Recommended firefox plugins

Recommended firefox plugins

Firefox plugins which should be installed:

1. Ad block plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

   Helps in blocking adds. It also supports adding custom filters and option for exporting / importing filters.

2. Ghostery - http://www.ghostery.com/

   It prevents well known tracking websites from tracking user activities and co-relating different actions performed by same user on various websites.

3. Xmarks - http://download.xmarks.com/download

   It allows synchronization of bookmarks. Newer versions also support synchronization of passwords and tabs. We can open site http://www.xmarks.com/ from anywhere to access our bookmarks on other machines.

4. Better privacy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/

   Better privacy helps in clearing cookies saved by various sites that can be used to recognize same user.

5. Web of trust (WOT) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wot-safe-browsing-tool/

   It helps in giving reputation information about domains. We can also give our inputs for good / bad domains.

6. NoScript - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

   It helps in blocking javascript by default on all websites. We can enable scripts temporarily for a page or for a domain. We can also create permanent exceptions. It also disables scripts from internet pages from accessing intranet content (ABE).

   Considerable patience and practice is required to use NoScript. But privacy has a price. Noscript is also capable of saving configuration in form of bookmark. Hence using NoScript with XMarks allows synchronization of NoScript rules across machines seemlessly.

7. Refcontorl - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

   It helps in changing HTTP referrer value sent to many websites which help in discovering from where we clicked link to visit particular website. It disables tracking of how we go from one website to another.

   This would cause banking websites which are paranoid (as they should be) to stop working. Hence exception should be created for bank websites to work properly.

8. Disconnect - https://disconnect.me/

   Similar to ghostery. Installed for additional protection against giants like google, facebook and twitter

Other useful plugins

1. Tamperdata - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamper-data/

   This allow modifying HTTP post values and other heads for complete control on requests that go to web server. The plugin is probably buggy and interferes with normal login procedure on most websites.