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Custom Interface Firefox Addons
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Stratiform
Make your own colour scheme and theme with an easy to use interface. |
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All-In One Sidebar
Access bookmarks, history, downloads, add-ons and more from a sidebar. |
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Omnibar
Combine the redundant address and search bars into one, just like in Google Chrome. |
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Tab Utilities
Feature-packed Firefox addon for getting the most out of your tabs. |
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Vertical Toolbar
Move icons to the left of the browser to save vertical space |
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Add to Search Bar
Move icons to the left of the browser to save vertical space |
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Back/forward dropmarker
Adds a drop marker to the combined back/forward button. |
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Findbar Tweak
Allows you to tweak your Findbar however you like it. |
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Desktop
Create a custom speed-dial page for easy access to your favourite sites. |
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TabGroups Manager
Makes Firefox tab groups more accessible. |
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All-in-One Gestures
Execute common commands with mouse gestures. |
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FoxClocks
World clocks in your status bar. |
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Status-4-Evar
Status bar widgets and progress indicators. |
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Tab Badge
Adds alerts for new events on websites like Gmail, Twitter and Facebook. |
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Super Start Similar to Fast Dial or Speed Dial. |
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Integrated Gmail Lets you have Gmail, gCal and Google Reader all in one place. |
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Duplicate Tab Closer This Firefox addon Quickly finds duplicate open tabs and closes one instance. |
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Tabs Menu Access your open tabs using a menu list. |
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Tab Mix Plus Allows advanced control over tab behaviour. |
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New Tab King Easy access to your most-used sites and suggested sites. |
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Tile Tabs Lets you tile your open tabs in the one view. |
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Location Bar Enhancer Changes the location bar into a breadcrumb trail. |
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Print Edit Allows you to edit web content before printing. |
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All-In-One Sidebar Allows you to put windows in your sidebar and customise heavily. |
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Google Redesigned Lets you choose custom themes for Gmail, etc. |
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Google Shortcuts Add a drop-down shortcut menu for Google services. |
Custom Web Addons
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GreaseMonkey
Access to thousands of user-made scripts that make the Internet better. |
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Adblock Plus
Never see an online ad again. Also useful for blocking malware. |
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AdBlock Video
Watch videos online without watching ads. Works with Hulu and most networks sites. |
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Flash Block
Block every and all flash files until you want to see them. |
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NoScript
The ultimate security extension: only run scripts on sites you trust. |
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Thumbnail Zoom
See full size images by hovering over thumbnails on Facebook, Amazon and more. |
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AutoPager
Make websites and blogs keep scrolling forever and ever and ever. |
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Scriptish
A fork of Greasemonkey, allowing more scripts to improve the Internet. |
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QuickJava This Firefox addon can quickly enable or disable Java, stylesheets, animations, flash, etc. |
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Turn Off The Lights Dims web content in the background of videos for better viewing. |
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365Scores Notifier Keep track of your favourite sports teams and be notified of results. |
Downloading Managers for Firefox
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DownThemAll
Download all links or images on any website and accelerate downloads. |
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Download Statusbar
Watch and manage your downloads at the bottom of your browser window. |
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DownloadHelper
Download and convert videos from a variety of websites around the web. |
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Ant Video Downloader
Download videos from around the web and watch them, offline, from your browser. |
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Skip Screen
Avoid the wait pages on Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire and similar sites. |
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Best Video Downloader
Allows YouTube downloading in many formats including MP3 and AAC. |
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FlashGot
Download multiple media files at once. |
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BYTube D Batch download selected videos from any YouTube page. |
Reading Firefox Addons
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Feedly
Your own online magazine, with stories from your favorite sites. |
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Brief
Simple and elegant RSS reader designed to just let you read. |
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Readability
Save articles to read later, or read them now without ads and sidebars. |
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Pocket
Save articles from the web for reading later, when have time. |
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EPUBReader
Open and read EPUB (ebook) files in your browser. |
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Clearly
Makes articles clean and easy to read and allows sync to Evernote. |
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QuickFox Notes
Easy note-taking in Firefox. |
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Bamboo Feed Reader
Simple RSS reader. |
Shopping Addons
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Invisible Hand
Find the best price out there for anything your search or shop for. |
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Boo.ly
Search for an item; see a breakdown of prices in the results. |
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Amazon Add To WishList
Add items you find online to your Amazon wishlist, whatever site you find it on. |
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Windowshop
Compare prices for over 140 million products. Works in the US, UK and Germany. |
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Shopping Assistant Helps you to compare prices across many online stores. |
Social Firefox Extensions
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StumbleUpon
Click a button; see a random website relevant to your interests. Great time waster. |
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Shareaholic
Quickly share websites you find with your friends on any social network. |
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Firestatus
Update your Twitter or Facebook status by clicking a button on your toolbar. |
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Scribefire Next Write blog posts within your browser without being on the site with this popular Firefox addon. |
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Rapportive
Social CRM for Gmail. Collects and shows information about your contacts in the Gmail sidebar. |
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Wisestamp
Add social network links to the signature of your Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts. |
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Hootbar Gives you all the power of Hootsuite from your address bar. |
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Yoono All your IM and social network access from the one place. |
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Imgur Image uploader for social networks. |
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Facebook Auto-Logout Facebook auto-logout for a bit of extra protection on a shared computer. |
Sync Extensions
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XMarks
Your bookmarks and passwords, synced across all your computers and browser. |
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LastPass
Securely store your passwords online. Encrypts passwords locally before uploading. |
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FEBE backup
Backup all of your Firefox extensions so you can quickly install them again. |
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SurfOn
Easily move any set of tabs from one computer or browser to the next. |
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KeeFox Syncs passwords stored with KeePass. |
Security Addons
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HTTPS everywhere
Encrypt your web usage whenever possible to keep your private information safe. |
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Ghostery
Track the services trying to track you, and maintain your online privacy. |
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Track-Me-Not
Sends random queries to search engines to obscure your searching habits and protect your privacy. |
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Better Privacy
Protects against long-term “Super-Cookies” that track you for market research. |
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Web Of Trust
Shows you which websites can be trusted, based on feedback from millions of other users. |
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Priv3
Stops social networking sites from tracking you. |
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Pwgen This Firefox addon will automatically generate a password for you. |
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Saved Password Editor Allows you to edit your saved passwords in Firefox. |
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Collusion Lets you visualise which sites have been tracking you with cookies. |
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Do Not Track Plus Stop websites tracking you after you leave. |
Developers
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Firebug
Inspect the web. Find out what code makes up bits and pieces of any webpage. |
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Web Developer
A cornucopia of web development tools added to your browser. |
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FireFTP
A full-featured FTP client built into your Firefox browser. Upload and download files. |
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Colorzilla
An eyedropper for detecting colors on the web and other colorful goodies. |
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SEO Blogger
Discover sought-after search terms for your post as you’re writing. |
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MeasureIt
Put a ruler on any site to measure the pixel width or height of objects. |
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FirePicker
Simple colour-picking tool for Firefox. |
Research Firefox Addons
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Zotero
Collect, manage and cite the sources for your latest project. |
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Diigo
Bookmark sources, then highlight what’s important and leave notes, all within your browser. |
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gTranslate
Quickly translate text with Google by highlighting and right-clicking it. |
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TinEye Reverse Image Search
Find similar images to the one you found with this reverse image search tool. |
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Scrapbook
Save web pages and manage collections of pages. |
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Who Stole My Pictures
Searches using five image search engines. |
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Similar Sites Shows you the 10 most similar sites to the one you’re viewing. |
Other Firefox Addons
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FasterFox
Tweaks and speeds up your browser, and the entire web. |
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FlagFox
See flags representing the country any website is hosted in. |
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User Agent Switcher
Trick websites into thinking you’re using another browser. Perfect for some IE-only services. |
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Session Manager
Save your current session, including open tabs. Open these sessions later. |
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Lazarus: Form Recovery
Resurrect information you added to a form only to lose to a browser crash. |
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NoSquint
Change the zoom settings for text or the entire page. Perfect for high-resolution monitors. |
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AlertBox
Track changes in web pages and get alerts for important changes. |
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Link Stalker
This Firefox addon highlights all the links on any page you visit. |
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Destroy the Web
Take a break and turn any web page into a game. |
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Memory Fox
Tries to reduce Firefox’s RAM usage. |
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InstantFox Quick Search Gives you Google autocomplete for search in your address bar. |
Disclaimer: All Firefox addons listed were thoroughly reviewed. MakeUseOf is not responsible for any damage and/or data loss
that might result from use of any of the above mentioned extensions.
Hide 75 Comments
it is very nice
This is brilliant!
These are some of the best plugins I’ve come across, and I’ve used many of them for awhile.
I’m thrilled to be introduced to more, thanks so much for sharing this. You rock!
Nice,
Very usefull
thx i ‘ve been waiting for this other must addons are – add to search bar
and Back/forward dropmarker for people who aren’t using firefox 3.*
Clearly
I’d add one extension to the Reading section – Clearly – which strips a page down to its basic article and allows you to send the result directly to Evernote.
QuickFox Notes
I’d also add one to the Other section – QuickFox Notes. This is an incredibly useful extension. You can open up QFN in a new Firefox window or tab. QFN provides a tabbed note interface with the notes stored in a bookmark folder so they automatically sync with your other devices (assuming you have a bookmark sync extension). In addition to the common note app functions, it also supports encryption of individual notes if you are storing sensitive data. A great extension that keeps getting better and written by a very responsive programmer.
For the research or other category, I would recommend the addition of the scrapbook or scrapbook plus extension.
I just want a calendar
Try Thunderbird – free replacement to MS Outlook (Email client); can add a calendar extension called Lightning. I have used both and am very pleased.
Doesn’t firefox have sync built in now?
It does, but if you want to sync with other browsers you’re going to need another tool.
this is awesome list and found some great addons
Good list. There are some that I hadn’t seen yet that I will be trying.
One other that I use a lot, being in the Philippines and my famliy scattered over the rest of the world is FoxClocks. Its been around a very long time and is continually being improved.
On the security front, surprised that you didn’t mention KeyScrambler. While I’ve never been hit by a keylogger, it’s nice to know that a program will make it more difficult for someone to access your information that way.
excellent selection.
thank you
Ups, I didn’t see Memory Fox or Status-4-Evar !
man!! where flashgot??
How can u forget it
Superb Collection. Thanks for share
Why not add Scriptish? Its a fork of Greasemonkey, with updating enabled and faster loading of scripts. Also, it has a button for disabling user scripts completely and for disabling individual scripts, along with more configuration options.
Instead of “TineEye Reverse Image Search”, you should include in the list “Who stole my pictures”. This extension packs 5 reverse image search engines including tineye..
Nice.Thanks for sharing.I have put in page in my bookmarks. I just found these addons not only can be used in firefox, but also can be used in the browsers with Gecko engine.(Avant browser as I know) That’s great.
It is very smart and nice please add some additional topics if possible
in the security topic you guys should also include Priv3 http://priv3.icsi.berkeley.edu/
thanks, we will check it out
Destroy the web
Awesome Entertainment Add on
check All-in-one Gestures (mouse gestures) one of most usefull extension.
thanks, we will check it out
You should have included ‘Scrap Book’. It’s amazing. You should check it out.
Very helpful!!
Add-ons are very well categorized..keep it up
thanks, we’ll check them out
thank you ….. you know what I want
Adblock Plus and Flash block is standars om all my computers Then it varies but you have made a very nice collection – think I have to add one or two
Is there a firefox programme that lets you know who has deactiated their account on Facebook and who has deleted you as a friend …..
Pam,
I don’t know about a Firefox add-on, but there is a website that let’s you see some of this information: Who.Deleted.Me: See Who Deleted You On Facebook
cool. I wasn’t aware of these. Thanks.
wow, thanks for the list … and because of your impressive information, i try to use add-ons called “AdBlock” and it works very well for me, thanks again
very useful, thanks!
Just noted that there is no category for addons that alert you of changes. I couldn’t live without AlertBox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alertbox/.
thanks for the input, we’ll check it out
Thanks for the information. Agree with Semekawa. Just used AlertBox and its wonderful.
Thanks for the tip!
This a good collection of addons. Thanks.
Picked up quite a few of these that I have never used before.
Great to hear!
InstantFox (as alternate to Omnibar *plus* Add to Search Bar) is one awesome addon.
(Also, I don’t think Add to Search Bar is compatible with current Firefox versions.)
Also, for KeePass users, KeeFox is invaluable. Check it out as well.
Awesome, we’ll look into them. Thanks!
Is there any addon for India in the shopping section,cos the ones listed only work for USA,UK etc
Zafer,
Not sure we will be adding addons for India in the shopping section anytime soon. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any. However, you may receive good suggestions if you ask this question over at MakeUseOf Answers.
Hi Zafer, I’d ask this over at MakeUseOf Answers if I were you. I don’t personally know of any Indian shopping apps, but that’s because I don’t live there. Good luck!
http://www.makeuseof.com/answers
You have this – eBay Search Suggestions for India [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ebay-search-suggestions-for-in/]
I don’t think there’s another.
Thanks for the list! I’m switching from Chrome to Firefox and some of these addons have made the switch a bit easier.
Very good article!
Super Start is very nice, could be included in the Custom Interface category.
handfull of really good add-on’s.
Very useful!
for Developers or Reading suggestion: FireShot creates webpage screenshots entirely.
The captures can be quickly annotated and: saved to as PDF/PNG/GIF/JPEG/BMP, uploaded, printed, etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireshot/
Nice one, thanks!
I would say great! Already installed a few!
Thanks for the great post.
One of my personal best blugin for firefox is Mycroft, a search blugin which can generate a search engine for many well known web sites.
How often does this get updated?
We update all of our Best Of pages every 3 months, Michael.
Every three months. It was most recently updated at the start of August.
its nice to download all the plugins in one site that is makeuse of.thanks to the team
The grouping of all the add-ons is very helpful. I was able to avoid add-ons I’ll never use and found the ones that might help with Fire Fox. Thanks.
I scour the web for the best free apps, programs featured at my site and ‘Make Use of’ offers one of the best, most comprehensive collection of apps, programs I’ve seen.
You have a spelling error in Firefox/Web Developer
Web Developer
A cornicopia of web development tools added to your browser.
The correct spelling is ‘cornucopia’
Thanks for letting us know!
You should add “Print pages to pdf” add-on to your page. It is very good add-on to save webpages to .pdf format, and it has some other functions like it can save many tabs as pdf in single file. link to the add-on:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-pages-to-pdf/?src=search
That sounds very useful. I’ll check it out – thanks!
Dhaval,
We regularly publish articles with Top X lists on the main blog. Our Best Of pages are more comprehensive lists. However, you can find the Top X apps/extensions for each category, making it less overwhelming.
There is no need to read or try all of the recommended extensions. Just go with what you need, e.g. better downloading, and try the extensions under the respective header. The first one in the list usually is the most popular one and/or the one we like best.
Most people browse this page by category, searching for something to fix a problem or need they have. There are plenty of articles showing top 10 extensions for various uses, though if that helps. However, a top 10 list of the past year might not go astray.
I would add the Page Hacker add-on to this list. It is very useful when you want to remove the ads and banners on a page before printing it, thus saving a lot of ink and paper.
Thanks. I checked it out, but it looks like a lot of users find it pretty frustrating to use. Looks great for people who know HTML really well though.
thanks… It’s very useful…
As a bit of a newbie I would be a little afraid of downloading stuff. Is it to the best of your knowledge that these add-ons are safe and virus free? I do like the amount of items you have and thank you kindly for putting them all in catagories like you did.
Like EVERYTHING M.U.O. does, this is AWESOME! Thanks