25 useful Firefox extension for the masses
When people talk about browser, Firefox name always comes up. What make it so special? We are not talking about the security or any other thing. We are talking about extensions. Firefox has the ability to be customized with extensions that suit your needs. Whether you are a web developer or a simple surfer, you can always use some of these extensions. We run down a list of the useful firefox extension that can help you.
1. Tools for Web Development
- Firebug is a must have extension that can be used to trace bugs. It has many various feature like dynamic console, DOM tree explorer, Javascript debugger, CSS viewer and editor.
- Web Developer have many option to help you in developing like disable java/ javascript, outline frames, headings, tables, validate CSS and many more.
- IE Tab Testing cross browser compatibility of your code is an important issue and now with this extension you can see how your web page displayed in IE.
- Extended Cookie Manager is a easy cookie manager used to detect whether a website send a cookie and shows if this cookie was blocked, allowed or only allowed for session in your status bar. Warning: May not be compatible with Tab Mix Plus.
- ColorZilla is certainly a colorful extension. It can select color on a webpage, adjust it and put it in any other program.
- ScribeFire may not help you building web but it certainly help you writing or editing your blog.
- Server Switcher enable you to switch between your development area and live servers, so that you can instantly see the differences.
2. Transfering Files
- ScrapBook helps you save web pages and manage them.
- FlashGot you don’t need to copy your download link and paste it in your downlaod manager anymore. this this extension do the job for you.
- 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”. With this, you don’t need to install another download manager software.
- Video Download Helper is very handy when you need to download from YouTube-like sites. Maybe for downloading some video tutorials.
- GSpace convert your Gmail space for a file storage. “It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.”
- FireFTP is an alternative FTP client in case you don’t want to use real FTP client like Filezilla.
3. Change The Way You Browse
- GreaseMonkey is a powerful script that lets you customize any webpage by adding Javascript code.
- FlashBlock Maybe those animation is good to see but sometimes it just take a long time to load or we just don’t want to see it. Grab this extension and you won’t see those Flash again. If you need to block something more than Flash, use adBlock
- DownloadStatusBar I don’t know about you, but I hate that download window. This extension allows you to keep those download dialog in status bar.
- TabMixPlus “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 combinations of opened tabs and windows.” If you don’t need those feature, maybe you can try Colorful Tabs or Chroma Tabs
- Session Manager saves your session after crashes. Don’t be afraid of losing data anymore.
- Cache Status give you information about your browser cache usage and can also clear it.
4. Explore the web
- StumbleUpon is a very addictive plugins that may reduce your sleep time. It can discover website based on your interest and bring it to you. You can also connect with people with the same interest and share your discoveries.
- Shareaholic If you like sharing things you found on the web and tired of copying and pasting links. Shareaholic currently supports: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, foxiewire, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader, healthranker, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, simpy, stumbleupon, streakr, truemors, tumblr, twitter, ycombinator, bzzster, etc.
- Sage is a popular extension for managing RSS feed
- Foxmark is a great extension that can synchronize your bookmark. You can access your bookmark from any other computer. Another great option for online bookmark is del.icio.us
- ClipMark saves a portion of website including text, graphic and video.
- FlagFox “Displays a country flag in the status bar depicting the location of the current website’s server, and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.”
OTHER
Firefox cheat sheet. This keyboard shortcut list is made for those who often forget to charge their wireless mouse or just lazy to move their arm to mouse.
Problematic extension list most of problematic extension and how to solve them.
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A twist on the “Video Download Helper” is a new Firefox extension at http://watchmelater.com.
It lets you watch any online video later without having to download it. The extension will place a small button under embedded videos that allows you to easily tag it to be watched later. It also includes some cool features like maximized playback and it will even automatically bookmark your place in YouTube videos.