In my opinion the best part about Firefox is definitely the extensions! So here is a list of 60 of my favorite extensions (not really in any particular order, although the top ones are actually the ones I use the most). To get there extensions just visit this website!
• Adblock Plus – Half the reason I use Firefox, it lets you get rid of anything on the page, especially ads! Although there has been a lot of controversy over this: if you block ads then free sites that are supported by ads (like this one) may not be able to provide all the info for free anymore... I recommend you use it to block the more annoying ads (those stupid flashings one that also take up your bandwidth) and try to ignore the simple text based ones !
• Adblock Filterset.G Updater - This extension allows you to automatically keep up to date Adblock or Adblock+ with G's latest filterset every 4-7 days. It also provides you with the ability to define your own filters that you want to persist between updates.
• Google Toolbar - Google Search, Autolink, Translation and SpellCheck in one toolbar.
• SiteAdvisor - Best. Web Safety. Extension. Ever. They trolled 95% of the world's web traffic and tested e-mail registration forms with unique e-mail addresses for spam and downloads for spyware.
• Unplug – A great tool to download movies from almost ANY website. Just right click and click unplug!
• HideBad – Playing games at work/school and you hear someone coming? Use the HideBad shortcut to close all the tabs, clear browsing history (along with anything else you would like to specify) and sends you to your homepage! Also allows you to recover the tabs you closed once the person is gone!
• Stealther - Temporarily disable history and cache.
• Web Developer Toolbar – A very essential tools for any web developer. Too
many things to mention here.
• Greasemonkey - "Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add
bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behaviour. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page's design or interaction."
• Tab Mix Plus - Loads of Tab improvements. Changing the behaviour of tab opening, focus, closing, mouse events on tab and much more. One of the best tab extensions around!
• IE Tab - IE Tab allows embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla and Firefox.
• BugMeNot - This extension automatically fills in login forms from a list of username and passwords collected from bugmenot.com. With this, you can bypass registrations on websites that you would not like to be registered with will still being able to access their content.
• StumbleUpon - "StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like €“minded stumblers have liked."
• Download Statusbar - Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.
• SessionSaver - "SessionSaver restores your browser -exactly- as you left it, every startup, every time. Not even a crash will phase it. Windows, tabs, even things you were typing -- they're all saved."
• DownThemAll! - The power downloader: lets you download in just one click links, images or other selections contained in a webpage.
• ScrapBook - ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: * Save Web page * Save snippet of Web page * Save Web site (In-depth Capture) * Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree * Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing tools * Full text search and quick filtering search * Text edit feature resembling Opera's Notes
• Mouse Gestures - Allows you to execute commands by moving the mouse around.
• Gmail Manager - "This is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets."
• CustomizeGoogle - It enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
• ColorZilla - Use and eyedropper tool to find the color of any point in your browser.
• FlashGot - "FlashGot turns every supported download manager in a download manager for Firefox"
• Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. There is also quite a bit of contriversy over this one too. It downloads all the links on the page so if you click on one it will load faster. If you are sharing a connection this would really be a bandwidth hog... It can also be a big problem if you have limited bandwidth and are on the border of running out every month.
• Forecastfox - Gives a weather forecast in the lower right hand corner of Firefox.
• Gmail Notifier - A good replacement for Google's notifier, this extension
adds a statusbar item showing if you have new email. You can configure the time between checks for new email.
• All In One Sidebar (AIOS) - Manage a lot of things through the Firefox sidebar, create new toolbars, etc.
• NoScript - NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice.
• Foxy Tunes - FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox. It also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted.
• Stop or Reload Button - Combines Stop & Reload into one button
• SuperDragAndGo - Drag a link (e.g. google ), text-link (e.g. http://www.google.com ), text-uri (e.g. abc.com ), image , or bookmark quicklink from bookmarks toolbar folder and throw it anywehere on your webpage (content area) to open it on a new tab.
• Update Notifier - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Easily configurable for automatically installing updates when available and checking for updates when Firefox starts.
• Restart Firefox - Adds "Restart Firefox" menu item to "File", and a toolbar button for easy restarting. Great for when you are installing a lot of themes or extensions and need to restart Firefox.
• Tabbrowser Preferences - Advanced controlls for tabbed browsing.
• Performancing - "Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs."
• Platypus - Interactive removal of page elements through Greasemonkey.
• Fleck - Fleck let's you add notes and comment to every page on the web. Blog or share your annotated pages. **Comarking** (commenting and Bookmarking in one) is what they call it. *no account needed!*
• All-in-One Gestures - This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
• Menu Editor - Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File, Edit, View, etc.).
• Paste and Go - "...lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the adress bar's context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. Similarly, you can "Paste and Search" via the search bar's context menu or Ctrl-Shift-S."
• Image Zoom - Adds zoom functionality for images. Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page.
• User Agent Switcher - Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
• Mass Installer - If you have ever had to re-install Firefox, or you are installing Firefox for the first time on a new computer, you know it can be a pain to hunt down and install your favorite extensions. The Mass Installer extension reads a list of extension URLs from a text file and automatically installs them all in one fell swoop.
• Firefox Showcase - Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox. Press F12, and it generates a page with the small thumbnails of opened webpages. (Like in IE7 :)
• FlashBlock - Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
• ForecastFox Enhanced - Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension. This adds 12 improved radar images and the ability to supply a URL for your own radar image. It also allows for pausing, restarting and setting the frequency of automatic updates.
• Measure It - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
• IE View Lite - This is a cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub, which is 47.4 KB. All the same UI and features are there. It has a right click menu item to open a page in IE and a list of sites to always open in IE. Everything's just been rebuilt from the ground up to be smaller and more efficient. Plus, it has the ability to pass extra parameters to the executable (very helpful for use with WINE), which is not included in regular IE View.
• SpellBound development version - As you type spell check in every text fields. Supports all the dictionaries provided by Mozilla.
• Add Bookmark Here - Allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera.
• FEBE - This is a brand new Firefox extension that allows you to create a
backup of all your installed extensions and themes. The backups are created in an installable xpi format so you can easily export them to another computer.
• Fission - Fission combines address bar and progress bar, making the progress bar more visible and allowing for a nice visual effect. This is similar to the Safari browser's progress bar.
• Handwriting Font Tips - The Personal Touch That Makes a Difference - Most websites use similar fonts and as a result have a generic look. So, if you want to differentiate your look and also add a personal touch to your website, consider using handwriting fonts.
• Torrent Finder Toolbar - Torrent Search Toolbar that enables all Torrent Finder search functions from your own Firefox browser. The new Toolbar should give you more flexibility and feature rich to make you find torrents in a snap.
• Gmail File Space - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gmail account looks like a FTP host and you can upload and download your files.
• Download Embedded - Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, movies, music, etc., and a lot easier than digging through the page source or through Firefox's Page Info.
• Slim Extension List - Makes items in extension list shorter, so you can see more at once. Also, sorts them by name (optionally).
• Mouseless Browsing - GREAT extension to browse with the keyboard only!
• Foxlingo - Foxlingo translates websites with their current interface; many languages supported.
• SwitchProxy Tool - "SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes."
• FoxClocks – Its a clock -.- for Firefox...