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