I’d class myself as a fairly heavy internet user (addict you say? psssht!), and as such i like to have my firefox seriously beefed up with various extensions to make everything run exactly how i want it, so i thought i would put a quick post together to share them with you.

  • Adblock Plus – Ads were yesterday! This extension is great for stripping adverts from pages, either by manually adding your own rules, or by using packs such as Fanboy’s List
  • All-in-One Gestures – This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
  • All-in-One Sidebar – Sidebar control with award-winning user experience! Grab your history, addons, bookmarks etc all together in one handy hideaway sidebar.
  • AutoPager – AutoPager is an extension for auto loading the next page in the background.  Rather than clicking the next at the bottom of pages on Flickr, Twitter or wherever you simply keep scrolling down as it loads the next page in sequence.  Loads of sites already configured, or the ability to add your own through a wizard interface.
  • ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodie. Ideal for people that often need to check the exact colour of an element, such as designers and photographers etc.
  • Copy as HTML Link – Creates an HTML link to the current page using the selected text and copies it.
  • Download Statusbar – View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbarat the bottom of the browser rather than in a dedicated window.
  • DownThemAll! – The mass downloader for Firefox with multipart spliting and resume etc, much like the usual download managers, but native to firefox.
  • dragdropupload – This extension helps you to upload filesby simply dragging them in to the relevant box on a page.
  • Exif Viewer – Allows you to view the EXIF information for any image you may happen across on a site but a simple right click.
  • Extension List Dumper – Dumps a list of the installed extensions, exactly what i used to make this post.
  • FEBE – Backup your Firefox data, profile, extensions and everything.  This has a few good uses, such as backing up before a migration to a new release, the ability to revert to old settings if things go wrong, or simply to be able to take your profile to another machine.
  • Find In Numbers – Displays the number of matched items when searching in web pages.
  • Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer – Synchronizes your bookmarks across machines automatically, with the added option of doing the same for passwords also.  Synchronised bookmarks are also available by the www.foxmarks.com site from any browser.
  • Greasemonkey – A User Script Manager for Firefo, allowing you to add the many userscripts around the web for doing on the fly changes to websites to have them working exactly as you want.
  • gTranslate – Translates the selected text via Google Translate.
  • Image Viewer – A cool gadget that lets you wiew only the images of any page. And if it is a photo gallery, then you see the enlarged photos.
  • Link Alert – Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link. Images will show an image icon, links to new windows will show a popup icon, scripts will show a script icon, etc.
  • Linkification – Converts text links into genuine, clickable links, automatically and on the fly.

    • Ive just uninstalled this, slows rendering of pages by a good 75% – dont use IMO.

  • MeasureIt – Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
  • Menu Editor – Customize application menus such as the right click context menu to keep them uncluttered and ordered how you like.
  • Organize Status Bar – Organise your status bar icons. Really useful if you have a lot of extensions that put items in the status bar and you want to remove or relocate some of them.
  • Paste Email (original) – Paste email addresses and more into text fields. Great for storing commonly used strings such as email address, commonly used code snippets or whatever, which can then be inserted at the click of a mouse into any text entry field.
  • Platypus – Dynamically create GreaseMonkey scripts.
  • Resurrect Pages – Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts by providing links to Google Cache, Archive.org and various other archive services.
  • Secure Login – A login extension similar to Opera’s Wand login.
  • Socialite – Vote on and submit stories to reddit social news sites.
  • Speed Dial – Direct access to your most visited websites, similar to Opera’s speed dial.
  • Stop-or-Reload Button – Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one. When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button.
  • StumbleUpon – StumbleUpon Toolba, quick access to stumbling sites, voting on stumbleupon etc.
  • translator – Website translation extension, to give instant translation of pages.
  • Tree Style Tab – Show tabs like a tree, vertically down the side of the browser instead of horizontally, which is a must if you often have a lot of tabs open imo.
  • Update Notifier – Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes.
  • URL Fixer -  Fixes common misspellings in URLs entered in the address bar.
  • Youtube Tooltip- View Youtube video information in a tooltip when hovering over Youtube link.

Hopefully you might have found one or two in there that you are interested in, but if there is one you cant live without that i have missed then please let me know in the comments below :)

~Shepy