[JerseyHighlander]

I upgraded to FF4 and immediately stopped using it. Only now are my extensions being updated to FF4, ..heh. Had been using Firefox since Firebird 0.6xx Alpha, many years past.

Xinha Here! 0.17 is absolutely essential for posting to FR.

MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.4, Tiny Menu 2.0.2, and UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) 1.7.0 are essential to shrink the amount of screen real estate used for menus. IN combination a much better system than the FF4 hidden menubar IMHO.

THe following was generated using the InfoLister 0.10.4a1 extension:

Last updated: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:11:50 GMT

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Extensions (enabled: 61, disabled: 1):

• Adblock Plus 1.3.8
• Add Bookmark Here ² 4.0.20110615
• Add-on Collector 2.0.1
• Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.8.5
• All-in-One Gestures 0.22.0
• All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.13
• AniDisableHacked 1.2
• BetterCache 1.25
• BetterPrivacy 1.51
• Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics 1.2.5
• ChatZilla 0.9.87
• Chrome View 0.2.2
• CookieCuller 1.4
• deskCut 0.6.0.3
• DictionarySearch 4.0.1
• DownloadHelper 4.9.3
• Duplicate Tab 1.0.2
• EPUBReader 1.4.1.0
• FastestFox 4.3.7
• FEBE 6.3.3.2
• FireFoxMenuButtons 2.0.1
• Flashblock 1.5.14.2
• Forecastfox Weather 2.0.2
• FoxyProxy Standard 3.0.1
• Ghostery 2.5.3
• gTranslate 0.8
• IE Tab 2 (FF 3.6+) 3.5.9.1
• IE View 1.4.5.1
• Image Zoom 0.4.6
• InfoLister 0.10.4a1
• Java Console 6.0.22
• Java Console 6.0.23
• Java Console 6.0.24
• LOOP for Firefox 2.1
• Map This 0.3.1
• Menu Editor 1.2.7
• MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.4
• Neo Diggler 1.0.6
• Nightly Tester Tools 3.1.7
• NoScript 2.1.1.1
• OperaView 0.7
• OPIE 1.2.3
• PDF Download 3.0.0.2
• printpdf 0.76
• QuickNote 0.6.0.8
• ReloadEvery 4.0.3
• RightToClick 2.8.7
• TACO with Abine 3.65
• Tiny Menu 2.0.2
• Toolbar Buttons 1.0
• translator (fixed) 1.0.4.4.4
• UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) 1.7.0
• Undo Closed Tabs Button 3.7.1
• Uppity 1.5.7
• URL Link 2.03.3
• Web Developer 1.1.9
• Xinha Here! 0.17
• Yet Another Window Resizer 1.21

Themes (5):

• Nautipolis for Firefox 1.8.72 [selected]

[jimjohn]

Good thing I never downloaded FF4.
Will wait for FF5 and benchmark it myself

[ShadowAce]

That's a lot of extensions.

Tab Mix Plus will replace several of those.

[aquila48]

Thanks for the list!

[bcsco]

Link for Xinha Here! 0.17 doesn’t work. Get a ‘page not found’ sheet. Also, it comes up empty when going through add-ons search.

[CedarDave]

One of the reasons I’m still using Firefox 3.6.18 is the problem with addons not being compatible with the upgrade. Further, with the slowness and crashes reported with version 4, I think I’ll stick with version 3 for a while, at least until version 5 is proofed a bit longer.

The add-ons that I find most useful with Free Republic and other non-HTML bulletin boards are BBCode and BBCodeXtra. They allow one click posting of URL’s, images, bold, italics, etc. Also, Word Count Plus which allows me to not violate FR’s excerpting rules (1/3 of total article words or 300 words, whichever is less) when preparing an article for posting.

Other ones useful to me are Tab Saver (restores tabs if you accidentally close the Firefox window), and Tab X which gives each tab a close button.

I was given help with the incompatibility of add-ons with never Firefox versions by installing Add-on Compatibility Reporter which will identify incompatible add-ons but allow you to continue using them at your own risk, of course. Here is the information on this add-on:

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/01/firefox-add-on-compatibility-reporter-force-add-on-compatibility/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/