Another Firefox Convert

I have been happily using for more than a year the Maxthon browser and it made my browsing much more annoyance free. It is a great app with many capabilities built upon IE and offering many plugins. But the new Firefox 1.5 now has got to a point where I can find there all the things I liked about Maxthon and it has the advantage of not relying on IE (a big plus). Well, some goodies don't come out of the box, but after a search in the zillions of its extensions, I have equipped it with some essential, some handy and some interesting (but not heavily used) extensions.

The essential extensions

• FlashGot
• IE Tab
• SessionSaver

The handy extensions

• Adblock
• PDF Download
• Gmail Manager
• Yahoo Mail Notifier
• Mouse Gestures
• GreaseMonkey and scripts like Book Burro
• Tabbrowser Preferences
• Tab X
• DownThemAll

The interesting extensions

• StumbleUpon
• del.icio.us
• foXpose

In fact, I use Firefox mostly from home. I am a bit nostalgic about Maxthon at work and have not yet dropped it, but after I caught myself clicking Ctl+T to open new tab (as in Firefox) and got my browser windows tilted instead, it is a matter of days to be completely converted.