I just downloaded Firefox 3.5, and I already love it. I never made the switch to Chrome or Safari, partly out of inertia, but mostly because of the huge array of available add-ons. Since I haven’t done a list in a while, here’s my list of nerdery:

• Adblock plus. No more of those stupid dancing-woman ads for mortgages or shitty diploma mills.
• Better Gmail 2. This is one of my favorite add-ons. In addition to little things like highlighting the email you’ve moused over, it includes the truly outstanding Folders4Gmail, which allows you to create hierarchical (nested) labels. Doesn’t require a separate Greasemonkey install.
• Forecastfox. Since I’m on a PC at work, I don’t have a handy little weather widget. Or should I say… I didn’t, until I found this. Has options for multiple areas.
• Various PageRank checkers. I used Live PageRank, but they don’t have a version for FF3.5 yet. Currently using SearchStatus, which is more fully-featured.
• Ubiquity. Get this. I’m not even kidding. This is the first thing that gets added to any FF install. It’s a command-line type interface that lets you do just about anything you want, including:
  • Search Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, Google Maps, Flickr, Yelp, Weather.com, Yahoo (how far you’ve fallen, Yahoo), Amazon, and probably a bunch more.
  • Tweet, Digg, StumbleUpon or create TinyURLs.
  • Send email in Gmail. Yep. You can highlight some text on a page, or the url bar, then type ‘email this to martin’ and, hey presto, I just got some email.
  • Translate selections or pages.

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3. We got the chrome.