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NoScript is definitely one of the most useful extensions ever! Have a site that somehow gets pop-ups past you? Well, they work via javascript, so fuck 'em! New security vulnerability due to JS somehow? Fuck 'em again! Ads in general? Fuck 'em, they use JS! Badly coded tag soup websites that depend on JS? Fuck 'em and their incompetent web developers!

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FoxyTunes 1.1.5.4
Linkification 1.1.6*
Location Navigator 0.6* (for porn)
Menu Editor 1.2
MR Tech Local Install 4.0
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Update Channel Selector 1.0.1
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I use Linkification for firefox. I think that the author of this "linkification" software should be put in jail because it just automatically hyperlinked the clear text you wrote, providing a means by which I can subvert intellectual property that I may not have previously had.

Then you want Linkification . Absolutely necessary on Slashdot

First, I'd like to say that (1) I use FireFox and (2) Opera's UI has some nice unique features. On the other hand, some of those features do exist in FireFox (at least with the extensions that I use).

There are multiple session management extensions. I have the Tabbrowser Extensions session management module enabled, and, although I do not use it much, I believe it does what you say Opera's does. Although, from my experience with Opera's session management, it's very nicely done.

In FireFox, I have the "zap colors" and "zap images" bookmarklets on my bookmarks toolbar. You can also go to view-->Page Style-->No Style, but that's not one-click.

Page zooming is one feature that stands out as very nice in Opera. I don't know why it is not in FireFox.
Paste and go I've never used.

Go To URL of selected text can be done a few ways in FireFox:
1. Highligh text URL and drag it to the tab bar.
2. There was an extension "Text links" or something like that that if you highlighted a URL it gave a "open url in new tab/window" option. I'm not sure if it works with the latest version.
3. I use an extension Linkification which uses regular expressions to automatically make plain text links into links. (very nice when viewing .txt files)

Close tab by middle clicking... I didn't know this wasn't default in FireFox. I guess Tabbrowser Extensions must do it.

Keyboard support... this is another feature which sounds like it's very nice on Opera.

The ability to copy the URL of any conceivable page, frame, image, or link with two clicks
Sounds like FireFox is beaten there, too. You have to right-click and goto to page/frame info and then copy it, although it does have "copy image location".

Because I use linkification which frees me from having to worry about such mundalities.

I find its main use is for reading /. comments when idiots like me forget to put the anchor tags in ;)

Posted as plain text by mistake ;)

No problem with Linkification. Nice extension for Firefox which converts plain text links into "real" links.

linkification extension for firefox for copy-and-pasting impaired.

You can install Linkification that allows you "to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links". Well, of course I am assuming you are not running IE!

From the author's page:

Windows Update - Adds a Windows Update menuitem under the Firefox (0.9+) tools menu (Opens IE to windowsupdate site)

Heh, I was about to say, "But he *did* link it!" until I realized that the simple-but-oh-so-convenient Firefox extension called "Linkification" had seamlessly made the plain-text url into a hyperlink for me. :)

Sorry, I'm just too damn lazy! Plus I use an extension to Firefoz which automatically converts any links / emails to hyperlinks for me.

Have a look at http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/ (*ahem* http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/) - converts text links to genuine, bona fide hyperlinks.

Tabbrowser extensions, to get the tabs reacting the way I want(i.e everything in the same browser window, middle mouse click on the tabbar opens an accidently closed tab).

And for browsing Slashdot, this kind of helps.

"So you want windowsupdate to be broken for these people? It don't work with firefox, bub." It's not a native solution, but there's always the WindowsUpdate extension.

Or you could install this extension (latest version here) and just click the link. ;)

Making the URL a link makes it much easier to /. a site