I spend an enormous amount of time with Google, and I spend it in Firefox. Fortunately, the two work well together for me. A combination of scripts and Add-ons make Google much better for me than it is out of the box. If you want to supercharge your own Google, and get rid of unnecessary nonsense, here's the combo that works for me:


  • CustomizeGoogle - Way too many options to wade through, but some of them are critical, including getting rid of all the damned ads (sorry, Google, but they're just noise to me) and rewriting image links to go to the images.

  • GooglePedia - A lot of time the info I'm after is in Wikipedia. This extension puts the best-guess Wikipedia article right on the search results page. Only useful if you have a fairly wide monitor.

  • No SearchWiki - Sorry again Google - the "SearchWiki" icons are not useful to me. This Greasemonkey script nukes them.

  • QuickDrag - Highlight any word or phrase and then give it a quick flick with the mouse to open it in a search tab.

  • Twitter Search Results on Google - If you don't want to wait for Google to build their own "real-time search" this GreaseMonkey script is a good start.