Must Have Extensions for FireFox

For those with identity problem -
If you have multiple identities on the same site, this should be perfect for you:

Cookie Swap - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3255

For example, if you have 2 gmail accounts:

1. open gmail in a tab
2. sign in as abc.efg
3. Note the profile name on the bottom right corner of the firefox window e.g. "Profile 1"
4. Click on the "Profile 1", change it to something different, e.g. "Profile 2"
5. Sign in as uvw.xyz using profile 2

Note: this will only work if you are keeping cookies "until expire" under Firefox > Tools > Privacy > Option, it will not work if you are only keeping cookies "when I restart".

You are now set up to do the swap! Whenever you want to login as abc.efg, you click profile 1 on the bottomw right corner, profile 2 for loggin in as uvw.xyz. As you swap between the profile, the page will reload with the identity as defined.

To make your life easier, you can actually rename the profile:

1. left click on the "Profile 1" on the bottom right corner of the window
2. select manage profile
3. select the profile and click rename (opens in another window)
4. edit e.g. change "profile 1 to "abc.efg", "profile 2 to uvw.xyz"

Note that a change in profile will apply to all your tabs in all instances of firefox of the same profile. So if you are looking to set a profile against one tab instead of all of the tab, Cookie pie seem to do that trick, but that is not on the official add on page.


For those who cannot cope with Flashy pages -

Flash Block - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
This add on will not forbidden the flash, it will just replace them with a "play" button, so if you really want to see the flash, that's no hassel - just press play!
(thanks Matt for pointing me to that!)

For developers -

A must have for those who code websites, or for anyone who is pariticularly concerned about getting the placements of objects right in the page!
Firebug - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

A must have for the server developers, wanna know what is wrong in those request message headers?
Live Http Headers - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829