When I was on Firefox: * adblock plus for obvious reasons. be sure to enable the easyprivacy list! * cookiemonster for extra privacy and fine-grained cookie control. * noscript to provide fine-grained script control. it speeds everything up and makes your browser more secure. * requestpolicy to block just about everything except what i actually want to see. it's essentially the noscript concept generalized to all external references. * https everywhere for, uh, https everywhere * pentadactyl for vim ui Now that I'm on dwb, equivalents of all of these are either built-in or provided by the developer, which is just as good with the combination of adblock, cookiemonster, noscript, and requestpolicy, my normal browsing mode is more private and secure than the default incognito mode. i recommend ghostery if you don't want to go quite this far.