Paint Tomorrow Blue

I really like Fire­fox. Mostly, I like it because there are some add-ons I’ve come to depend on. I can install them and have iden­ti­cal tools across plat­forms for work and recre­ational web use. Since I switch between Mac OS, Linux, and Win­dows (some­times in the same day) that’s impor­tant to me.

So here are my add-ons. I don’t use as many as I used to. I’ve lost a few of my favorites in var­i­ous Fire­fox major upgrades, which makes me sad.

I’m post­ing this partly to have a list I can go back to and down­load them, and partly to share what I use.

Clip­pings — I mostly use this in answer­ing e-mail for Con­sumerist. Though just because I use pre-set responses doesn’t mean I don’t read and think about every e-mail that comes across my screen. I really do!

CoLT — This add-on lets you right click on a link and copy the text and hyper­link as HTML. (Or BBCode, or Wikipedia for­mat­ting, etc.) There are a few dif­fer­ent add-ons that do this. I like this one.

Mod­Plu­gin — This is a very spe­cific add-on, and maybe soon to be obso­lete, but it’s absolutely essen­tial for Freecy­cle moderators.

RECAP — Now that I’m a researcher for hire, I use PACER very rarely. But when I do, I con­tribute to RECAP’s rogue attempt to bring PACER into the 21st century.