Firefox Extensions

Here’s a set of Firefox extensions, in no particular order, that I really like and use regularly. I have tried to rate them and give a small description for each extension. You can click on the names and go to Mozilla’s website to get more information on these extensions and download them. Note: Most of these extensions are meant to work for windows only.

FasterFox
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
A set of tweaks to make Firefox run faster

Adblock
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Blocks out advertisements on webpages. Very very useful. Note: This extension makes Firefox crash at times when gmail is opened

Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Updates list of servers to block. It works in conjunction with Adblock

Web Developer
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A must have for anyone into web development. A lot of features and options to make temporary changes to webpages. I have used it to check the changes by CSS and underlying structure and accessibility

Download Statusbar
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Instead of a dialog window popping open separately, now when I start a download, a bar similar to statusbar shows up at the bottom.

Sessionsaver
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Gives options to save the current open windows into a session, open closed tabs and recovers open tabs if Firefox crashes

CustomizeGoogle
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Amongst many things, adds Google Suggest to all the input boxes and gives a variety of options to remove ads and link to other search engines while searching on Google

Tab X
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Instead of a single close button at the end of tab bar, creates a close button for each tab. Some people don’t like it, but once you start using it, it makes life so much more simpler

CuteMenus - Crystal SVG
Rating: 6/10 Status: Disabled
Adds icons to all the different menu items. Mostly for visual enhancements

ReminderFox
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Great extension to create reminders and to-do list. Comes with a lot of options

Bookmarks Synchronizer 3
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Synchronize your bookmarks with a file at a remote location to keep copies of your bookmarks. I use it to synchronize my Bookmarks in Windows and Linux

Screen Grab!
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Captures an image of the document being view with various options. Saves the file in a png format. I use it to keep copies of all the transaction IDs and receipt numbers etc.

Extended Statusbar
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Gives more details such as images on the webpage, size, speed and time taken to open the webpage etc. Similar to what Opera does.

View Formatted Source
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Displays the source for the webpage with HTML tag folding. A lot of options to customize the view of the source as per your needs

Groowe Search Toolbar
Rating: 9/10 Status: Enabled
Amazing search toolbar. The best that I have ever used. A must have.

Tabbrowser Preferences
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Adds itself to the options window. Has a lot options to make the Tabbed Browsing experience just the way you like it.

FlatStyle
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Makes the Firefox menu interface similar to Office XP. It’s mainly for visual enhancement.

IE Tab
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Another great extension. It embeds IE into Firefox. If you haven’t configured Firefox to option embedded wmv files, you can use this plug-in to open them up by first viewing the page in IE.

Sage
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A good feed reader. Opens up as a sidebar.

stumbleupon
Rating: 7/10 Status: Disabled
A good toolbar for those who have a lot of time on their hands. By the click of a button it takes you to a set of user-submitted pages based on the preferences you have set. It can get very very addictive. I have disabled it.

Performancing
Rating: 5/10 Status: Disabled
A Blog Editor that needs a lot of improvement. But still, the whole idea of being able to blog right out Firefox.. Great… Flock is already doing it as it has a blog editor integrated into it… but I like the fact that here I have an option

Crash Recovery
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Recovers the Firefox, as in, opens all the last open tabs with their current history, when Firefox is restarted after a crash

Fission
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
A kewl extension. Shows how much of a page is loaded by converting the address-bar into a progress bar. Again… it is mainly for visual enhancement.

PDF Download
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
When you click on a link to a PDF, you get an option to view as PDF, view as HTML or download it

Disable targets for download
Rating: 7/10 Status: Enabled
Sometimes, when you click on links to download files, Firefox opens a blank page as well. This extension stops it.

ShowIP
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Shows the IP of the site you are viewing and gives options to work with it

Scrapbook
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
A kewl extension to save webpages when you are researching a subject. You just keep saving the pages. It comes with a very good text search tool

HTML Validator
Rating: 6/10 Status: Enabled
Validates HTML pages on the fly as you view them.

FLST
Rating: 6/10 Status: Disabled
Saves the order in which tabs were viewed and accordingly takes you to the last selected tab when another tab is closed. I find this very useful.

Forecastfox
Rating: 7/10 Status: Disabled
Fetches the forecast for your city. I have it disabled as I prefer to goto Yahoo! weather and get the information that I need

FoxyTunes
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Play and control many different applications through Firefox itself

SuperT
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Gives you a lot of options for enhancing Tabbed Browsing experience. I used it for opening my tabs in multiple rows, so that they don’t get too small when I have a lot of them open. Also, I have used it to replace FLST.

UI Tweaker
Rating: 8/10 Status: Enabled
Comes with a lot of options to tweak Firefox UI to just the way you want it. One of the main reasons I use it is for displaying multi row Bookmark Toolbar.

I will probably find sometime and make this into a page so that I can have it in the sidebar at all times.