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The more you use Firefox the more you love it. The more quality extensions you find and install the more functional, convenient and helpful Firefox becomes.

I was a latecomer to FireFox… I rebelled for a while and stuck with IE7. Firefox felt kind of rogue to me at first. It wasn’t until FireFox 2 that really made the full switch. The thing that really put the final nail in the IE coffin was finding some really useful extensions that made my online tasks easier.

Here’s a list of my top 10 favorite Firefox extensions… in mostly random order.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
This one is a must have for anyone who uses multiple computers. Install it on all of them and it’ll sync your bookmarks across them all. It also backs them up online so you can access them when you’re on someone else’s computer.

Better GMail 2
If you use GMail or Google Apps email (and you should be) then Better GMail 2 is also a must have. This extension gives your GMail interface more functionality and gives you more control over what buttons or modules you see. It also allows you to tweak the interface to your needs.

Hide Menubar
I don’t need the menu bar so why show it. If you do need all you have to do is press [Alt].

Colorful Tabs
Makes your tabs colorful. To me this just helps me visually separate them.

Delicious Bookmarks

I use delicious to for quick posting to this blog. If you use delicious you should have the bookmarklet.

Google Gears
Google Gears lets you store certain data locally which in turn allows webapps to perform faster. I use Gears for Wordpress and Google Reader mainly. It’s also compatible with Google Docs.

IE Tab
For the few sites left that don’t like IE7.

Picnik
Picnik is awesome for taking an image from the web and quickly letting you fancy it up with shadows, borders or effects. It’s an especially great blogging tool.

TwitterFox
TwitterFox is a lightweight little Twitter client that runs in your FireFox tray. New tweets pop up when they come in (configurable of course) and it also lets you tweet.

PDF Download
Gives you more control over what to do with PDF links: download, launch, print. Prevents PDF’s from crashing your browser session.

Let me know what extensions you use or which of these are your favorites.

Popular bookmarking site del.icio.us has updated their site to a sleeker version and also changed their name to delicious.com.  Doesn’t sound like a big deal right?  Might be for me.

I use delicious to bookmark sites and articles I think are noteworthy almost everyday.  While bookmarking still works for me looks like the Wordpress plugin (Postalicious) that automatically pulls my bookmarks out and makes a post here on my site (like this one from yesterday) has stopped working.  It’s generating an error now and won’t update.  I haven’t really looked into it too much but if it’s not broken I find it highly coincidental to be throwing errors on the day delicious did a major change.

If I’m lucky, it’ll just start working again… if not, I’ll have to wait for an update to the Postalicious plugin.  Lots of bloggers use this plugin so it shouldn’t be long before an update comes out.

Anyway, in the meantime, here’s a delicious video of the site redesign showing the transformation.

You can also see a list of all then new features on their site.

Is Postalicious broken for anyone else or is it just me?