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

Adblock Plus

[pne.livejournal.com]

What are its advantages over plain Adblock?

Does it work with the Filterset.G updater as well?

Re: Adblock Plus

[conuly]

For one, they're updating it, and I'm not sure they're updating Adblock anymore.

And yes, it does.

Re: Adblock Plus

[conuly]

Also, it fixes some flash-related glitches Adblock had. That's why I switched.

Everything else "better" is something subject to interpretation, so I won't list that.