A list of absolutely essential Firefox add-ons.
The following Firefox add-ons are almost essential for your browsing experience to be the absolute best.
Download Statusbar
Keeps downloads in a neat little taskbar at the bottom of your browser instead of having to open multiple windows.
Cooliris Previews
Preview pages before you actually go onto them by hovering over the link and clicking the little cooliris logo.
Add To Search BarThis clever little add-on lets you add any search bar from any webpage by simply right clicking the bar.
Stumbleupon
Simply input your interests and any time you press the “stumble” this amazing thing comes up something that is almost guaranteed to be something you like. If you do like it then press “I like it” and if you’re not so keen you press “I don’t like it”. Every time you do this, Stumbleupon remembers what you liked and brings up things that are related to them.
FoxyTunes
Sits at the bottom left hand corner of your browser and allows you to pause, play, fast forward, rewind and adjust the volume of your music playing in a variety of players.
Piclens
Works with Google and a lots of other image search engines etc. Just click the piclens logo on one of the pictures and you almost instantly get a slide show of the full size images.
Dictionary
Kind of explains itself. Spell checks what you type.
Adblock Plus
A very simple and easy to use add-on for blocking annoying adverts that make web pages take ages to load. Simply right click the add, click Adblock image and there you have it! An ad free page.
Shareaholic
A great all in one add-on for sharing pages on sites like dig and del-icio-us.
Mouse Gestures
Allows you to do commands like back, forward, new tab etc. by simply very quickly by drawing logical gestures on top of the browser.













January 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
cool man