I've been getting a lot of requests lately from people about the Firefox plugins I use on a day to day basis. While everyone's browser needs are different, there are a few indispensable plugins that I think many people could (and already) benefit from using. They are:

• Customize Google - Forces https for many Google pages, blocks some Google ads, streams search pages so you never have to click next (since no one ever does anyways), anonymizes your Google cookies, uses Google Suggest, and more.

• Google Preview - Gives a small thumbnail preview of each search result page, immensely useful to gauge things like layout and navigation on a page before you visit it, any to find pages that you may have visited before but don't remember the URL exactly but have an idea of what the site looks like.