Well I decided to take a look at some of the latest Firefox extensions since I’m pretty much running a bare bones Firefox.  (What a waste).  I was looking through and there’s a lot of gimmcky ones, or gaudy ones.  But there’s a few non intrusive and functional ones.  I added a G-Mail notifier that just parks in the bottom right of the screen and checks my e-mail every 10 minutes.  That’s pretty handy.

One extension I knew about for a long time, but just never used for some reason.  Adblock Plus.  Like the name implies, it blocks ads.  I guess I just always assumed it wasn’t very effective.  I’d monkeyed around back in the day with block lists for ad servers, but they always seemed to slow surfing by causing timeout errors from the ad servers.  But Adblock works amazingly well.  Lots of websites, especially overly commercialized sites load noticably faster.  I can imagine it’d be even more noticable on a dial up connection.

So check it out!  And if you know of any other sweet extensions, let me know!