Title: Coolest Firefox Extensions
Slug: coolest-firefox-extensions
Date: 2006-04-18 11:52:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Tools
Description: A list of the top three Firefox extensions: IETab, AdBlock/Adblock Plus, and AdBlock FilterSet.G.

**UPDATE:** This post is quite old, but I do still use Firefox and [maintain an updated list of addons/extensions](https://blog.kartones.net/page/firefox-addons/).


<p>I've been a <strong>Mozilla</strong> and later <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/">Firefox</a> user since years, and I've used some
tools/extensions in both of them for some time.</p>
<p>But with time, one gets lazy and when formatting each 6 months more or less
(I hope some day we'll have a Windows that doesn't degrades performance with
time) made me drop some of them (exactly, all but the "must-have" ones).</p>
<p>So actually I only use 3 of them:</p>
<ul><li><strong>IETab</strong>, which I've talked about previously.A Internet Explorer "tab" rendering inside Firefox
(great to stop using IE), with a "always render with IETab" list.
</li><li><strong>AdBlock</strong> /
<strong>Adblock Plus</strong>: The final solution to website Ads. Right click on an image, choose
"AdBlock image" and press enter (or use "*" as wildcard to block entire
paths/urls). I prefer the plus version but either one has the same functionality
and works quite well.
</li><li><strong>AdBlock FilterSet.G</strong> : Ok, if you're using AdBlock, why bother entering tons of ad
sites for the first time? This small extension downloads a great blacklist so
you have tons of work already done.</li></ul>
<p>Here's a quick example of how AdBlock cleans your web surfing:</p><p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/screenshots/no_adblock.jpg" title="No adblock" alt="No adblock" height="289" border="0" width="350">     <img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/screenshots/adblock.jpg" title="adblock" alt="adblock" height="288" border="0" width="350"><br></p>