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20 Superb Firefox Add-ons That Can Make Your Lives Easier

by 2E Editorial in Firefox, Tools

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Firefox is a great browser for all who conduct research on the Internet. Firefox has cool thousands of add-ons to customize and improve your web browsing experience, all add-ons are distributed in multiple categories like blogging, tools, entertainment, humor, news, security and more.

Here is list of top 20 superb Firefox add-ons that from web designer to every internet user should know!

ReadIt Later

Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

Session Manager

Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows – either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs.

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.

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.

Speed Dial

With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. To show the Speed Dial tab, use the Speed Dial button (which can be added to the toolbar), or enter “chrome://speeddial/content” in your location bar.

Personas

Personas are free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox that make changing the look of the browser as easy as changing your shirt. With Personas, you can individualize your browser with hundreds of artist-created designs or create your own design to share with a worldwide audience of millions.

Flash Got

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.

NoScript

Winner of the “2006 PC World World Class Award”, this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, guarding your “trust boundaries” against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attempts, thanks to its unique ClearClick technology.

Down Them All

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

Tumblr Post

This extension lets you post photos, videos, mp3s, quotes or links to your Tumblr account by dragging the content to the Tumblr icon that this extension adds to your statusbar.

Fire FTP

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

Twitter Fox

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.

Clipmarks

Instead of linking to entire web pages, Clipmarks lets you clip exactly what you want others to see. Our browser add-on lets you save and share what you’re reading on the web with greater precision than is possible with links. There are lots of things you can do with your clips:

Your clip collection is accessible from any computer with an internet connection, including your iPhone, Blackberry, or other mobile device.

ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program….

HTML Validator

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Seo Quake

Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet…

Screengrab

Screengrab! saves webpages as images…

It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

Abduction

Capture an entire web page or part of a web page and save it as an image.

For the sake of making this extension findable: This extension takes screenshots of websites.

Author: 2E Editorial
is a freelance web and graphic designer as well as developer. He is the author and owner of 2experts Design, a design blog with great inspirational posts. You can follow 2experts design on Twitter.

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Owen
July 14th, 2009

No firebug?

http://getfirebug.com/
Stewart Feldman
July 14th, 2009

I couldn’t live without CoolPreviews.
Steffen Bruchmann
July 15th, 2009

No Fireshot?

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/5648
Fred
July 15th, 2009

Best feed reader – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/424
Gary
July 15th, 2009

AdBlock Plus should be included. It is excellent for keeping the obnoxious clutter to a minimum.
The standard filtering packages can be modified to add an additional filter or exclude something that you wish to view.
Leonard
July 15th, 2009

I find that for taking screenshots, Fireshot is the best by far. Also, I can’t live without Mouse Gestures Redox, saves a great deal of motion and time.

2c
jason
July 15th, 2009

Yes. Firebug is definitely a ‘mega’ addon missing from the list esp. for developers. Plus there are more addons built on top of firebug like yslow, firephp, code finder etc…
Also, check out an addon called Feedly for your RSS feeds, found it great.
evcorreu
July 15th, 2009

Nice list, i can just add Cooliris to search for images and videos
Mary
July 16th, 2009

Hey. its a great list. I would like to include Billeo. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12715
Henry
July 16th, 2009

Thanks for this! I like the idea of ‘read it later”. I will definitely check out right now. For web developers you can check out this post for Firefox Ext. for Web Designers http://ffffffive.com/articles/10-essential-firefox-add-ons-for-web-designers/
.-= Henry´s last blog ..Daily Creative Inspiration #14 =-.
Tutorial Lounge
July 16th, 2009

thare is great stuff for web designers and really best for bloggers too, its true this is my expeirnce dude ))
.-= Tutorial Lounge´s last blog ..20+ Stunning Tutorials of Adobe InDesign by LayersMagazine =-.
Adrian
July 17th, 2009

Great article as a Internet Explorer user for many years, after reading this Firefox is the one! Some really useful tools – like Seoquake and ReadItLater
…I will be downloading Firefox tonight!
Strx
July 17th, 2009

Aviary is the best screen capture/editing ever
webmasterdubai
July 17th, 2009

for blogs you have to put ScribeFire for blog editing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730
Santa Rosa Graphic Design
July 18th, 2009

There is one other add-on offered at the Mozilla site that from a developers standpoint that take all of the guesswork out of sizing for the internet. The plug-in is MeasureIt. By draging the crooshairs over anything that appears in your browser MeasureIt will provide the dimensions. Great fro sizing and CSS.
Luis Lopez
July 20th, 2009

Excellent i recommend you to use, also the alexa extension, it helps you to see the alexa rank, compete rank and google pagerank of a site.
and the Measure it, if you want to know the width of something you see online
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Diyet
July 24th, 2009

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James
July 30th, 2009

Missed Firebug, Scribefire in this list. They are a must have for any blogger.
.-= James´s last blog ..Hudson CI Server – A quick start guide =-.
bobol
August 8th, 2009

no CSS viewer?
Phaoloo
August 11th, 2009

Love ReatItLater, it is extremely useful when I’m stumbling or tweeting. Just store it and read it later when I have spare time.

Also find FireBug useful, but don’t know why it is not in the list. Love NoScript, it keeps my browser safe from bad sites contain mailware.
Raghu
September 8th, 2009

great post man. Good research on the web all firefox lovers will love this post.
.-= Raghu´s last blog ..Best Firefox Addons to make Bookmarks =-.
Bobby
October 12th, 2009

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lars_m
October 17th, 2009

Great post. Great site!

Try diigo.com if you ever wished you could use your yellow highlight marker and post-it notes on webpages.
Crazy79
October 23rd, 2009

The assertion that language displays little or no redundancy is puzzling. ,
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