Browsing with Firefox is mostly about customization - addons allow easy changes to how the browser functions, ranging from photo walls to ad blocking to tablet features. All in all I’ve stuck with a core set of addons over the years, ones I would consider essential to browsing the internet. I’ll be listing those here.

Just before I do, a quick reminded; Wolfram Alpha is having a preview this Friday @ 7:00 PM CDT. I’d recommend checking it out. For those unaware, Wolfram Alpha is a knowledge search engine that can also perform calculations and display relative information. It can display graphs of population, retrieve information like the GDP of France, show molecular information for chemical compounds, etc. Unfortunately there haven’t been any more off-the-wall searches publicized but I’m sure they’ll be brought up this Friday.

Without further ado, the list:

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