One of the biggest things keeping me from trying out Firefox 3 Beta was the lack of support by my addons…but I bit the bullet and did it anyways. I heard about this LifeHacker article today and this Nightly Tester Tools addon that lets you make (most of) your extensions compatible with Firefox 3. Basically it adds a “Make all compatible” button to your addons window:

Look at all those sad exclamation points! :( Just click on “Make all compatible” and say OK to this message:

Then restart Firefox and it’ll bring you back to the Addons window where you can see your updated extensions:

Oh snap! Look at all those happy extensions! So of course, do this at your own risk, it could mess up Firefox, etc. etc. I’ve found it to be well worth it though! A word to the wise though: you should probably wait to make your old Themes compatible…trust me, it’s not pretty.

So, what extensions do I use, you ask? Let me list a few of my favorites…

• Adblock Plus - if you haven’t heard of this before, ouch.
• BugMeNot - puts a BugMeNot option in the menu when you right-click on a username/password field which populates them with any available u/p combinations
• del.icio.us - puts a button in the browser menu so you can quickly add a page to del.icio.us
• Download Statusbar - shows progress of your downloads
• Firebug - must have for web design!
• Greasemonkey - customize sites/pages with js scripts
• Link Alert - shows small icon on link hover to show the type of link it is (new window, pdf, js, ppt, etc)
• MeasureIt - lets you draw a rectangle overlay in the browser and says how many pixels wide/high it is (handy for web design)
• Stylish - customize sites/pages with css scripts
• View Source Chart - boxed, color-coded version of a page’s source code

What are you favorite addons? :

Update: I forgot about the awesome PicLens because I just have it on my work computer.  But it’ll change how you view pictures online!

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