Your Current Must-Have Firefox Privacy Add-Ons

[altec]

Something I haven't even thought about in some time, but the recent news articles has me thinking.

What are the current must-have add-ons for Firefox relating to Privacy, and Security? The only thing I use is Adblock-Plus, but that is hardly enough.

Any personal favorites?

+Rep for anyone with suggestions.


When you start getting banner ads for the last item you looked at on Home Depot, you gotta start rethinking things a bit...

Firefox Plug-ins


I'd consider Flashblock. Annoying at times, but prevents Flash from automatically starting.

[Fuganater]

I say switch to Google Chrome. Its 100x faster than the new Firefox. Then you can just search ad blocker and install the top result.

[SXRguyinMA]

I've been using IE again as of late. The hew FF is slow and keeps hanging for no reason, and Chrome just sucks period lol

[crenn]

I'm still using FF as I have my FF sync set up with it (DAMN HANDY!) but the thing that helps a lot is not having a lot of tabs... I have a bad tab habit, this desktop currently has 469 tabs open so FF is using about 2GB of RAM. My laptop has about 100 or so tabs open and is using about 1GB of RAM or so. Usually when I only have about 50 tabs or so, FF is fine. But I agree that FF has been slower of late.

[Fuganater]

oO 469 tabs?? Thats alot of porn sites.

The new FF blows on Win 7 64-bit. Its slow with just 4-5 tabs. It chugs when switching tabs.

[crenn]

Never seen FF chug with 4-5 tabs (although I have seen it chug when I haven't restarted my laptop for a week or 2.... ). And the sad thing, of those 469 tabs, only 1 is adult orientated, and it's not a porn site ;P Unless you count electronic data sheets as porn.....

[AmEv]

Uhm, 469 tabs????


And you took the time to count????

[crenn]

466 tabs in one window, 3 tabs in another, attempt to close the window with the large amount of tabs and it will tell you how many tabs it has open that you're about to close.

[AmEv]

duh >_<

[TheGreatSatan]

I've been using IE again as of late. The hew FF is slow and keeps hanging for no reason, and Chrome just sucks period lol

I only use IE. Can't stand FF

[Fuganater]

I only use IE. Can't stand FF

Thats cuz your old school.

[TheGreatSatan]

I.E. 6 Ftw!

[AmEv]

w3m.

[altec]

Um, wasn't really thinking about what browser is the best, since they all have the same issue we are presented with. The question I was thinking about was what plug ins for privacy. A lot of websites (Facebook, Google, Ad Providers) are moving to tracking what you do after leaving there site, or simply any time.

I guess the basic question is what plug ins are out there to help block such things? Script blocking, more advanced cookie control, anything.

I'm more then fine with the way Firefox performs. I couldn't get into Chrome, and IE has never been my choice...

[AmEv]

I'd consider Flashblock.

Annoying at times, but prevents Flash from automatically starting.

AB+, too.

[985323]

I use opera, can't stand that slow firefox

[AmEv]

I used to use Rekonq, but there were some things about FF that I missed.


But yes, let's keep this on topic of "which plugins should I get"

[altec]

Flashblock sounds handy. I'll check it out! If you can set exemptions for specific sites, it would be very useful.

I have seen a couple recommendations for a Plug-in called NoScript. Anyone using that?

http://noscript.net/

[AmEv]

You can!


I'd also suggest, if you're on a slower connection, enabling pipelining.

Use at your own risk.

I've heard these settings are best

address bar =about:config

type in "pip" (no quotes

network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 10 (Side note, number higher, bigger chance of crashing server :whistler:
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true


*Not sure about flashblock and noscript at the same time though....
**Well, Youtube is on noscript's whitelist automatically.

[dr.walrus]

I.E. 6 Ftw!

slit wrists slit wrists slit wrists :hurt::dead:

Seriously though, while Chrome's UI doesn't suit anyone, its fast, its page rendering is great and it rarely ever crashes. Firefox (both new and 3.6) is pretty good, but there's been speed and stability issues. IE is slow, has really poor defaults, is missing absolutely tons of support...

IE6 doesn't even do PNG alpha transparency. Doesn't even render the box model properly!

[altec]

Bump for a cool Add-on! Just bumped into it, and so far it is kicking some ass!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

So far it seems to be blocking quite a bit of junk, and I can easily allow specific things if I want to allow site features to work (IGoogle for example).