Some useful Firefox plugins

Recently I have been playing with several browsers on my computer. There's the new Safari on my MacBook, Internet Explorer 8 on my virtual machine and finally the all new and lightning-fast Google Chrome browser. I had been a hardcore Firefox user before playing with those new browsers, but since all the browsers become more similar with every version (Tabbed browsing, smart address bar, etc.) I didn't miss my Firefox browser that much.

Now I have come back to Firefox, though. The main reason for that is the huge number of useful plugins (or extensions as Firefox calls them) out there. I figured it might be a good thing to share which plugins I am currently using,  and maybe get some suggestions for other awesome plug-ins out there.

First off are extensions that provide for a better browsing experience:

• Adblock Plus frees web sites from nagging advertisements
• Delicious Bookmarks best bookmark management plugin imho
• feedly puts a sleek newspaper design around your google reader and integrates more social  functionality.
• Quickdrag assigns functions and shortcuts to drag actions.
• Addto Search Bar lets you extend the search bar by a simply right clicking the search box on a search site.
• NoScript protects you by allowing only white listed sites to execute java script code
• CoolPreview provides quick previews for links so that you don't have to clutter your browser with more tabs. It's called Picture-in-picture Browsing.
• SkipScreen skips annoying screens on suspicious download sites like rapidshare.com

For social networking I have found useful:

• TwitterBar let's you twitter right from your address bar. 
• ScribeFire let's you write blogentries like for blogger.com

Now plugins for a better multimedia experience:

• DownloadHelper helps you download and convert videos from all the famous flash video sites.
• DownThemAll is a very useful add-on for downloading galleries from web sites or any other linked mass files - a huge time saver
• fire.fm integrates gives you last.fm radio and functionality for free right beneath your address bar.

And for development:

• Elasticfox gives you a GUI to your amazon EC2 services. very useful and time saving if you work with Amazon cloud services.
• Similarly S3Fox facilitates management of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Not working with Firefox 3.6 yet, though) 

Those extensions make up my current selection on my Firefox installation. Although Chrome might be a little faster than Firefox, it is the amount of useful extensions and highly customizability that make  Firefox  my browser of choice once again.