I use Adblock Plus, Colorful Tabs (puts each tab in a different color), Download Statusbar, FEBE, Flashblock, IE Tab (lets you use Firefox on IE-only sites), NoScript, Save Image in Folder (lets you save web images directly to specific folders or drives), and United States English Dictionary.

I use DownloadHelper instead of Unplug because you don’t need to switch page to grab flash video. I used the RedShift theme with FF2 but since it not supported In FF3 I found Zdark to replace it at least until RedShift get supported in FF3.

Check4Change is pretty good too if you need to keep an eye for an update that coming to a page soon. I lost TorrentBar with FF3 but the Torrent Finder toolbar is almost has good. RAMBack let you clear your cache.

Flagfox display a country flag of the server of the page you are visiting. That about it!

why don’t you warn commentors NOT to use http:// ??????

MY FIREFOX

FIREFOX MEDIA PLUGINS

after download,be sure to click each downloads update link
 addons.mozilla.org

Java
you can refuse the Yahoo Toolbar download included

Shockwave
refuse the Norton Toolbar download

Real Player

Windows Media Player

Flash

Quicktime
watch for:
itunes download
newsletters
“other” Apple updates
uncheck each of these

DivX for Windows - DivX Play 6.8.0.30
http://www.brothersoft.com/divx-play-72094.html

Codecs:

Vista Codec Package
Compiles the best codecs from all the big name codec packs
 majorgeeks.com

UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it’s a video download tool
 addons.mozilla.org

ABOUT:CONFIG

Firefox Slow Page Load - Solved

A co-worker showed me an interesting problem with Firefox today.
He loaded a page from our application (running on localhost) and the page content loaded instantly, but the page load itself didn’t end until a time out 20 seconds later.
Literally.Everything we saw a measured from the browser or from the sending application showed that the content was sent in milliseconds, and the page load was just sitting there doing nothing. We were even using the latest Firefox beta.
Other browsers had no such problem.
Turns out, we figured out what was going on using the Tamper Data add-on.Turns out there was a Connection:
keep-alive in the header. When we changed it from keep-alive to close, the browser behaved as expected. That is, it loaded the page instantly.A little web investigation showed that when you use the keep-alive attribute you must also use Content-Length: header, which the sending application wasn’t doing.
A quick application tweak to send the content length, and everything ran super spiffy.Now, if you don’t have access to the application that’s sending you web pages, you can twiddle with the about:config and change the network.http.keep-alive setting to false.

about:config adaptations to make Firefox faster

To configure the firefox browser:

3. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

(you can find these quickly by typing “network.http” in the filter field)

* network.http.pipelining
* network.http.proxy.pipelining
* network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
4. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 20. This means it will make 20 requests at once (8 should however be adequate to provide a significant boost).

Fetch only what you click.
Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.
enter about:config in the searchbar
press enter or click go
in the filter text box,enter:
network.prefetch-next
right click on false and select toggle to switch to: true

Limit RAM usage

All versions: Goodness knows I’ve done a good amount of belly-aching about Firefox’s voracious appetite for RAM. (It’s consistently the most memory-intensive process on both my PC and Mac.) Happily a simple config tweak got Mem Use right back down to a more comfortable number. Along with the previous prefetch mod, set your browser.cache.disk.capacity to a value that fits your total RAM.
Depends on your system’s total memory. According to Computerworld:
right click on value and select modify,enter 5000

layout.spellcheckDefault turns on Firefox 3’s spell-checking in input fields as well as textareas.
including the subject line in email page

Slow Page Load
enter in filter:
network.http.keep.alive
right click true,select modify,enter: false

watch page loads whoose up at you!

AWSOME BAR FIX

With Firefox 3’s Download Day upon us, a lot of folks are getting their first peek at the newest version of the popular browser. One of the first things you’ll notice is the “Awesome Bar,” a new feature that drops down a list of sites from your history and bookmarks as you type. For example, you could type “d,” and your bookmark for Download Squad would pop up, along with downforeveryoneorjustme.com, if you’ve recently visited it.

For some people, this is going to be handy, but others are going to hate it. We have mixed opinions about the Awesome Bar here at Download Squad, so we’re going to show you how to turn it off. First, go to your Firefox settings by putting “about:config” into the location bar. Click past the warning message, and scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults. This sets how many recommendations the Awesome Bar will display — it’s 12 by default, but you want to change it to 0.

Now your location bar should act more the one you’re used to from Firefox 2. It’ll still autocomplete addresses of sites you’ve been to, but the behavior that’s been annoying some people so much will be gone. Alternately, an extension called Oldbar will give you back Firefox 2’s dropdown behavior.

Tweak Firefox to Display Richer Colors [Firefox 3]
from Lifehacker by Gina Trapani

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color management capability isn’t turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar, then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn’t this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you’ll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you’ve got a reasonably fast machine, it’ll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox’s color profile support.

STOP BLINKING
If blinking text on a web page (like in the comments here on Lifehacker) is threatening to give you a seizure—or just making your head hurt—you can disable it in Firefox with a simple configuration tweak. No extension or user script required: just type about:config in Firefox’s address bar, press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button, and then in the Filter field, enter browser.blink_allowed. Change [ toggle ] the value for that key from true to false, and you’re good to go, no more blinking, ever again.

note:

when making changes from true to false or vice versa,choose toggle

when changing numbers,choose modify

My Firefox Extensions:

Nightly Tester Tools ::
The following is a brief list of the extension’s features, for the full set of features please visit the extension home page.

* Extension compatibility fixing
 addons.mozilla.org

Image Zoom ::
Adds zoom functionality for images

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen

Page Zoom - Zoom all images on a web page with a single command or make all images on a page zoom with the browsers text zoom feature .
 addons.mozilla.org

Finjan Vital Security- SecureBrowsing
Gives you the highest rate of malicious code detection:

* Scans the current form of a page as it available on the Web now, in real-time.
* Detects malicious content based on code analysis, rather than using signatures like anti-virus products.
* Provides the most accurate page safety rating based on the actual page content, rather than database lookup of web address like URL filtering products.
 securebrowsing.finjan.com

Dr . Web anti-virus link checker ::
This plugin allows you to check any file you are about to download, any page you are about to visit with online version of Dr.Web anti-virus!

New menu item “Scan with Dr.Web” will appear on hyperlink context menu.
 addons.mozilla.org

BLOCK SITE
BlockSite is an extension, which automagically blocks websites of your choice. Additionally, this extension will disable all hyperlinks to these websites, by just displaying the link text without the clicking functionality. This extension should by no means be used for parental control or access control purposes, just because it isn’t secure and can easily be disabled or even removed. This extension adds the site blocking functionality that was removed from Adblock Plus.
 addons.mozilla.org

Paste Email Plus
Paste Email Plus is an enhanced version of the original Paste Email extension. (See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1063) It is not an update, but a completely new, different extension (with a different GUID).

Paste Email Plus allows you to store unlimited textlines that can be pasted into any online textbox field. It is useful for filling forms with commonly entered text such as email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, forum signatures or any other long and/or awkward text that you frequently type into online forms.

Paste Email Plus supports password encryption, multi-line pastetext, and even text file upload for large pastes. Paste Email (original) textlines can be imported.
 customsoftwareconsult.com

Colt
CoLT makes it easy to copy either a hyperlink’s text or both the link and the link’s text (in a format you specify). Two handy context-menu items make this possible, and don’t add clutter; the items are only visible when right-clicking a link!
 addons.mozilla.org

Cooliris
* Preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking.
* View Google & Yahoo Image Search in ultra slideshow mode
* Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.
* Automatically subsearch Google, Wikipedia, and many others by right-clicking on any phrase
* Customize preferences to control preview window activation, time delay, size & position, etc.
 addons.mozilla.org
cooliris_previews-2.6.3-fx+mz.xpi

Forecastfox ™ ::
Get local,national & international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable
 addons.mozilla.org

 mozdev.org - numberedlinks: index
Numberedlinks allows web navigation via unique numbers next to links, buttons, and other elements. This makes it possible to browse the web without a mouse, especially together with mozless or other keybinding extensions.
[ press H to activate ]
 numberedlinks.mozdev.org

I recommend my life saver: Select-n-Go by Cleeki:

http://www.cleeki.com/firefox.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7750

Firefox’s enhanced alternative to IE8 Accelerator (Activities). Select any text on your screen, and you can preview search results immediately in the same page. Support Google (text, image, …), YouTube, Maps, Amazon, etc. and you can manage/add your own channels.