Alphecca

You shouldn't ever feel the need to apologize for too many posts.

A good list here

lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/a-list-of-over-100-best-firefox-extensions.html

My favorites:

FoxyTunes: Control your media player from Firefox. Also has an alarm function.

Adblock: A must-have, especially for those of us stuck with dial-up.

Read Easily: Gets rid of weird formatting. Turns hard-to-read font/background combos into plain black on white.

Copy Plain Text: Gives you the option of copying and pasting text without formatting.

DownThemAll!: Download all the links or pictures on a page(or just the ones you want) with only a couple of clicks. Another great one for dial-up users- if you come to a page with lots of pictures that you want, but you know it will take so long to load that it will timeout, just use this. Also has a queue function, so you can download things later, when you're not actively browsing.

If you get no other plug-ins get Adblock or Adblock Plus. The original Adblock still works great but is no longer being updated (last I read anyway).

Adblock Plus URL:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/

Some of the ones with dictionaries, translaters, extra buttons, etc are handy.

I use quite a few extensions (I assume that's what you mean by "add-ons"), and there are even more that I've installed in the past and never/seldom used, so I've uninstalled them. Here are my favorites:

AI Roboform Toolbar - Only useful to me because I use Roboform to store all my passwords. An excellent tool, which I highly recommend, despite the fact that the full-featured version is not free.

UndoCloseTab - I guess I've got lousy aim with a mouse (thank God I'm better with firearms!), but I often close a Firefox tab unintentionally. When that happens, this extension is invaluable.

IE View Lite - Some sites just don't play well in Firefox (and that's usually not due to a shortcoming in Firefox), so this extension makes it easy to open a link in IE instead of Firefox.

Paste and Go - I had it in my mind that Firefox provides this capability natively, but I see that I have this extension installed. Using this, I can copy a URL, right-click on Firefox's address field and select "Paste and go" from the pop-up menu, saving me one more click or pressing . Hey it's not much, but I'm nothing if not true to my lazy nature.

MR Tech Local Install - This one is a little geeky, and has lots of capabilities, but the main reason I installed it is that it automagically saves extensions when they're installed or updated. This way, I've always got a copy of the XPI file for my extensions, so I can easily reinstall them when necessary (doesn't happen often, but really annoys me when it does).

adblock. it's a life-saver.

bog-standard URL-blocking adblock works decently right out of the box; editing the blocked URLs to add wildcards lets you shorten the list of blocked junk a lot; and if you're geeky enough to grok regular expressions, you can work downright miracles with those in there. (surround a pattern with forward slashes to make it a regexp.)

seriously, it's been a couple years now i've been using it, and i rarely see more than a handful of ads a month. none of which i ever need see more than once.

AspellFox - a spellchecker extension, for forms and things, when you remember to use it! ;-)

Likewise, just shifted to fire fox. The browser is definitely handy. Maybe it is also time for me to try those plug-ins.

there are three that I can't live without
1. adblock (self explanatory)
2. adblock filterset updater (automatically updates from a centralized database lists of ads to block, saves you the trouble of manual blocking)
3. forecastfox (adds a weather forecast information to the title bar, or status bar of your browser, pulled automatically from accuweather)

So have you given Thunderbird a look? It should run on your G3

Get the bug-me-not extension, for sure.

Yes, Zendo, as I said in the previous post about all of this, I'm now using Thunderbird for email. It works just like my old Netscape email client which is fine with me.

I can't beleive no one has suggested TabMix Plus! Undo close tabs, set behaviors, whether or not you want a close button on every tab, or just at the far right of the tab bar, etc. It also has a session restore feature for when Windows crashes and you need to open all the tabs you had open when it did. Or when you need to, for some reason, close a bunch of tabs all at once... and open them again later....

Also, AddBookmarkHere is a necessity to me (it lets you hit one of your bookmark folders and add the bookmark right there, without having to dig through that dropdown menu thing).

And, last, I like IETab, for when a page is slightly broken (due to shitty coding practices) in Firefox, but looks right in IE. It lets you open just one tab in your firefox window with the ie engine! Sweet hack.

Interestingly, some major global commercial publishers had promised to offer access to countries having less than $1000 per capita incomes. But they went back on their word, on the plea that they enjoyed sizeable subscriptions in India.
So, will this solve the dilemma of having so much science, and yet so little of it -- for a world which is "developing" but where the gap is simply growing?