An interesting list, especially as I have AdBlock and Greasemonkey installed.

On AdBlock - I would have to agree with their argument, however, it’s my browsing experience, not theirs, and as the pay-for-click-and-purchase (Whats the correct term, sorry) technology ramps up, people clicking ads to say “thanks” is gonna become useless. True, thats not always why people click - sometimes it’s because they see an ad for something they’re interested in purchasing, but for me, in the majority of cases, I prefer to read renowned blogs for info on products I might be interested in… know what I mean?

On Greasemonkey - Same kinda rules as any extension or script you download and install, and if you don’t know what you need it for, I wouldn’t recommend it anyway.

Still, a useful perspective.

Interesting to see that the one extension where you disagree with the article is NoScript - I think it is the one where they are really dead on. I wrote two articles on why NoScript does not keep you safer (rather the opposite because it makes you careless):

http://adblockplus.org/blog/blacklists-whitelists-and-security
http://adblockplus.org/blog/usability-vs-security

They seem to be correct about TrackMeNot and TBE but rest of the article is very questionable. E.g. they give the wrong reason why one shouldn’t use Fasterfox (the prefetching feature mentioned is no longer switched on by default), the reasoning behind listing Adblock/Adblock Plus is pretty lame (you can come up with lots of good reasons but recommending Nuke Anything Enhanced instead shows that they don’t mind people hiding ads as long as the advertisers don’t know about it and still pay them). And then they list a few “useless” add-ons - as if there is a point in enumerating all the add-ons people do not need.

Err, it seems like they’ve picked all of the really good ones and then given some suspicious reasoning… Adblock, for instance: advertisers have already tried to turn internet ads into nuclear war. Don’t you f*cking lecture ME about “being a good citizen”.

That said, i’ve had nothing but trouble (and serious trouble at that) with tabbrowser preferences/extensions… actually, any extension that starts with “tabbrowser” seems to be a complete disaster for me.