Firefox, the famous open source internet browser which is rapidly gaining users ever since its launch into the Internet Explorer dominated browser market. A check at our server logs shows that Firefox users are overshadowing the Internet Explorer users.
Being open source brings around much benefits to the end users. Things get fixed fast, you gain a large community of contributors which will help to contribute to your product in a way or the other. Firefox’s community of contributors populated the add-ons of Firefox with tons of applications that will enhance the users experience. From themes, extensions, you will have endless, massive add-on database at your disposal, for FREE!
While the database is that large, it isn’t practical for users to install all at once, and going one by one to try out is a tedious job. Therefore, reading this article will help you pick the right extension for your Firefox, saving you tons of time in trying the rest. Rest assured as these 15 extensions we picked are guaranteed to be useful to the end users, because we use it ourselves too!
Extensions we recommend to not in any sort of order:
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Fasterfox |
| Fasterfox is an extension which tweaks the configurations in Firefox by caching files and enable pipelining in Firefox. The standard Firefox requests datas one by one while Fasterfox tunes this by requesting the second data before the first one ends. It will also change the DNS cache timer for unnecessary DNS queries. In addition to this, page rendering time will be boosted. You can customize the settings of cache, DNS cache timer, number of max connections to be made by yourself.Get Fasterfox at extension here |
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Foxmarks |
| Foxmarks enables you to save all your bookmarks online in Foxmarks server. This way your bookmarks can be retrieved from any other computer around the world. The process of synchronizing your bookmarks with the server to update your computer’s boomarks is done automatically in the background. A great extension for those going mobile and using public computers.Get Foxmarks at extension here |
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IE Tab |
| While Firefox is good enough for you to completely eliminate the need to run Internet Explorer, some websites do not. Badly coded websites, especially those China websites are only suitable to be viewed in Internet Explorer. This extension created by a Taiwan programmer allows you to switch to Internet Explorer engine in Firefox, instantly.Get IE Tab at extension here |
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PDF Download |
| Let’s face a fact, PDF viewing directly from Firefox will often result in Firefox crashing. This extension will intercept any files pdf files requested and allows you to download it directly to your computer for reading in your standalone PDF reader.Get PDF Download extension here |
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Mega Upload SX |
| Mega Upload is file sharing site like Rapidshare. However, Mega Upload only allows limited connections to be requested from a country at anytime. This extension allows you to bypass that limitation and get your megaupload files instantly.Get Mega Upload SX extension here |
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DownThem All |
| DownThemAll is a must have for Firefox users. This extension can replace the download function in Firefox with further enhancement which makes it an essential extension. DownThemAll allows you to pause/resume the downloading of files. In addition to it, it has a feature of downloading files with more simultaneous connections. This feature is what makes DownThemAll can download files faster than the original download feature in Firefox, since the original download feature only sends a single request connection. DownThemAll has a feature of extracting the file links of a webpage and allows you to filter the files that you wish to download from a website.Get DownThemAll extension here |
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Download Status Bar |
| One of the annoying part of Firefox is the Download Window which pops up whenever you download a thing. Here’s where Download Status Bar comes in to help you and eliminates the Download Window. It replaces the Download Window and will show a download progress bar at the bottom of your Firefox while you are downloading files.Get Download Status Bar extension here |
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Colorful Tabs |
| Colorful Tabs will colorize your tabs. It might just be a User Interface extension, but it does help us out whenever we have lots of tabs opened at once. This minimizes our chance of selecting/closing wrong tabs. Think selecting a tab correctly with 20+ tabs opened.Get Colorful Tabs extension here |
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Wizz RSS Reader |
| Getting updated with latest news using RSS? Wizz RSS Reader is a Syndication application extension which allows you to save your RSS links and viewing it directly from Firefox. In addition to this, you can also save your RSS lists (OPML) in Wizz server.Get Wizz RSS Reader extension here |
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Download Helper |
| Download Helper is a little tool that helps to download video from video sharing websites like Youtube, Google Video, MySpace just to name a few. It an also download other files defined in the settings besides videos.Get Download Helper extension here |
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Gspace |
| Ever wonder what to do with the Gmail Space that you have (4.7GB and still growind daily)? Use it as your online storage with Gspace! Gspace will turn your Gmail account into your online storage. It allows you to listen to music and view pictures in your Gmail Space directly too.Get Gspace extension here |
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Meebo |
| Meebo extension for Firefox eliminates the need to run your favorite Instant Messenger anymore. What’s more, this extension sits right inside Firefox window and allows you to chat with your contacts from your Firefox. We have a post on Meebo for Firefox edition at here.Get Meebo extension here |
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Snap Shots |
| Snapshots is a useful extension which will pop up a small box showing you the webpage of a link whenever you hover your mouse over a link. It works by requesting the webpage in background. This extension allows you to preview a webpage of a link.Get Snap Shots extension here |
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Torbutton |
| Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser’s use of Tor. This allows you to surf the web safely through proxy by anonymizing your connection. It replaces the proxy feature in Firefox and completely proxify your internet connection of Firefox. If privacy is your concern, this extension is one that you should get.Get Torbutton extension here |
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Firefox Environment Backup Extension |
| With all the extensions enhancing your Firefox experience, you will need a extension to keep your settings and extensions should you need to reformat/reinstall your computer. Firefox Environment Backup Extension helps by backing up your user profiles, preference, history, bookmarks, passwords, cookies, phishing data, extensions and themes. Scheduling the backup process is also possible and it will be done automatically.Get Firefox Environment Backup Extension here |
These extensions will be able to let you to get the best out of your Firefox and are recommended by us. Do you use them?
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This entry was posted by Alvin Chan on 10 November 2007 at 2:54 pm under Software.
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Alvin,
I just came across your mention of our PDF Download add-on above and thought I’d contact you to see whether you’d be interested in participating in a private beta for the upcoming PDF Download 2.0. The program starts today and is limited to a small number of existing PDF Download users.
If this is of interest, please email me privately and I’ll send you info on PDF Download 2.0 and how you can get started with the beta.
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