The best Firefox Extensions out there, right here.
This isn’t the usual list of extensions that everyone is used to using, but 10 add-ons that many may not know about, but can be very useful for everyday web browsing.
1. PicLens
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. Makes browsing through pictures a wonderful experience. The interactive 3D Wall and built-in search function, lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an amazing viewing experience.
2. Snap Links
You know the times where you have been trying to find something through a search engine, but you have to go through every link one by one in order to find it? All of us have been there, but now with just one click you can open multiple searches with Snap Links. Snap Links allows users to easily open multiple links in new tabs by drawing a box around them.
3. Tab Scope
With Tab Scope you can hover over a tab to get an instant preview of the web page. The cool thing is you have real time navigation, zoom, and you can even click on links without having to switch tabs.
4. Reminder Fox
This is for those who spend hours on Firefox, including myself. Reminder Fox is an extension that displays and manages to do’s. It can set reminders and alert you at the appropriate moment.
5. Download Statusbar
You can view and manage downloads in a small status bar in the corner of the screen, without having that download window get in your way.
6. HyperWords
This add-on makes every word interactive by adding a very handy options menu when you hover over it. Just think, you are viewing a map, and you hover over a location name and you get the option to locate it, search it, or get any information you want on it. Possibilities are endless!
7. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
If you’re like me and use Firefox on multiple computers, you’ll want Foxmarks. All you have to do is install Foxmarks on each computer and without you knowing, it will synchronize your bookmarks for you. You can also log onto my.foxmarks.com to have access to your bookmarks where ever you go.
8. Tab Effect
It adds a nice effect to Firefox by simulating a 3D cube being turned when switching through tabs.
9. Cooliris Previews
Cooliris Preview allows you to surf through the web faster by giving you a small preview of the website, without you even having to click on it. Just imagine, surfing without wasting time by clicking on links and coming to realize that it wasn’t even close to what you were looking for. All you have to do is just mouse over any link, and the Cooliris preview window immediately appears in order to show you the content.
10. StumbleUpon
This is by far the best add-on out there. It discovers websites based on your interests, and learns what you like. A fair warning to those that want to download this, it’s so great that you will find yourself spending more time than you thought possible surfing around the web. It basically feels like the first time you got high speed internet.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
i use a few of these and from now on will use a few more, nice article
March 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I have to say great info for Firefox users. I had no idea there were so many useful downloads that can make your web browsing even more enjoyable. I downloaded almost all of them and I have to say that its going to be tough leaving my computer, now that I have the Stumble Upon extension installed. Thanks
March 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
my friend lane is an incredibly gifted surfer dude – not like surfing on the ocean – though he probably could do that because he is so skilled – but rather a surfer dude as in the internet. he is a master at it and he highly recommended this cool article and i am happy he did! he surfs the internet like i fish the lakes.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Cool!
March 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Firefox really does have some great extensions!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Very cool man! i love firefox just because of these reasons
March 10th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
i’m tempted to use the Tab Scope but how much memory will it consume?
March 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I have it installed on a few computers, including an old p4 processor and I have to say you can’t even notice a difference. It pops up right when you put your cursor on the tab, and you can even change the speed in order to give it a little delay.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Granted, a couple of these MAY be useful, but most are just conceptual. I doubt I’d really need them in day to day browsing – some of them can actually become a nuisance on occasion.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:13 am
What about AdBlock Plus!!! Its AWESOME
March 11th, 2008 at 4:20 am
thanks few are new to me..will try them now
March 11th, 2008 at 4:29 am
the sad thing is i know all those exts and i have all those exts.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Very impressive post. I’ve tried 5 from the list and while I ended up unloading one, there are a few gems here. Very impressed by Hyperwords & Tabscope in particular.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I’ll like to add the Firebug and the web developer for work.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:37 am
You should really state whether it’s Windows-only on those that apply. For example, Tab Effect.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Tab Effect… requires DirectX 8.0…
There are still web developers who use Windows???
March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 am
PicLens doesn’t work on Linux.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Somebody slap Jesse from comment number 3.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:02 am
My aunt has firefox and enjoys it.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Yeah, this list is good for all the aunts. Nice article to get digged. But been there, done that kinda list.
Go here for a better list! http://xploreweb.blogspot.com/
March 11th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Real nice article. Yeah, Firefox extensions are really cool. I love the one that helps me download cool videos online.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Cooliris is nothing short of annoying.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:18 am
The link is http://xploreweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power.html
March 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I was browsing through the Firefox extensions a few days ago and came across the ones you have listed here. I wasn’t sure what some of them were for but, after reading your article I know which ones I want to use.
Great article!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I love Firefox but it uses so much memory. Does anyone else have this problem?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I know nothing of their stuff, maybe great.. but am I the only one feeling like they’re being stabbed in the eye with a PicLens boost every time I visit a new blog?
Or maybe I’m just late getting to this meme? Yay plugins.. best plugin ever (for me) would have to be the firebug plugin. Every day it makes my life a little easier. And OK, I’m going to try out this PicLens thing.. but if it doesn’t increase my joy at least 15%.. ooh.. /me waves finger ominously.
Cheers
March 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am
What version of firefox are you running?
No script and the various firefox betas do an awful lot to decrease the memory footprint. No script is also pretty great if you care about your privacy and are lazy(like me).
March 11th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Thanks!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Great compilation, well-illustrated with screenshots! I discovered PicLens recently and I agree, what a fun and rewarding way to visually browse the web!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I used download status bar and i am very satisfied with it.
After i read your post i installed tab scope+tab effect, just from pure curiosity.
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
StumbleUpon and Hyperwords are practically useless, strictly only for those who think the web isn’t cluttered enough. The world would be better if they were wiped.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
What about an extension that stops FF from crashing on my Mac?
I’ve had to go back to Safari because FF crashes so much!
March 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
great article
March 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Are you serious that you didn’t know there were extension for firefox. ffs
March 11th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
meh.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Thank you! What a great article. I am glad Digg is around so that I could find this post. I have seen others, but the seem to focus on more technical fare.
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
For bookmarks (and other stuff as well), I use Google Browser Sync. It’s pretty nice. Just throwing another one into the fray.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I really like Jeteye as a bookmarking service. The extension for Firefox is great and I much prefer all my stuff on their server than worry about syncing bookmarks to each of my computers. It does more than just links, you can save mark images as well as drag and drop snippets of text.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
IE tab is nice
March 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
What about “Save Image In Folder 1.2″
Speeds up photo saving!!!!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Actually, I do know about these, and so do most other people. Many of them are among the most popular extensions for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all/sort:popular
March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
One extensions that I have yet to see is something that can save a whole web browsing session tabs and everything.. Similar to when firefox crashes and asks to “Restore Session” and all the webpages (tabs) that were previously loaded reloads. If there is such a thing, please let me know.. If not.. I hope a developer reads this…. Cheers!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
greasmonkey is good too
March 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Meh, Color Picker and Firebug are all you need.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Super DragAndGo
The best one of them all
March 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
#52, here are two addons that can do that for you, I personally use Session Manager
Tab Mix Plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
Session Manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324
March 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Excellent article with loads of useful FireFox tips. I’ll pass this along to my friends’ networks.
Nelson Doyle
March 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
here are some little known FF security extensions that I use daily
FIREFOX SECURITY EXTENSIONS
Dr.Web anti-virus link checker :: Firefox Add-ons –
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/938
LinkChecker :: Firefox Add-ons –
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/532
Finjan
http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/
BlockSite :: Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145
March 11th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I already have about 10-15 add-ons, they’re a joy, yet I only had one of these.
That’s about to change.
Excellent compilation.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
StumbleUpon,Foxmarks, Bookmark Synchronizer, Cooliris Previews & Download Statusbar are all on the mozilla recommended add-on page.
So they’re hardly Extensions That You Probably Dont Know About
March 11th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Opera has some of that stuff built into it. I prefer Opera’s interface too. It has better features.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Opera has some of that stuff built into it. I prefer Opera’s interface too. It has better features.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Very Helpful I downloaded a lot of them because I had no idea there were so many crazy extensions. great article.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Hyperwords is useless? That’s possibly the most ignorant statement I’ve ever seen.
Adblock plus, tab mix plus, mr. tech’s local install and hyperwords are the 4 extensions I would not do without.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I assume many of you have already seen Zotero. If not, and if you do anything that requires organizing information and references (for instance, if you’re a student or a professor), then get it.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:20 am
dahh where have you all been
March 12th, 2008 at 1:26 am
for the occasional browser using firefox, the recommended are adblock, flashblock, noscript, and speed dial.
the rest are toys.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Worse than useless – it gets me interested in using something that would help, but doesn’t give a link to get to it.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Try clicking the picture my brother, the link is embedded in the pic
cheers
March 12th, 2008 at 2:29 am
This is actually a legitimate list, thanks for compiling these
March 12th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Some of the add-ons don’t work for FF 2.0.0.12, others don’t have any FF3 versions in beta.
Otherwise, not a bad list. BTW, download status bar is included in FF3.
Tab Scope, don’t really see the point in that one really.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Here’s one I like Session manager (message #51 Josh should check it out to). Other than that a good list although some do become a bit of a pain in the butt after a while namely Cooliris, even so i,ve still had it installed for months.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Once again Firefox Raises the bar of internet surfing.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:38 am
A must have list of tools.
Thanks for composing such an awesome list of tools.
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March 12th, 2008 at 7:55 am
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March 12th, 2008 at 8:27 am
yeah opera has a better interface adn is less cpu intensive, adn has alot of this built in to liek speed dial, th emagic wand for pass words, but it dotn have pic lens sad to say.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:35 am
LiveJournal put something almost exactly like Cooliris on their site; it bugs the heck out of me and I took some extra time to figure out how to turn it off.
Some of these are good though, nice review of some of the lesser-known extensions. I’ve been using Download Statusbar for a while and like that. I may try some of these others once they get updated for Firefox 3, which I’m now running.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Wow, these are the most useLESS extensions I ever saw!
I have Delicious bookmarks, PDF Download and iMacros – these 3 make me REALLY more productive!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hi
Try i.EOS extension http://i.eos.pl/
March 12th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
My pick: AdBlock Plus, Firebug, SEO For Firefox, del.icio.us Bookmarks
March 12th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Bummer. Almost all of them are incompatible with v3 Beta of Firefox. I could never understand why Mozilla would work on an upgrade, yet it was just backward compatible with other add-ons.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
DO NOT!! I MEAN DO NOT INSTALL STUMBLE application
p.s. I havent sleep in 40 hours
so dont do it 4 real
March 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Good post, thanks!
March 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
yo dis is mad sick i love usin it
March 13th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I am actually using Firefox all day with Stumble Upon and that was so, so, so great…. More POWER your all Great Guys!!!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Dude i thank you a lot for letting me know all there extentions…. i never knew… the piclens thing was the best…
March 13th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I use Adblock Plus, Adblock Filterset G Updater, Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer, IE Tab, Map+, No Script, Statusbar Clock, StumbleUpon, Talkback, Update Notifier.
StumbleUpon. I’ve found some awesome sites using it. Its fun!
Update Notifier. Lets me know about updates on ALL my add-ons.
I found Cooliris annoying too and got rid of it.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I am surprised by so few comments about NoScript. While there may be users that never run across issues with scripts, NoScript does noticeably reduce the number of browser errors resulting from problem scripts and has reduced the number of security alerts I receive from Norton.
Another great add-on is the StopAutoplay. I hate when I’m doing browsing and suddenly get blasted by what somebody calls “music” but sounds like junk noise to me. Stop Autoplay makes it so I can choose whether or not media should play.
Between NoScript and StopAutoplay, my browsing experience is at least 80% more pleasant.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Its great thanks a lot but most of not compatible with Firefox 3b4.
plz provide a list that for 3b4.
thanks
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March 15th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
loving the 3d tabs effect and tab scope. Nice action.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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March 19th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Thanks for this
Check out my suggestions
http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-3-most-critical-firefox-extensions.html
http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/07/7-months-later-15-firefox-extensions-i.html
Worth also checking what the Firefox community at large reckons is their best add-ons:
http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/11/love-your-firefox-extensions-here-are.html
March 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Great finds! Have been using Download Statusbar for sometime now and I love it. Will add several of these listed.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
great extentions and great article
March 20th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
this is one of the best guides i have ever seen. Dude your awsome.
thx for the knowledge.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:12 am
For all of us using firefox 3, here’s a real neat trick…
NO EXTENSION NEEDED!
Highlight some text so it turns blue, then drag the highlighted text to the address bar or google search. If the text starts with http:// you will be taken there automatically. No need for URLink anymore with FF3!
March 21st, 2008 at 7:08 am
This is a great article but you didn’t add my favourite Firefox add on. Video DownloadHelper lets you download all the web links you are looking at to a file of your choice but the best thing of all is the ability to download videos from sites including youtube and many more. If theres a video on the web page, this programme will download it to your computer.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:11 am
Forgot to place the link for DownloadHelper:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
It really is the coolest thing ever ;0)
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 am
I’m gonna try out Snap Links. Great post!
April 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
For a moment I thought you said, “It basically feels like the first time you got high on speed internet.”
April 9th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Thanks for someone who is’nt all that computer literate this really helps to know that there is helppers out there.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I was browsing through the Firefox extensions a few days ago and came across the ones you have listed here. I wasn’t sure what some of them were for but, after reading your article I know which ones I want to use.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am
When I middle-click a click (open it in a new tab), the tab opens quicker than when I actually open a new blank tab with Ctrl+T. IE6 (Windows Live Toolbar) seems to be better although IE6 isn’t a tabbed-browsing enabled browser. Safari and Opera are the winners.
By the way, we also have Speed Dial for Firefox. Just Google for it. Thanks for telling us about the thumbnail tab preview, which is built-in in Opera 9. What else extensions will be there that utilize Opera integrated functions?
June 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am
http://www.colorgorize.com
July 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Know about all of them and already use most of them.
Some of them don’t work in FF3.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
With all of these Firefox Extensions, I’m surprised no one has mentioned FEBE 6.x (Get it through the developer’s Home Page — otherwise it won’t work with FF 3!). This Extension lets you back up your Firefox Extensions and settings to an external file. Great for restoring everything instead of going back and searching all over again.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
4chan extension + ReloadEvery + DownloadAll = WIN
September 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Is there a plugin which auto corrects text which I type in a text box in the browser? like the auto correct in word.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Dude, there are SO many people that know about stumble Upon, in fact, THAT’S HOW I FOUND THIS SITE!
October 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am
adblock plus just a memory hog,just download a host script and embed it in explorer shell (MVPS)-no add problems no more and no memory hog.
Try Tamper Data a great addon+informEnter oh and ie tab for the dinosaur sites that are too lazy to code there web sites for other browsers like firefox.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I went to look at this to see if I ddint have any. HAd them all. Thats how much of a firefox freak I am. Love it and great Addons.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
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November 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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November 22nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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