I grabbed an old 1.5.x installer and started using that. I decided to check again this morning. Happily, it seems that all but two of the extensions I use routinely are now “2.0 ready” so I've made the switch. For what it's worth, I consider the following extensions mandatory: Adblock Plus Get your advertising out of my face. cmSiteNavigation Toolbar Make link elements useful. del.icio.us Quicker bookmarking. FireBug I forget, how did we used to debug client-side scripts before FireBug? Flashblock Get your animated advertising out of my face. Greasemonkey User scripts, baby. Your page my way. Mozex Edit textareas with Emacs like god intended. More generally, extend the tools that Firefox uses for a bunch of things. ScrapBook Squirrel away those pages you want to keep. SwitchProxy Tool This proxy, that proxy, which proxy do I need today? Sometimes I use this to switch between my local proxy and the corporate proxy I have to use when VPN is up. But mostly, I just have my vpn script reconfigure wwwoffle for me automatically. Tab Mix Plus Configure the behavior of one of Firefox's indispensable features: tabs. View Source Chart Pretty print your view source. I sent Jennifer $3, have you? Web Developer Web developer tools. The SwitchProxy Tool and Mozex extensions are the two that don't yet claim to support Firefox 2.0. But I hacked the install.rdf file in each and they both seem to work just fine. In the course of finding the latest versions of these extensions, I found a few more that I'm taking for a test drive. These seem like they might make the cut: Download Statusbar Inobtrusive download progress. Forecastfox Local weather. GetVideo Yes, sometimes YouTube gets my attention, but that doesn't mean I want to watch it in my browser. Map+ Shortcuts to street maps. What extensions are on your “must have” list?