Here’s a list of my favourite Firefox Add-Ons.  I still haven’t bought into Google Chrome, part of my privacy drive where I think Google knows too much about me…

• Xmarks – Using this I synchronise my Firefox bookmarks between computers, it works well.  It does have an option to sync passwords as well, I don’t use that…
• Twitbin – Used to keep up to date with Twitter, can open and close in the sidebar
• Firebug – Handy for web development, you can look at the HTML, CSS etc of pages open in Firefox
• Morning Coffee – Tab management in Firefox is still not as good as SeaMonkey so I use this to fire up my favourite sites when Firefox starts
• Firefox Universal Uploader – Handy uploader for a number of common sites including Smugmug, flickr, Facebook etc

NewsFox – I used this in preference to Google Reader for reading my RSS feeds for a while.  If used with Xmarks (above) then you can sync your RSS feeds between computers, which is obviously quite handy.  However I’ve gone back to Google Reader again because of the number of Add-ons I was running in Firefox.

I started to find was that Firefox @ home kept on crashing, which I attributed to the number of Add-Ons I had.  This was especially true if I was running Newsfox as I didn’t delete old articles, this meant Firefox had to work hard to keep up.  So Newsfox is now gone.

I was even thinking of taking my email off the browser and going back to Thunderbird/Outlook.  I keep flirting with the idea it’s better to use the right app for the job, and maybe I should use a client for my email/calendar, instead of the browser.  In the past I avoided this because I would need to run different apps at home and work, but now that Thunderbird is a portableapp that not such a problem.  Certainly I’ve been frustrated with the response from Firefox, because I’ve too many windows open, if I used Thunderbird then that might help.  At home I’ve started using Tweetdeck again for my Twittetring as it’s better than browser based Tweeting for me, so is it time to move away from the browser for other stuff???