== My current set of essential extensions for Firefox profiles

For [[reasons beyond the scope of this entry
https://twitter.com/thatcks/status/755918762772144128]], I recently
set up a new Firefox profile. As a new profile it needs to be (re)
customized for my preferences, including extensions. I can't just
use [[my regular browser's set of extensions Firefox37Extensions]]
because this profile is for staying logged in to Twitter and needs
to be set up so that Twitter is usable. Also, I don't want to spend
a lot of time maintaining it, because I'm only going to use it once
in a while.

Since there may be more single-use profiles like this in my future,
I'm writing down my current set of essential Firefox extensions for
this sort of environment. They are:

* [[FireGestures
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegestures/]]
  is just as essential here as it is in my regular browser. Its
  various gestures are part of my automatic reflexes by now and
  it's disconcerting to be in [[a browser environment that doesn't
  support them ChromeWhyNot]].

* [[uBlock Origin
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/]]
  is a painless way to keep the tracking and advertisement and other
  invasions of my privacy down to a dull roar. A great benefit is
  that it basically needs no maintenance, so I can just ignore that
  I have it installed.

* [[Self-Destructing Cookies
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/]]
  is a painless way to clean out [[the underbrush of invasive third
  party cookies FirefoxSDCookieUsage]] that I'm probably slowly
  picking up every so often (partly from following the odd link
  from Twitter to elsewhere). I allow Twitter's cookies to persist
  so that I stay logged in, and everything else gets quietly junked.

  (In general SDC is good for any low usage or specialized profile
  where I want to use [[the low friction model of cookie handling
  FirefoxTwoCookieModels]].)

Although I've considered it, I'm not currently using [[NoScript
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/]] in this
profile.  In theory NoScript shouldn't be blocking anything because
I only use this profile on Twitter and I'd have to whitelist Twitter's
JavaScript; in practice, it's likely to need at least periodic
attention to whitelist some new domain that now has JavaScript
that's necessary to keep Twitter working.

(If I follow links from Twitter to other sites in this profile, I
may regret this choice. But I generally don't do that, since I read
Twitter almost entirely through [[choqok http://choqok.gnufolks.org/]]
and choqok is set to open links in my regular browser session.)

A number of [[my regular extensions Firefox37Extensions]] are okay
here and potentially useful, but aren't compelling enough to bother
installing in a new profile that I'm using this way. Part of this
is that Twitter allows you to control video autoplay in your settings,
so I have it turned off; if that changed, [[FlashStopper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashstopper/]] or
some equivalent might become important.

(Things would be a bit different if you could build bundles of
extensions and extension preferences that would all install together.
Then I'd probably roll in more of my standard extensions, because
each additional extension wouldn't be a little additional drip of
hassle to get and customize.)