What are the "Must Have" extensions for Firefox

[AMIGA500]

Originally Posted by rinem

Thanks for the Disconnect addon (also works for Chrome). Many pages i visit load 1,5 seconds faster now.

1-5 seconds is hardly significant to warrant using yet another extension.

[luciddream]

Originally Posted by rinem

Thanks for the Disconnect addon (also works for Chrome). Many pages i visit load 1,5 seconds faster now.

Holy crap... 5 seconds difference. No page takes more than 2 seconds to load for me, and most pop up instantaneously right after I click the link. And this is with all caching disabled. I can't imagine what one would have to do for it to take 5 seconds for a page to load.

[Pedro]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
Assuming he is not american or british *, his 1,5 is your 1.5, and not '1 or 5'.

*or some other dot user

[kupo]

Hellboy Firewall (Adblock Plus Alternative)
-https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hellboy-firewall/?src=search

Originally Posted by AMO

All we know the availability of popular AdBlockers lying around... but frankly, these are too bloated with several features and options which most of us don't use beyond the defaults. So, this extension was made for those of us who don't care about all that stuff but does about just getting rid of all the nasty resources being loaded by websites.

This is a lightweight extension (ie, 30KB compared to ~700KB of other popular adblockers), which was made with performance in mind. No configurable options, subscriptions, additional features, etc It just block what can go to hell ;-)

How this is achieved is thanks to just five hard-coded blocking rules covering about 3000 .com and .net domains, these were auto-generated from Easylist. That means, every time a certain resource wants to be loaded we will have to iterate through a list of five items, rather than for each entry from a common Easylist which contains thousands of different items to check... You can now figure things out for yourself...

[WSFuser]

@kupo - Have you tried that extension? Does it work well? Does it block ads in YouTube videos? Can it handle pop-ups?