here's what I wrote ten hours ago or so
I find mindself not bothering anymore with features. used to have extensions for mouse gestures, session remembering, different middle scrolling, full screen with auto-hiding of the toolbars and other things I don't even remember.
now I use plain firefox with only one extension, Plain Text Links (the most useful one, whenever there's a "unlinkinfied link" somewhere, I select it, right-click and do "open selected URL in tab"). would have "flash click to view" as well but as I'm on 56K now I didn't even bothered to download the flash plugin. another useful one is translation panel but I'm not fighting my way into german sites these days.
really, it's more simple. I don't need a hundred mouse gestures, scroll wheel in the tab area and add little buttons here, and sub menu here, and oh, look at that shiny panel.
all of that only to read text and write boring forum posts
ctrl-t, ctrl-w, ctrl-tab, ctrl-shit-tab and the mouse do it for me, I gave up having all those zillions of things.