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I wrote down my favourite Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons (or plug-ins). Some friends of mine asked me several times.. here is it..

Firefox

• Exif Viewer – shows EXIF data (such as camera model, focal length, ISO) about a photo without a need to save it and use an external application e.g. jhead.
• Flashblock – blocks Flash advertisements and other “important” features.
• FoxyProxy – very useful for using proxies and/or tor based on rules including securing also your DNS requests and not only the HTTP request part, e.g. use tor for google, proxy for NWS (not work safe ;) sites.
• FullerScreen – for really full screen browsing.
• GA? – a status bar icon that shows if the loaded page contains the Google Analytics code.
• GooglePreview – shows a page screenshot (thumbnail) and its popularity rank on a Google result page. It is comfortable if you are looking for a page that you visited and you only remember keywords (for Google) and how did it look like.
• Image Zoom – zoom in or zoom out photos or any pictures. Like for the Exif Viewer addon – no need to save and use an external application to zoom in/out the picture.
Link Alert – shows different cursors for specific links such as documents (doc, pdf), archives (zip), etc. Easy and fast check where does a link point without a need to analyse its URL in the status bar.
• Resizeable Textarea – resizing of a textarea, a lot of times needed on pages with tiny textareas – so simple, but so useful.
• Resurrect Pages – if the page is removed, the content is changed, but you are looking for the previous one, or simply the server is down, with this add-on you just choose a cache, that you would like to use (Google, Yahoo, The Internet Archive, etc.), to retrieve a cached version of the current page. Not always, but usually it works.
• Screengrab – screenshots of the whole page, visible part of the page or a selection to a file or the clipboard.
• Taboo – sometimes I have an interesting article, that I would like to read later in the evening, but I would not like to save it into my bookmarks. I use Taboo to store the tab URL, so it is not lost. It shows the stored tabs in a month view, so it is easy to see what did I store (and visit) on Wednesday two weeks ago.
• XPather – all you need for XPath in Firefox.

Thunderbird

• Attachment Sizes – shows the size of an attachment in the compose window.
• Colored Diffs – for developers, shows coloured diffs from CVS or SVN.
• Display Mail User Agent – shows an icon of an e-mail client of the received e-mail.
• Folderpane Tools – allows to change settings for the folder pane such as the order of folders.
• Image Zoom – like for Firefox. Very useful if someone sends photos with big or huge resolution to make them smaller without saving them (and using an external application).
• Lightning – a calender and a to-do list with a lot of nice features and views.
• Remember Mismatched Domains – if your e-mail server does not have a valid certificate and Thunderbird keeps asking, this helps.

Enjoy :)