Mozilla Firefox Plugins/Extensions Directory

Posted on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 by Harsh Ajmera

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Networking

Twitterbar: Tweet from your browser’s address bar and share useful links using this add-on.
Webmail Notifier: Get notified about unread emails with this add-on.
Meebo: This add-on lets you put all of your buddy lists in one convenient place in your browser.
FoxLingo: This handy add-on will translate web pages and searches automatically.
Shareaholic: Using Shareaholic, you can easily share urls, twitters, bookmarks, and so much more.
Facebook Toolbar: Supercharge your library’s Facebook experience with this ultraconvenient toolbar.
Digg This!: Digg stories from the right-click menu with this add-on.
StumbleUpon: Browse reviewed sites and share your favorites with this add-on.
ScribeFire: With this blog editing add-on, you can post without ever leaving Firefox.
TinyURL Creator: Create tiny URLs quick and easy using this add-on.
Email This!: Using this add-on, you’ll save time by being able to send highlighted text and links straight from your browser.
WordLearner toolbar: Using this toolbar, you’ll be able to improve your foreign language vocabulary.

Research

Clipmarks: Capture important bits from around the web using Clipmarks.
Google Notebook: Using Google Notebook, you can take notes right in your browser.
Fleck: Fleck allows you to add notes and comments on web pages for yourself and others.
Googlepedia: When you use Googlepedia, every time you search with Google, you’ll see a relevant Wikipedia right alongside your results.
Taboo: If you keep lots of tabs open for reference later, use this add-on that allows you to save them elsewhere.
Endnote: Endnote allows you to easily download a citation from Firefox.
Copy Plain Text: Using this add-on, you can turn all web page text into plain unformatted text.
Yoono: Start a scrapbook of resources, or just see what others have discovered by using this add-on.
Screengrab: Save pages for archiving and sharing with this add-on that will save entire pages or portions of a page as images.
Answers: Get answers as fast as one click using this add-on.
Fireshot: Take snapshots of pages, annotate them, and save them in a number of different formats with this add-on.
Who is this Person?: Using this add-on, you can highlight any name on a web page and find their information on Wikipedia, LinkedIn, IMDB, and lots more.
Surf Canyon Search Engine Assistant: With this add-on, you can find what you’re looking for faster.
Hyperwords for Firefox: Get access to references, searches, conversions, translations, and lots more using Hyperwords.
1-Click Answers: You can click any word to get definitions, facts, and more using this add-on.
Dictionary Search: This add-on looks up selected words in an online dictionary.

Bookmarking

del.icio.us Bookmarks: Put your del.icio.us bookmarks right in your browser with this add-on.
Bookmarks LinkChecker: Find broken links in your bookmarks with this checker.
Zotero: Use Zotero to store citations and notes in Firefox.
Column Bookmarks: This add-on allows you to view your bookmark list in a column and avoid excessive scrolling.
WebMynd: Record your visual browsing history using WebMynd.
Bookmark Duplicate Detector: With this add-on, your bookmarks will be more organized than ever.
Copy URL+: With Copy URL+, you can copy a site’s URL, title, and lots more.
MyPortal: MyPortal will create a page with all of your bookmarks.
Enhanced Bookmark Search: This add-on makes the bookmark search much easier to work with.

Search

CustomizeGoogle: Enhance Google search results with links to Yahoo, MSN, and more, and remove unwanted items like spam using CustomizeGoogle.
GoogleTabs: This add-on will open up the first 10 search results in their own tabs.
Groowe Search Toolbar: This toolbar bundles functions from lots of diferent search engines, including Google, Wikipedia, and del.icio.us.
SEO for Firefox: With this add-on, all of your searches will show Google page rank, age, and more under results.
Add to Search Bar: Put the search functionality of any web page on your browser bar with this add-on.
GoogleEnhancer: GoogleEnhancer offers icons, numbers, and highlighting embedded in Google search results.
Interclue: With this add-on’s tooltip windows, you’ll get extra information, previews, and loads more.
Google Advanced Operations Toolbar: Get shortcuts to some of Google’s advanced search functions with this toolbar.
Googlebar Lite: This search toolbar adds 12 different search types and more.

Supercharged Browsing

FasterFox: Make your Firefox experience faster using this add-on.
Snap Shots for Firefox: Use this add-on to get a preview of any website when you hold your mouse over the link.
IE Tab: Embed Internet Explorer in your Firefox browser using this add-on.
iMacros for Firefox: With this add-on, you can record and replay repetitious work performed on Firefox.
FireGestures: Using FireGestures, you can customize mouse gestures to execute a variety of commands.
SessionSaver: Use Session Saver to make sure you never lose your previous tabs.
PDF Download: Open up PDF documents as HTML and save yourself some time using this add-on.
Faviconize Tab: This add-on reduces your tabs down to favicons so that more will fit.
Flashblock: Keep annoying Flash animations at bay with Flashblock.
BlueOrganizer: This add-on enhances the content of web pages by turning addresses into Google maps links, book reviews into Amazon Wish List entries, and lots of other functions.
Feed Sidebar: Stay on top of your feeds right in your browser using Feed Sidebar.
Snap Links: With Snap Links, you can draw a box around links you’d like to open.
Tab Scope: Using this add-on, you can hover over a tab for a preview of the web page.
Google Preview: See thumbnails of sites you’re looking up in Google search.
DownThemAll!: This download manager and accelerator will supercharge your browsing experience.
Nuke Anything: Hide just about anything via right-click with Nuke Anything.
URL Fixer: If you’re constantly making URL typos, check out this add-on that will fix them for you.

Privacy & Security

NoScript: NoScript will help you prevent JavaScript and other executable content from running without your permission.
Password Exporter: Keep your passwords safe using this add-on.
BlockSite: Prevent yourself from accidentally visiting malicious sites using BlockSite.
Add N Edit Cookies: Add and edit session and saved cookies with this add-on.
Dr. Web Anti-Virus Link Checker: With Dr. Web’s add-on, you can check links for viruses before you visit them.
BugMeNot: Avoid having to register for information with this add-on.
TabRenamizer: Keep your tab titles private using TabRenamizer.
Adblock Plus: Get rid of ads on web pages with Adblock Plus.
SiteAdvisor: Find out if a site is safe or not using SiteAdvisor.
SplitLink: Using SplitLink, you’ll be able to see the true URL you’re visiting.
TrackMeNot: Use TrackMeNot to protect yourself against search data profiling.
FoxyProxy: With FoxyProxy, you’ll enjoy advanced proxy management.
Sxipper: Let Sxipper accurately fill in forms, passwords, and more for you.

Patrons

LibX: LibX allows you to provide library-specific searches right in the Firefox browser.
Glubble Family Edition: With this parental control suite, you can ensure that browsing stays appropriate for elementary school age children.
Print Preview: Cut down on mistakes and wasted paper by letting patrons preview their prints in Firefox.
Public Fox: Make Firefox a public web browser and control preferences, add-ons and other options.
Netcraft Toolbar: Block malicious sites using the Netcraft Toolbar.
Menu Editor: Cut down on toolbar menus that patrons don’t need to use with this add-on.
Greasemonkey: Control the way webpages are presented using Greasemonkey.
WOT: This useful add-on will warn users about risky websites before visiting them.
Image Zoom: Use Image Zoom to make viewing extremely large photos easier for your patrons.

Web Designing

Greasemonkey: is a Firefox addon / extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. Hundreds of scripts are already available for free. And if you’re the tinkerer sort, you can also write your own.
Fasterfox: allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Firebug: is an awesome Firefox Addon for Web Designers and Developers. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse.
Web Developer: addon / extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. After installing the extension there is a ‘Web Developer‘ menu under the ‘Tools’ and context menu of the browser, as well as a new toolbar.
FireFTP: is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
YSlow: analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool.
FirePHP: enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.
FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers.
GridFox: is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. If you can open it in Firefox, you can put a grid on top of it. It’s easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.
FireShot: is a Firefox Addon / Extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.
Screengrab: saves entire webpages as images. It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.
ColorZilla: you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page.
CS Lite: is a lighter, scaled down version of CookieSafe. This Firefox Addon contains less features, but is considerably easier to use.
CSSViewer: is a great Firefox Addon for Web Designers and Developers to learn CSS. When you hover on any element, it will display all CSS styles for that element.
IE Tab: is a great Firefox Addon for Web Designers and Developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
IE NetRenderer: adds buttons, tools menu and contextual menu entries to get a screenshot of the current page.
FEBE: (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox Extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
Xmarks: is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized.
Font Finder: simply highlight a single element (e.g. a paragraph or a strong tag ), right-click and select `Font Finder`, then marvel as the full CSS text styling of the selected element appears.
MeasureIt: is a Useful Firefox Addon for Web Designers. This Addon draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Window Resizer: resize your browser to various standard resolution sizes. It is useful for testing different screen sizes
Palette Grabber: creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page.
Morning Coffee: keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs. This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine.