I wanted to post about all the plugins that I find most useful. This is a changing list which I’ll have to refer to as I setup on new systems or update as I find more plugins. So here we go, by application:

Mozilla Firefox

Tab Mix Plus

I simply cannot use Firefox without this plugin. It adds much more control over the behaviour of your tabs, but among other things, it lets you scroll-wheel through your tabs. I got used to this in Konqueror and I can’t give it up. When your mouse is in the tab bar area, just scroll to flip through tabs.

Nagios Checker

If you use Nagios for system monitoring (which you really should), then you’ll want Nagios Checker which is a simple plugin which shows Nagios system status in your Firefox status box area. It’s very flexible allowing you to disregard alerts based on system outages, acknowledgements, etc.

Adblock Plus

This plugin will generally block all ads on all sites.

Mozilla Thunderbird

QuickText

Quicktext is most useful for short-hand email templates. I often use it to generate a couple different standard sigs, like on some emails I want my full business signature with contact information etc and other emails a personal sig or something abbreviated.

Google Contacts

This is a very useful plugin which creates an address book to sync your contacts to / from Google. The nice thing is that it will mostly configure itself. It will create address books for each account you have setup in Thunderbird which accesses Google’s servers.

Nostalgy

Adds a lot of keyboard shortcuts to Thunderbird. I like being able to type “cc” at the start of a recipient line to change the line from a To: line to a CC: line.

Mail Redirect

Allows you to bounce emails. Old-school email hack which basically just resends the original email but to the recipient of your choosing. Unlike forwarding where you are just sending a copy of the email, bounced emails show the original sender and recipient information. Very useful for quickly redirecting email to the correct person.

Wordpress

See also: Wordpress MU

OpenID Provider for WordPress MU

Turn your blog into an OpenID provider and use your own blog to login to other sites.

WP-Syntax

Add syntax highlighting to your blog posts. Essential for anyone who posts code snippets whether bash scripts or C programs.