Upgrading Firefox

[pne]

At work, I recently upgraded Firefox from 1.0.8 to 1.5, and it went pretty smoothly—recognised all my extensions, my saved passwords, my bookmarks, etc.

At home, I still had 0.8 running. This morning, Gmail started hanging on me and I thought this might be a sign to upgrade. Download, install, run—oops, looks as if it's never heard of my previous installation. Bummer.

So I guess I'll be copying over settings and bookmarks over the weekend, as well as installing extensions and perhaps visiting a few sites I go to regularly so that it'll pick up the passwords and cookies.

On the other hand, this might be a good time to start afresh. Does anyone have any favourite Firefox extensions they can recommend to me? What's their name, what do they do, where do you get them from?

Comments

[pthalo]

reloadevery - useful if you play certain games (neopets) and need to reload a page every 5 seconds or every 45 minutes or whatever
sessionsaver - saves your session, so you can leave all sorts of browser windows open
sztakidict - english hungarian translation (highlight a word, right mouse click, translate), probably not as useful for you as it is for me, can't get it through mozilla.org, have to get it through dict.sztaki.hu
adblock - blocks ads
targetalert - when you mouseover a link it shows a little picture that tells you if it's a pdf, a sound file, a link to another site, or a whole bunch of other things. you can set it so it always appends an image, so you don't have to mouseover it
supert - gives lots of options for tab browsing, like displaying them in rows
colorful tabs - colors all of your tabs, which can make it easier to find the one you're looking for if you have lots of browser windows open