Browser neepery

I am clearly getting old. There was a time when the announcement of a new beta of a new version of Firefox would have had me running to get the latest and greatest and get it installed. These days, however, I seem to be less excited about having the bleeding edge, and more interested in having the functionality I want. Since 1.5 generally, and 1.5 beta 2 in particular, don’t seem to have any particular feature that I feel I need, I am more comfortable staying with 1.0.7, and with all my skins and plugins working…

For the record, I use Noia eXtreme as my skin, and I have these plugins installed:

Spoofstick – anti-phishing tool, puts the actual domain of the page you are viewing on the menu, and provides protection against unicode-spoof, etc.

mozcc – finds Creative Commons license information on a page and displays the information as a series of nifty little status bar icons. If you were looking at this page in a browser with this plugin you would see something like this in the status bar:

FxIF – see the EXIF block from any jpg from the image properties page in the browser

Named Anchors – adds a pane to the page information showing all named anchors within the page. Very handy when you want to link into a certain point in a page, but you don’t want to search through the source to see if there are any named anchors.

Link Toolbar – Provides snazzy little navigation arrows for sites with link information embedded in the pages.

Adblock – My favourite plugin. Keeps a list of regular expressions, and refuses to load any URL that matches any expression on the list. You can add things easily to the list via right click, or from menu items–and the menu can even generate a list of ‘blockable’ content for you to choose from. Liberal use of this means that I very rarely even see an ad on any site that I visit regularly. This plugin has made it impossible for me to browse with IE, since I am now used to ad-less browsing. (I also use the Adblock Filterset.G Updater to regularly bring in a set of additional filters.)

Linkification – Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

BugMeNot – The site for this is down at the moment, but this just populates login/password fields with information from bugmenot.com on command. Very useful for reading newspapers that require annoying registration.

Signature – Let’s me insert things like this:

Chris McLaren
PHILOSOPHER, SCIENTIST, FOOL
Did you travel deeply through inner space and end up feeling like you had a vibrating robot head that was receiving messages from Jesus and his chattering gnomes?
If so, you may have succeeded.
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into any place where I need it.

Spellbound – If I remembered to use this more, my posts would need a lot less editing.

Omea Connector – Integrates Firefox with my information management tool (read “RSS Reader”)

Flashblock – Sometimes you can’t use Adblock to stop something from loading at all. This plugin makes all Flash content wait for you to click it before it loads. This is my second favourite plugin, and is part of the reason I literally can not use IE anymore.

Linky – This is really the “select a section of one page with a bunch of links, and open them all in tabs” plugin for me, although it can actually do a lot more than that. I do also sometimes use the “open all image links in one tab” feature when I’m looking at a gallery of thumbnails.

Copy Plain Text – Because sometimes I don’t want formatting in the text on my clipboard.

I also often have GreaseMonkey installed, although not right now.

Is there anything you have that I don’t, but that I need? What am I missing?