Flashblock: keeps Flash animations from loading until you click on them, reducing page load times and bandwidth used, as well as preventing Flash-based attacks.
AdBlock Plus (with the EasyList (USA) subscription): keeps your browser from loading advertising images on web pages; this improves loading times, decreases bandwidth used, and prevents attacks embedded in ad images/animations.
NoScript: prevents scripts from running on web pages unless you allow them. Keeps your browsing activities from being reported to tracking services and prevents script-based attacks. It's easy to unblock trusted sites (like Facebook! Uh...).
Ghostery: shows/blocks web trackers on a page, which are used to gather behavioral data about users (i.e., track your behavior within and among web sites). Not so valuable if you're using NoScript (many trackers rely on scripting).
LinkExtend: has a lot of neat stuff in it's toolbar (and I usually _hate_ toolbars!), including "site safety" ratings, "child friendly" ratings, and a nice integrated multi-search feature. If you've ever wondered "Should I really be on this site?", this add-on will help.
RequestPolicy: For the really paranoid, this allows you to control what page elements are loaded from other web servers (ex., youarehere.com loads an image from server allyourcomputerarebelongtous.ru). Requires a little micromanagement, but gives fine-grain control over what page content is loaded and displayed by your browser.
You can dowload Firefox for free here: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
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