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Oct102009
15 Best Firefox 3.5 Add-Ons ever
Red Panda
Probably one of the most touted features of Firefox is its rich collection of add-ons designed to enhance the browsing experience. So here's a list of add-ons that I use and enjoy... and hopefully you readers will too.
By the way these are for version 3.5.3 and up. They may or may not work with older versions.
See them after the break!
- DownloadThemAll! - On a website where you want to download everything? This add-on will do just that!
- Download Sort - This is probably the only reason why I haven't switched from Firefox to another browser. Download sort will automatically save anything when you do the "Save Link As..." or "Save Image" commands to a user-set folder. If you download a lot of things, this is the add-on for you.
- Download Statusbar - Instead of the download window coming up, a statusbar-like gizmo comes up on the bottom of the window displaying what you're downloading and its progress. Useful for keeping track of items at a glance.
- Extended Statusbar - Simply shows more detail, such as images, size of web page, speed that the webpage downloaded at, and time it took to render the page.
- FastDial - You might familiar with this if you've used Opera. Every time you open a new tab, instead of leaving it blank or to your homepage, it opens a page that displays a group of websites that you set. Have a lot of frequently visited websites? Save time by using this add-on!
- FireGestures - Unless you have a multi-button mouse (instead of the usual 3) or you're on a laptop, you might like this. FireGestures can interpret mouse gestures (specialized movements) while you hold the right mouse button down as commands. For example, if you hold the right mouse button and move the mouse left, Firefox will go back a page.
- Fission - Safari's progress meter is located in the address bar. Fission emulates that with customizable options.
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus - If you're like me and you want as much view space as possible, use this. This will hide the titlebar when maximized. It's also handy for making a Chrome-like theme more like Chrome.
- Hide Menubar - Much like the last add-on, this hides the menu bar. You can press ALT to bring it back up. Again, useful for Chrome-like themes.
- Locationbar^2 - Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome have a feature that highlights the parent URL and grays out the rest. Locationbar^2 does that too.
- SkipScreen - Use filesharing websites frequently like Rapidshare or Mega Upload? This add-on will do what it can to avoid the waiting period! Note that you are still subjected to downloading rules and all.
- Statusbar Date() - A simple add-on that displays the date and time on the lower right corner in the statusbar.
- Tabs Mix Plus - Another reason why I haven't switched from Firefox. Tabs Mix Plus not only gives you more options to change the way tabs behave, but also allows for more enhanced functionalities.
- Text Area Resizer & Mover - Another feature of Safari is that you can resize any text box that you use to input things like a blog. This allows that same functionality.
- Video DownloadHelper - This add-on allows you to download almost any streamed video (in FLV or MP4 format) off the internet. Downloads are one at a time by default though, but are queued.
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