My OperaA must have add-ons for Firefox
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 6:15:58 PM
We have a very wide selection of browsers these days and pretty much anyone can find something useful. In my case, we're talking about Mozilla Firefox. It's not the most advanced and it's not the fastest, but the cute foxy has the special charm and loads and loads of high quality add-ons that extend its functionality. Lets list some of them...
AdBlock Plus
Excellent add-on that blocks all the annoying advertisements, banners and other junk that spoils otherwise pretty webpages. In many cases, it will also speed up webpage loading where slow advertisement servers are involved.
FireGestures
If you've ever thought those back/forward buttons were useful, you have to give a try to mouse gestures. Once you try it, you'll never be able to go back. The most used in my experience are back/forward gestures or rocker gesture. And a new tab gesture. This will accelerate the way you browse the web.
GMail Watcher
A must have add-on for all the GMail users. It automatically checks for new e-mails and notifies the user. I just can't imagine being without it.
Xmarks
Are you using more than one computer but you want to have same bookmarks on all of them? And you hate the highly unreliable Firefox Sync? Maybe you use a Mac or different browsers? Xmarks is the answer. A cross platform bookmarks, history, opened tabs and passwords synchronization add-on that can sync all that between all major browsers. Once you try it, there is no way going back. It's a true time saver.
Firedownload
Constantly being annoyed by super slow downloads even though you have a multi-megabit connection? But you just don't like download managers that have to run in the background. Firedownload is the solution. It will supercharge downloads and in most cases, it will easily max out your connection regardless of the webpage. Another must have add-on.
AdBlock Plus
Excellent add-on that blocks all the annoying advertisements, banners and other junk that spoils otherwise pretty webpages. In many cases, it will also speed up webpage loading where slow advertisement servers are involved.
FireGestures
If you've ever thought those back/forward buttons were useful, you have to give a try to mouse gestures. Once you try it, you'll never be able to go back. The most used in my experience are back/forward gestures or rocker gesture. And a new tab gesture. This will accelerate the way you browse the web.
GMail Watcher
A must have add-on for all the GMail users. It automatically checks for new e-mails and notifies the user. I just can't imagine being without it.
Xmarks
Are you using more than one computer but you want to have same bookmarks on all of them? And you hate the highly unreliable Firefox Sync? Maybe you use a Mac or different browsers? Xmarks is the answer. A cross platform bookmarks, history, opened tabs and passwords synchronization add-on that can sync all that between all major browsers. Once you try it, there is no way going back. It's a true time saver.
Firedownload
Constantly being annoyed by super slow downloads even though you have a multi-megabit connection? But you just don't like download managers that have to run in the background. Firedownload is the solution. It will supercharge downloads and in most cases, it will easily max out your connection regardless of the webpage. Another must have add-on.
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