Best Firefox Extensions
This is an attempt to list the best extensions for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Extensions are mostly available from update.mozilla.org.
Killer
- AdBlock makes a huge difference after only minimal set up.
- All-in-One Gestures provides a heap of useful gestures.
- Web Developer as the name suggests, not much good if u are not a web developer.
Highly Recommended
- Download Status Bar instead of a window, tidily shows downloads in a bar just above the status bar.
- Tabbrowser Preferences in particular, the option to force the shell to open tabs rather than windows.
- Super Drag&Go drag any text to go to that URL or google that text; drag an image to save it.
- Linky open all selected links in tabs, open all linked images in tabs, etc.
- FastDic / DictionarySearch / Dict high-speed dictionary lookup (u can usually add in google, acronymfinder, etc).
- Copy URL + gets the page title, URL and quotation all at once.
- Text Link / Linkification convert plain text URLs into clickable links (linkification seems to suck performance when on by default).
Bolt-on Apps
- FireFTP a reasonably good FTP client.
- ChatZilla a lightweight IRC client.
- Sage an RSS reader.
- QuickNote a sort of integrated notepad, handy autosaving and autocopypasting.
- Mozilla Calendar a calendar.
Also Recommended
- MiniT allows drag and drop tab rearrangement.
- undoclosetab speaks for itself.
- TargetAlert puts an icon next to links that open PDFs, Word, mailto, new windows etc.
- Gmail Notifier displays your new Gmail count in the status bar, one-click access to your inbox.
- FlashBlock replaces flash objects with an 'activate' button.
- GooglePreview shows a thumb-shot page preview by each google result.
- FoxyTunes allows control of winamp (and many others) from within Firefox.
- Download Manager Tweak makes the default download manager a lot better.
- Spellbound a spell checker.
- BugMeNot provides logins to free-register sites like NYTimes.
- Session Saver Remembers tabs/history when Firefox is closed/crashes, then restores them on restart.
- IEview opens pages in IE - good for IE-only pages, particularly useful for web developers for testing.
- Paste and Go go straight to a URL from the clipboard.
- Stop-or-Reload Button fuses the stop and reload buttons into one, a la safari.
- Menu Editor allows full customisation of the right-click context menu.
- BBcode handy formatting if u use a phpBB forum.
- Show Failed URL displays failed URLs in the Location Bar when XUL error pages are enabled.
- Nuke Anything feel the power.
- HTMLtidy Validator handy validator program, integrates with View Source.
- down Them all / Magpie bulk saving images, etc.
- mozFBRH adds middle-click to things like the back button.