I Make Use Of: Firefox Add-on Edition

Simple and alphabetical list of the Firefox Add-ons I use on a daily basis…

  • Adsense Notifier – Displays your Google Adsense Statistics with easily configurable displays
  • AI Roboform Toolbar – I Love and use Roboform, saves my passwords and syncs between Firefox and IE, saving me some hassle (only complaint is it’s not easily sync-able over the Internet)
  • All-in-One Sidebar – Simple, easy interface for everything Firefox in Sidebar form…
  • FasterFox – Does it really work? Perhaps, either way, it’s always up and active. Supposedly, through several “one click” options, you can speed up Firefox
  • FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) - Quick and Easy Firefox backup for your extensions, user preferences, passwords, etcetera. All configurable and easily schedule the backups.
  • Firebug – Development Tool for monitoring, editing and debugging CSS, HTML and JavaScript LIVE on any web page.
  • Forecast Fox (Enhanced) – I’m a weather dork and radar is the best way to check if precipitation is coming. This updated version has great large radar maps.
  • Google Toolbar – Not really an “add-on”, but it’s an essential…
  • Minimize To Tray – I Love the ability to minimize any program and keep it running into my system tray. Simple configurable options too.
  • ScreenGrab! – This tool has come in handy countless times, right click the screen and you can Save OR Copy “Complete Page”, “Viewable Portion” or “Selection” in PNG or JPEG format
  • StumbleUpon Toolbar – Love it, Stumble It, Enjoy It

So, That’s it, I don’t use AdBlockers or GreaseMonkey, I like to keep it simple. If there is something so amazing out there, please do feel free to let me know…

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Adam Hirsch

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  • http://www.allmyfaves.com/blog/ Roy

    FaviconizeTab is a great space saver. If you use minimize to tray you will love this one.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3780

  • http://www.myownsite.us Bill

    I actually have bundled some of the ones I prefer to use into a Better Browsing extension available at my freeware site http://www.missingbytes.net but some others I’d recommend are http://www.downthemall.net, http://flashblock.mozdev.org, http://clav.mozdev.org (goup), http://ietab.mozdev.org, http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification, http://pasteandgo2.mozdev.org, http://tmp.garyr.net (tab mix plus)

  • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

    Nice collection. :-)
    Never heard of ScreenGrab before, but sounds like a good add on. I am off to give it a try …

  • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

    In addition to my previous comment:
    Another cool extension is colorful tabs, it colorizes tabs in various colors which makes them standout. Love it.

  • http://iateapie.net tanya

    FireFTP is also a really good extension for webmasters.

  • surfmadpig

    FEBE just completely messed up my firefox.. although it did backup my selected settings, it deleted all my extensions, themes and bookmarks afterwards… had to re-install everything from its backup folder. i wouldn’t recommend it at all.

  • http://www.awflasher.com/blog/ awflasher

    Oh! Man, exactly like what I am using .
    But just as surfmadpig said, FEBE sometimes sucks, I don’t know why.
    Faster Fox seems not very good, due to some posts I saw on Digg, for its big cost on computer resources.
    BTW, any good idea to cut down the RAM cost of FF ?
    I think it’s the only disadvantage of FF and it really troubles me too much :(

  • Neil

    NoScript is very useful as a security aid. CopyPlainText saves time when you are copying text from a web page.

  • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

    @tanya
    FireFTP is really heavy on memory I recommend switching to normal FTP program.

    @awflasher
    Check out my article on Optimizing Firefox

  • http://www.thefattytalks.com Adam Hirsch

    Thanks Roy, FaviconizeTab is great. And thanks AWFlasher, after reading Mark’s article on MozBackup, I definitely switched on over… Just in case.

  • Suman

    I downloaded German dictionary add-on from firefox (ver: 2.0.0.12), but could not see it on my tool bar and did not use it.
    Can somebody help?

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  • http://www.sendetiklat.com Adam

    I think firebug is like a magic for web developers. Every webmaster use firefox and firebug i think.