Most longtime FireFox users will agree that FireFox add-ons completely change your experience on the web. Like the importance of having a reliable hosted exchange provider for your website, these add-ons generally make life easier for you and increase your productivity. Here is a list of must-have add-ons for the average internet user.

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Download Status Bar

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The Download Status bar makes it easy to manage and view your downloads by displaying a bar at the bottom of your browser window. Unlike the download manager that comes with FireFox you don’t need to shuffle between windows.

Scrapbook

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The Scrapbook extension is a great way to keep track of information for researching purposes. You can save a single web page, an entire website or just a snippet of information to your hard drive for offline viewing. You can edit and organize the information to suit you and it also comes with a very handy search feature which allows you to search through what you saved.

IE Tab

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Despite the obvious advantages of having a WC3 compliant website, there are still amateur web designers & programmers out there making websites that only work on Internet Explorer. IE Tab emulates IE7 in a Firefox tab and lets you view sites as if you were using Internet Explorer. This extension is very useful for web developers to test websites on multiple browsers without having to switch between windows.

URL Fixer

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Sometimes our fingers move faster than our brains… and URL Fixer lets us get away with it! Common typos in URLs are automatically fixed so you’re not longer brought to an error page when you type in ‘www.google.ocm’. I think we can all agree that’s basically a good thing.

Grease Monkey

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Grease Monkey is the extension that keeps on giving. There are literally thousands of Grease Monkey scripts out there that modify and enhance many of the most popular websites to suit your needs.

Session Saver

How often have you had 30 tabs open while simultaneously typing a massive blog post when the browser crashes? Well,  now there’s some recourse. Session saver restores Firefox exactly how you left it. Every tab and every letter you wrote prior to the crash is completely restored for you and keeps your information stored and secured, like using hosted CRM software for business management.

Screen Grab

Screen Grab is a fantastic alternative to paid screen capturing software with the added bonus of being less resource intensive! You can take a screenshot of an entire website or select only a portion of the website to save.

StumbleUpon

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One of the most innovative social networking tools available. The StumbleUpon bar brings the web to you via friends & common interests. StumbleUpon offers a personalized social media experience. You tell StumbleUpon what you like and it helps bringing you to new relevant content based on your personal interests.

Firefox Showcase

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Simple but helpful addon that allows you to manage your browser tabs more effectively. Showcase lets you view all your tabs in thumbnails on a single page making it easier to switch back and forth between open pages.

Colorful Tabs

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Colorful Tabs makes helps you navigate between open tabs in FireFox. This is especially useful for sites that don’t have their own favicons.

16 comments

Posted by katie at 10:47 am at 3. June 2009

Looks great list of firefox plugins. I have seen another one with 15 most promising addons here http://www.hurricanesoftwares.com/15-firefox-extensions-you-cant-live-without/

These extensions are making our life easier. Thank you for sharing this.

Posted by Rebo at 11:23 am at 3. June 2009

I’m using most of the plugins in this list. Good job!

Posted by Tim at 11:20 pm at 3. June 2009

I didn’t have 4 of them, but now I do!

Posted by joseorestes at 12:29 am at 4. June 2009

I just love the Colorful Tabs

Posted by J. Ruigrok van der Werven at 7:49 am at 4. June 2009

Why would you need session saver? If you go to the options screen, on the main tab you can set ‘When Firefox starts’ to ‘Show my windows and tabs from last time’. Even if Firefox crashes it will restore everything.

Posted by Jezz at 11:58 am at 4. June 2009

@J. Rui

The option within firefox doesn’t restore text you’ve written in text boxes

Posted by Paul McClean at 12:42 pm at 4. June 2009

IE Tab doesn’t ‘emulate’ an IE7 session, it’s an actual of instance of Internet Explorer running in a Firefox tab. If you don’t have IE on your machine (ie. Mac or Linux user), it won’t work.

Posted by Caig Scott - drive web traffic with mail at 9:02 pm at 15. June 2009

I don’t ge t the screen shot one. Can’t you just use the print screen button on your keyboard?

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