10 Must Have Firefox Add-ons

Firefox add-ons (popularly called as plugins or extensions) are tiny programs that are developed for Mozilla Firefox browser that adds more functionality and allows total customization of Firefox browser. As Firefox is an open-source browser, the add-ons can be developed by public who have enough developer skills. This allows a wide range of applications to be written by enthusiasts that bring new, handy features to the browser in day-to-day life.

In this post we will provide the detailed information about the top 10 useful add-ons that serves better and safe browsing which also saves your valuable time.

Adblock Plus:

It is a Firefox add-on that allows you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets. Adblock Plus is a must have add-on if you are stuck with a slower internet connection.

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Video DownloadHelper:

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item. For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you’ll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others. With a single click the video is yours. A must add-on if you love to download videos.

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Greasemonkey:

Most of them will be familiar with this add-on if you they are active on Orkut. Greasemonkey allows to customize the web page by using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are available at http://userscripts.org. Among from  those scripts Download YouTube Videos as MP4 is my favorite.

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DownThemAll:

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 4x and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want! Be in full control over your downloads, dedicated speed and number of parallel connections at any time. Use Metalinks or add mirrors manually to download a file from different servers at the same time.

Download DownThemAll

WOT-Safe Surfing:

WOT is the leading website reputation rating tool and one of Mozilla’s most popular add-ons. WOT uses a traffic-light rating system to show you which websites you can trust when you search, surf and shop online.

WOT ratings are powered by a global community of millions of users who rate millions of websites based on their experiences. You will see green, yellow or red icons next to search results on Google and Yahoo, links on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, web based email such as Gmail and Hotmail, Wikipedia, and many other popular sites.

WOT Safe Search brings you the safest search results on the web. You can choose to filter out links with poor ratings so you are in control of which websites you and your family visit. WOT Safe Search is added as the default search to your browser.

Download WOT-Safe Surfing

PDF Download:

Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control 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.

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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 with crash recovery that can save and restore combination of opened tabs and windows.

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Stylish:

Stylish lets you easily manage user styles. Add, delete, enable, disable, and organize with a few clicks of a mouse, no code to edit, no obscure configuration to find. Stylish’s companion website, userstyles.org, hosts tens of thousands of user styles made by other Stylish users that you can try. This add-on empower browsing experience by letting you customize web sites. Take out irrelevant content, change colors, or completely redesign the entire site. You can even use user styles as themes on the interface of Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey themselves.

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Firebug:

Firebug is one of the most awesome and useful tools ever created. Accelerated by orders of magnitude my learning of HTML and CSS. 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.

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FireFTP:

FireFTP gives you the power of a top-notch FTP client from within your Firefox browser. It can handle multiple accounts and remember different logins, passwords, and connection settings for each. It supports authenticated TSL, authenticated SSL, and implicit SSL for secure transfers, drag and drop, and CHMOD changes. The plug-in works across platforms, lets users import and export account settings, and supports directory comparisons and synchronization, time-stamp syncing, file hashes, and auto-reconnect.

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