To build on my previous post concerning Windows apps, I’d like to suggest some Firefox extensions for your enjoyment. I think that my small readership will appreciate this list, especially those who complained that my previous post simply did not apply to their Mac-centric lives.

My current Firefox install contains 19 extensions. Instead of listing the most popular (adblock, web developer, etc.) I will instead give you the more obscure (yet handy) extensions that I’ve encountered:

• Colorful Tabs - Colors the tabs in Firefox. Looks great. The author’s homepage features a bizarre circa-1997 FRAME layout, which makes navigation exciting. If you can find the installer you’re in for a treat.
• Download Statusbar - Rid yourself of that annoying download window. Instead, download progress will quietly show up in the status bar. I especially like the gradient progress bars.
• Duplicate Tab - Right click on a tab and select “Duplicate Tab”. Why isn’t this built into Firefox?
• FindBar Switcher - Hit CTRL-F to make the find bar appear and disappear. Another one for the “soon to be included in Firefox” list.
• Fission - Turns your bland white address bar background into a sleek blue progress bar. No need to switch now!
• Google Pagerank Status - Displays the Google PageRank in the status bar. You SEO fiends can finally uninstall that clunk Google Toolbar extension.
• Live HTTP Headers - Displays the HTTP headers sent and received by Firefox while you browse. I’ve devoted multiple weeks of my life to writing various debug proxies. Happily, all my hard work is obsoleted by this simple extension.
• NextPlease! - Many sites slice a single article across multiple pages, either to artificially inflate ad views or reduce server load. NextPlease! let’s you navigate to the “next page” using a keyboard shortcut. Works with nytimes, gamespot, google, tom’s hardware, ebay, google… The list goes on and on. Great!
• Super DragAndGo - Click and drag to “throw” a link toward the top of the screen and open it in a new tab. I use this dozens of times each day. Indispensable.
• TableTools - Windows really spoiled us by making most tables easily sortable. The fact that many HTML tables still can’t be sorted is a sad testament to the complexities of CSS, HTML and SQL. The TableTools extension offers lots of strange and wonderful features which I don’t use, but I adore its ability to sort tables.