post on hammering firefox<\/a>, I have been installing a mountain of extensions for Firefox. Unlike the guy who the original post was about, it wasnt the “top 100” I installed. I have spent most of the day trying out extensions to find good, useful ones which seem to have a decent purpose.<\/p>\nNow, needless to say, there has been a MASSIVE performance hit. At this time I only have 41 extensions installed but it is already taking a noticable amount of time for FF to actually start up. I have been ruthless with removing the toolbar’s some extensions like to install, but it has cost me about 1\/5th of the screen real estate – and to be honest, for some extensions why would you have them if you turned the tool bar off…..<\/p>\n
Anyway, on the positive side, it is pretty amazing that FF lets you bolt on so many different packages to generate the functionality you want. This really is a “good thing” from the open source movement. As it stands I cant see this level of customization being available for IE for quite some time.<\/p>\n
For the terminally curious, the extensions I have are: \n<\/p>\n