Essential Firefox 2 Plugins

The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. (You can look for these plugins for Firefox 3 too, but the links are for 2 only)

If you still not using Firefox get it now.

Here are some 'Essential' Firefox plugins :P
(Based purely on my preferences)

1) Adblock Plus

The net is flooded by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Adblock comes to the rescue.
Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

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2) Foxmarks :Bookmark synchronizer

If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks to sync your bookmarks or how many times have you reinstalled Firefox and wished you had all your bookmarks back... so here is the solution.
Just create a account on www.foxmarks.com download Foxmarks plugin
and you are good to go.

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3) Flashgot

Flashgot helps you integrate almost any download manager with Firefox. It is the best Firefox download manager integration.

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4) Download Statusbar

Anyone using Firefox will agree that the Firefox download window is really irritating. Download Statusbar provides an effective solution. You can view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

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5) Password Exporter

Although not very popular but a useful plug in. This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported in another browser or computer. This will also be useful when you reinstall Firefox.
(IMP: Storing passwords may be a threat to your privacy if not done effectively)

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# Other Useful Plugins

6) Session Manager

Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs.

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7) Video DownloadHelper

The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries too.

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