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21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009
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Firefox was the fastest growing popular web browser in 2008 and its chances are bright to be fastest growing web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox, we also featured them before and there demands are increasing every day. In this post, I am listing down 21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009.
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Get Xoopit to Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.
Inquisitor speeds up your searches like no other. Start typing and websites appear instantly, along with suggestions to help refine your search. Inquisitor understands you, learning and tailoring your results as you search more.
This extension enables you to hide the navigation bar through a toggle button. Currently the toggle button is the F2 key. You can change the key in the extensions options, as well as configure whether you want the Navigation Bar to be displayed on an initial Firefox launch. Also allows you to enable an Auto-Hide mode if you wish to use that instead.
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.
Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab.
This will Provides a button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote. It can works on Windows, Mac & Linux.
Glubble evolves the web from a personal activity into a fun experience for the whole family. Parents and children connect, play, discover and learn through fun activities. A family page, games, chat, surfing, play art, educational exercises and more.
You can easily select, tag, title and upload pictures from your computer to an online photo service. It will works with Flickr, Tabblo, 23hq, SmugMug, Marela, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Pixelpipe, and Zooomr.
Cooliris (formerly PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. Their unique “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly zoom your way around thousands items on a single, ever-expansive wall. It’s the fastest way to search and enjoy Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, and hundreds of other sites.
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.
Fast Dial replaces blank tabs with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Fast Dial bookmarks are stored as Firefox bookmarks. Thus it’s possible to manage Fast Dial bookmarks using Firefox Bookmark Manager and Bookmark Sidebar.
Yoono simplifies your social life on the web by centralizing all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use browser sidebar. Get all your friend updates automatically wherever you are on the web and update your status instantly across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more.
If you use sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Gmail, Twitter you’ll want Shareaholic. Winner of the Extend Firefox contest, Shareaholic enables you to quickly, and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites — such as Digg, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and many many others.
The best security you can get in a web browser.It allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager. It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.
Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including displaying Flickr photo and YouTube videos. TinyURL links are also unwound to show the destination page title. Finally, any additional social information (blogs, photos, etc.) that match for the Twitter user are displayed in a news feed in the side bar of the Twitter page.
Toggle Firefox’s built-in private browsing mode with a toolbar or status bar button. You can also toggle Firefox to auto-start in private browsing mode.
OutWit Images allows users to quickly navigate through Web pages and search engine results to harvest countless images automatically or manually. It is a free Firefox 3 add-on compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. OutWit Images distinguishes itself by allowing users to easily save the pictures onto their hard disk while they browse through the results.
Juice by Linkool Labs is an intelligent discovery engine that integrates seamlessly with your browser. Highlight and move a chunk of text, and Juice directly delivers a set of rich, relevant content (e.g. news, blog posts, photos, videos etc.) to a sidebar area of your browser. You can bookmark and organize your content for current or time-shifted consumption.
TooManyTabs allows you to store up to over 50 tabs in multiple extra rows in your browser by a simple click. It saves your browser’s space and memory as idle tabs are put aside. The extra rows also help to better prioritize and visualize your tabs.
Sxipper makes interacting with the Web simpler by keeping track of an unlimited number of usernames, passwords and personal information such as name, address, phone numbers, etc. Presented as you need it, Sxipper securely stores this personal data on your computer.
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Comments
I’ve used all of these addons at one point or another and can honestly say that none of them are a must have, nix Sxipper. That one can be a lifesaver. But the rest are useless hogs of memory.
As a side note, I like the look of the blog, did you code the the theme yourself?
Its foolish to say that there are 21 “must have” extensions for your browser. Simply having all those extensions running on firefox would put memory usage through the roof. A few of those extensions (like fast dial) already do that on their own. Imagine what would happen if you multiplied that by 21?
When it comes down to it, there are really only 3 extensions that are a “must have” to improve your web browsing and improve your experience with firefox and teh internets.
1) Adblock. Takes care of any ads on any webpage. If it misses one (or if you see a pic you don’t like), just righ click and block it. Greatest extension ever.
2) Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer. Aside from being a handy tool to back up all your bookmarks, it also allows you to use multiple computers (mainly your work and home) but access the same set of bookmarks. Makes life a heck of a lot simpler if you use more than one computer on a regular basis.
3) Tab Mix Plus. Essentially, TMP allows you to basically do anything you want with tabs. My favorite features: a drop down list of your last 10 closed tabs as well as the duplicate tab tool.
i would like to see the add on where you press the button and the pc gets a beer out of the fridge for you 
Though I haven’t tried Foxmarks in order to manage my bookmarks I wouldn’t change Delicious. I think Delicious does the job just fine, it has worked for me.
Thank you anyway for letting us know about these extensions, some are new for me.
I found an added Foxmarks a couple months ago via another Stumbleupon site. I never could get the hang of Delicious, mostly because I didn’t want my bookmarks on a website, I wanted them on my browser. I’ve had Firefox randomly delete all my bookmarks before, so the back-up is nice. Also, it’s great for switching back and forth between laptops.
don’t forget the Torrent Finder Toolbar
http://torrent-finder.com/toolbar.php
Here I found 50 more useful extensions you might like
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power-surfing/
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Shameless plug, but I’d love it if you could take a look at Youlicit – http://www.youlicit.com/download/
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i think mouse gestures or “all in one” should be in this list, its just so usefull, nice list by the way
I must partial agree with Sam. There are almost too many add-ons, and if you get too cute with them your browser comes to a halt. That being said, I’ll go on record saying there are 3 that everyone has – Ad-Block, Foxmarks, and of course Stumbleupon. I think most people can get along with the standard Firefox tab tools.
I’d be interested in knowing how many people have all three of these add-ons. I’d venture to guess that most avid surfers have them all.
Unrelated to this post, there is also a beta for foxmarks for IE that appears to sync up IE bookmarks as well.
Nice post though. I think these “best of” lists are very handy and informative.
Bland blog post. Hardly any that are actually any real use. These are my ‘must have’ add-ons:
Adblock Plus 1.0
Cooliris Previews
Download Statusbar
DownThemAll!
Fancy Numbered Tabs
Firefox Accessibility Extension
FireFTP
FireShot
Forecastfox
FoxTorrent
Html Validator
IE Tab
NoScript 1.8.8.5
PDF Download
Sort Bookmarks Menu
TinyUrl Creator
Web Developer
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I’ve been playing with Juice quite a bit recently and am really enjoying it. Cooliris is awesome by the way (although it did manage to crash occasionally).
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thanks for the post,
i also want to add pagerank plugin to this list.
it is very good plugin you see just the page rank down the right corner of browser
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I think you should remove Fast Dial and replace it with Speed Dial.
As of 2.15 and 2.16, the Fast Dial developer has lost all ethics. Read the 500+ comments on his addon and see his drop from 5 starts to 3 in a single day.
He changed peoples default search engine, added Marketing/spam bookmarks, moved peoples bookmarks around, and in some cases due to poor coding, deleted some of them.
Speed Dial provides all of the same function, without selling out. (I have nothing to do with Speed Dial)
It’s all relative. I’ll put together a list of the extensions I use.
http://frankkoehl.com/2008/09/my-firefox-extension-collection/
Note that I freely admit in the article that not every user will use every one. A lot of the social networking, IM, and image extensions are used mostly by web junkies.
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Private browsing is an in built option in Firefox 3.1. How will this add on Toggle private browsing be useful then?
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I totally love Cooliris. Its visually appealing. I liked a few others too. The top add-on on my list is Billeo. Cool features. Acts as a password manager, saves online receipts etc. Highly recommended.
http://www.billeo.com
Great post! Excellent. + mobile browsers http://browseport.blogspot.com
The new version of Firefox is seems to be fast and quick. But it have problems with addons. Some ad dons incompatible with it. I will surely check them also.
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Very cool app. Can you tell me where to download the Help files? Apparently they didn’t make it during the install process, so it won’t load them. Thanks!
.thank you,it is really pretty ,i like it abercrombie
CoolIris seems pretty cool… as does the photo display one. There are a TON of firefox “hacks” out there, but a few of these I’ve actually never seen before.
Thanks for the heads up!
WebRank Toolbar – Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast Rank 1.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52177/
A toolbar which will give you automatically website rank and pages indexed in various search engines. It is a tool for SEO and website analysis too. It includes:-
1. Google Pagerank
2. Alexa Rank
3. Compete Rank
4. Quantcast Rank
5. Pages indexed in Google
6. Pages indexed in Bing
7. Pages indexed in Yahoo
And click on each button to get more information about rank or pages indexed.
Thanks for linking to Yoono. The friends widget is really popular. If you have any feedback about the product just let me know.