100 Top Best Firefox Extensions: Use them & Experience the difference

Posted on 6 Mar, 2009 by Scott under Internet

10 Top Best Firefox Extensions

Today, Firefox is the leader in browsers, as it is faster and more secure than what others are. Again, you can easily customize this browser to make it perform just the way you want it two. You can find innumerable add-ons and themes, which can be used for personalizing the look and feel of this already impressive browser.

Whether it’s personal or professional work, you can choose from the list of 100 Top Best Firefox Extensions and make your browser deliver performance like never before. If you’ve been satisfied with the classic Firefox, wait till you get your hands on some of its super cool extensions, which include FasterFox, SessionSaver, TimeTracker, CookieSwap, IE Tab, ScrapBook, Download Manager Tweak, TabScope, Tab Mix Plus and ColorfulTabs. Checkout the list below:

Colorful Tabs

The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Flock version available at http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-flock/. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Viamatic foXpose

Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.

Undo Closed Tabs

Tired of going to History -> Recently Closed Tabs just to undo a closed tab? Then this extension is for you! This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.

FlashGot

Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

Open IT Online

Open IT Online allows you to open your documents and images online without the need of any software to be installed. It supports Google Docs, Google Apps, Zoho, ThinkFree, Vuzit to edit/view documents and Snipshot, Bilder Editieren, Picnik, Pixlr to edit/view images.

GreaseMonkey

IAllows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Image Zoom

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen.

Fasterfox

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

FirefoxView

Open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet.

Paste and Go

Paste and Go 2 lets you Paste Text and Load/Search It Immediately.

Hyperwords

Select any text on any web page and choose from powerful commands.

Taboo

The cure for tabitis If you keep tons of tabs open because you want to continue reading them later, Taboo is for you. Taboo lets you save a page for later (taking a screenshot, and using the Session Saver code to remember scroll location and form fields).

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.

Firefox Showcase

Easily find and manage your browser tabs.

Separe

Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab.

Permatabs

Turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs. PermaTabs can’t be closed accidentally no matter what you click (even actions like “Close other tabs” will not affect them) and will stick around between sessions.

FaviconizeTab

This extension adds a new “FaviconizeTab” option to the context menu of the tab.

BugMeNot

Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com.

Extended Statusbar

A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size (similar to Opera’s one)

Adblock Plus

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

PDF Download

Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control of them and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.

ScrapBook

Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.

IE Tab

IE Tab – an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

DownThemAll!

The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox.

Video DownloadHelper

The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

TargetAlert

Provides a visual cue for the destination of a hyperlink by appending a link with an icon that shows what type of file it leads to, or the effects it may have, such as opening a new window or leaving a secure site.

Download Manager Tweak

A modification of the Firefox download manager that changes its appearance and allows it to be opened in a window, tab, or sidebar.

Download Statusbar

View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Sage-Too

Breathing life back into the Sage project. A Firefox 3 port of Sage 1.3.10 with lots of additional functionality and bug fixes.

Pearl Crescent Page Saver

Save an image of an web page (including Flash content) to a file. A variety of options allow you to control the output format (PNG or JPEG), image file name, scaling, and more. Images may be captured interactively or from the command line.

InFormEnter

InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted – no typing required.

SpellBound

Adds additional spell-checking functionality to Firefox. If you are interested in saving money as well as your life, consider a healthy yet satisfying cigarette at: www.GetGreenSmoke.com

All-in-One Sidebar

iAll-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.

Text size toolbar

Adds text size buttons to the toolbar.

Mystickies

MyStickies allows you to place sticky notes all over the web and organize them with tags.

Clear Cache Button

Adds a clear cache toolbar button. After installing the extension, find the clear cache button in the toolbar customization.

gTranslate

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

Xinha Here!

Portable WYSIWYG editor! No matter what site you’re visiting you can launch a WYSIWYG right in your browser.

Yoono

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.

Feed Sidebar

The Feed Sidebar is an extension for Firefox that displays the items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.

NoScript

The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

Stealther

If there are times you want to surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer, then this is the right extension for you.

Password Exporter

This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported in another browser or computer.

Google Toolbar for Firefox

Lets you search google and all its services easily. Also powered by Google Suggest (Get query suggestions as you type in the search box), SpellCheck, AutoFill, Pagerank of webpage, access to gmail, WordTranslator etc.

CustomizeGoogle

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.

BetterSearch

An addon for Firefox and Flock which enhances Google and Yahoo! with all their international flavours, MSN and Delicious by adding previews (thumbnails) and additional functionality.

Answers

1-Click Answers TM will save you even more time with AnswerTips that instantly deliver the information you are looking for. Just point at any word, hold the Alt key (Ctrl in Linux) and click. Upon letting go, an AnswerTip in the form of a pop-up… For any questions or comments on the Answers add-on, please contact us: http://www.answers.com/main/contact_us.jsp

FoxyTunes

Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

Gmail Manager

The original Gmail notifier for multiple accounts. Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

WebMail Notifier

WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails… Supports : gmail, yahoo, hotmail, daum, naver, empas, nate and more

Bookmark with Del.icio.us

Manage your del.icio.us bookmarks from toolbar

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

Foxmarks is the essential bookmarking add-on. Install Foxmarks on each computer you use, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com. Foxmarks’ Suggested Tag feature helps you stay organized by recommending relevant tags as you add bookmarks in Firefox 3.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Reliby

Reload all your Live Bookmarks aka RSS feeds with a push of a button

Clipmarks

Instead of copying and pasting links, Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites. You can also post anything you clip directly to your blog (supports Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and more) or send it directly to friends or co-workers via email. Clipmarks also gives you a way to help the environment by printing only the parts of a page that you need. By printing just what you need, you’ll save ink, paper and trees, thus making a contribution to a cleaner environment. Your clip collection is accessible from any computer with an internet connection, including your iPhone, Blackberry, or other mobile device.

Shareaholic

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. This is the ultimate add-on for the link sharing addict!

Adsense Notifier

Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

Forecastfox Enhanced

This is the addon formerly known as Forecastfox Enhanced. It is an Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension (forecastfox.mozdev.org) by Jon Stritar and Richard Klien that provides a weather forecast right in your statusbar.

DictionarySearch

Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary you selected.

Web Developer

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Scribefire

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Map+

View a Yahoo! map of a selected address without having to open a new window or tab.

ChatZilla

A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

TwitterFox

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter.

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Firebug 1.3 requires Firefox 3.0.

wmlbrowser

Simulate WAP browsing by viewing WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages.

Access Flickr!

Just install the extension and restart your browser. There is no configuration, no menu, no icon… All needed configurations are done automatically!
After restarting, you can access flickr.com, without any restriction!
Just notice that you should use the basic uploader instead of the flash version. You can find the basic uploader here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/basic

URL Fixer

URL Fixer corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation).

Gspace

This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.

Converter

Contextual unit and timezone conversion on any web page (units: several metric/Imperial, both ways, configurable; timezones: any timezone to your local time).

WeatherBug

Get live, local weather conditions in Firefox with the WeatherBug extension. Featuring forecasts, radar, and severe weather alerts from WeatherBug’s community of neighborhood weather.

GooglePreview 3

Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

WOT

WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT’s color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites – green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

Fast Video Download 2.0

Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more. 100% Free!

NASA Night Launch

Dark theme for Firefox. Inspired by the night launch of STS-116.

Delicious Bookmarks

Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.

Fission

Fission combines address bar and progress bar (Safari style). This makes the progress bar more visible and allows for a nice visual effect.

Minimap Sidebar

The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of built-in maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel and get larger scale maps with the Map Tab. Import/Export KML, GPX, minimap xml file, CSV (export only). View traffic Info, drag and drop KML files, local search, Google, Yahoo! and Live Local directions, view in Google Earth, Tagzania, Platial, Geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use. Geodiscovery reveals geoURLís or geotags as you browse, with microformat support available in Firefox 3 (Adr and Geo).

AnyColor

Change Firefox to Any Color and create your own personalized theme.

All-in-One Gestures
merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)

Highlander
When you click a link to a URL that’s already open in another Firefox tab, the Highlander extension will cause the already opened tab to be focused, rather than duplicating the URL in a new tab.

Better Gmail 2
a compilation of Greasemonkey user scripts that adds advanced features to new version of Gmail.

AutoAuth
AutoAuth automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information.

Tabbrowser Preferences
a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.

Digg Toolbar
Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar

Linky
Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.

Linkification
Allows Firefox to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links

ErrorZilla
changes the default 404 error page with following choices: a google cache, an archival snapshot from the wayback machine, a ping, a trace route, and a whois lookup.

AutoCopy
Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. Middle click to Paste.

CookieCuller
Extended Cookie Manager to protect/unprotect selected cookies.

NextPlease
allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to jump to next and previous links on search results pages, like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and many other sites.

Google Images Re-Linker
This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.

Flashblock
Blocks all Flash content from loading on a webpage.

PicLens
transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for finding and viewing online photos and videos.

Stylish
Customize the look of the application and of websites with Stylish, a user styles manager.

Copy Plain Text
Copies text without formatting.

Reload Every
adds an option to the context menu to reload the web page you are viewing every so many seconds or minutes. Useful if you keep refreshing some pages often

Reveal
allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want.

BlueOrganizer

It helps you personalize your web experience based on what you already like, helping you discover relevant new information and save time.

Updated
Quirk SearchtSatus
SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. Designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar.

KallOut – Accelerators for Firefox
Search Faster– KallOut enables you to search the top sites on the web just by selecting text. Automatic BestGuess suggestions give you immediate access to Google Maps, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and many more depending on what you select!

User Interface – Ubiquity
Ubiquity is a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. You have to Install Firebug first!

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27 people have said something (how about you?)

Rohit March 6, 2009

Nice collection Great share!
Stumbled!

Btw, finally got a nice theme. It looks pretty.


koncept March 6, 2009

Extensive collection. I didn’t know about almost half of the addons, thanks for sharing.


Pavan Kumar March 6, 2009

Let me revisit this page again… Stumbled :)


bbrian017 March 6, 2009

nice post! I also never knew about all these plugins! The only one I use is firebug! I can’t live without it.

Thanks for sharing :)

Brian

Engaged!

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RNB Love Songs March 6, 2009

You’re missing my favorite plugin! Quirk SearchStatus shows you nofollow links, page rank, alexa ranking and keyword densities!

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Hip Hop Videos March 6, 2009

I second a vote for Quirk SearchStatus! But this collection is pretty good. I’ll be looking into a bunch of them.

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Raju March 6, 2009

Great effort man! stumbled!!

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Lee Lorenzen March 6, 2009

If you like IE8’s Accelerators feature but don’t want to give up Firefox (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10722 ).

NEWS ALERT (and shameless plug): KallOut Accelerators for Firefox was shipped in the Firefox Public Directory only yesterday (March 5, 2009).

Since KallOut for Firefox works as a browser add’-on, it is available for Mac, PC, Linux and since KallOut for Firefox is not a Microsoft product, it features all the best-of-breed sites in its context menu vs. a suite of Microsoft-only default offerings. I encourage you to check it out and predict that you will come to love its “BestGuess” search suggestions which are at the top of KallOut’s context menu that lists each of the sites that the user can send their selected text to as part of a search term.

This new category of “selection-based search” (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection-based_search) has the possibility of becoming as important as search toolbars which now account for 10% of all searches (NOTE: roughly $2 billion in CPC revenue is derived from searches that start in search toolbars). In the same way that search toolbars allow consumers to search faster by avoiding going to Google’s home page, KallOut takes search outside the box by allowing you to search using only your mouse.

Please try the product out and see if you don’t like it much better than IE8’s accelerators. And, once you’re comfortable with it in your Firefox browser, you can try out the Windows desktop version of KallOut that gives you the same functionality over IE6, IE7, Chrome, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Adobe Reader, etc.

Thanks,

Lee Lorenzen
CEO, KallOut – Search Outside the Box™

cell: 831-595-7501
e-mail: LeeL@KallOut.com


Vasu March 7, 2009

Great compilation buddy
Bookmarked!!

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Narendra.s.v March 8, 2009

@RNB Love Songs: Thanks, added to the list.
Lee Lorenzen: Thanks, added to the list.


Mybrainrunslinux March 9, 2009

Missed my two absolute favorites:

Mozilla’s Ubiquity – Turn your Firefox into a powerful command shell.

Yahoo’s YSlow! – Find out what’s taking so long! A must for anyone who manages Internet property.

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Narendra.s.v March 9, 2009

@Mybrainrunslinux: Thanks, added to the list.


G Web March 10, 2009

That is quite a comprehensive list! I am actually using Chrome now, as all the plugins I’ve installed on FireFox has turned it into a cranky resource hog, believe it or not! I really love my FireFox, but it desperately needs to go on a diet! I just don’t know where to start!


Jordan Garn March 11, 2009

Cool list, found some useful stuff there, I have a list here http://jordangarn.com/essential-firefox-plugins-for-web-developers If there is anything that you think might be a good addition go ahead


Narendra.s.v March 11, 2009

@Jordan Garn: Thanks, will check it out!


ravi March 11, 2009

nice collections


Used Cheap Laptops March 11, 2009

This is the best list I have seen about Firefox add-ons, I love colorful tabs, just downloaded it last week.


Nihar March 16, 2009

Great collection.

I would like you to come with a post which shows what all extensions do you use. I am sure one cannot use 100 extensions. if he/she uses then the firefox will eat up whole PC memory.

Am i right?

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Ben Pei March 16, 2009

Thats so many many many dude.. Give me sometime to finish them.

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vbb March 18, 2009

thanks for this extensive collection.It seems like i am using just a few .Will try into the others now.

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MobilesForum March 23, 2009

it’s so cool! I’ll download it now!


Redjeki Dot Net March 24, 2009

I think undo close tab not need plugin.. Just right click on right tab.. and you’ll see Undo close tab..


Amata March 24, 2009

I have been with Firefox near about 3 years.I fell good whenever i use it.Frankly speaking many of the mentioned features were unknown to me.Many many thanks for sharing in details.


Sarah May 30, 2009

I have added a few more add ons after reading this such as FoxyTunes and VideoDownloaderHelper..

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Thanks for the wonderful list of extensions.Text Size Toolbar bar is my favorite so far.

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Small Laptops July 6, 2009

Excellent list of add ons. Really didn’t think there were this many and I’m sure there are many more. Shows how much more advanced Firefox is in comparison to Internet Explorer.

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Ritani July 16, 2009

Awesome list of Firefox Addons… I use some but found few new ones in the list…

Thanks!

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