Post Published on February 20, 2013.
Last Updated on April 28, 2016 by davemackey.
I have a Firefox t-shirt from ohh, so long ago1Yes, I also have a Thunderbird t-shirt from the same time period., I’ve been using Firefox for so many years2Yet, I’m also old enough to remember before there was a Firefox, when IE dominated the landscape, and Netscape was the main alternative browser, but even it had basically died.. Today I’ve compiled a list of add-ons which I believe are useful/interesting for Firefox. I have not used all of these – those that I currently use have a ** by them and those which I have used in the past but am not currently using have a * by them.
I must admit, I’m really thinking about moving from Firefox to Google Chrome entirely. It has taken me a long time – but I’m seriously considering it. Right now the biggest thing that keeps bringing me back to Firefox is its bookmark management – it is easily and significantly superior to that included in Chrome.
It saddens me that at some point Mozilla dropped the ball with Firefox and we all watched as Chrome gained market share and Firefox seemed to be doing nothing. Mozilla seems to be rectifying this situation now – but it may be too late. The addition of a PDF reader to the browser was a slick move, but probably not enough.
Well, I’m not really here to talk about whether Firefox or Chrome is a better browser – that is another topic for another day…
Bookmarks
Speed
Tabs
Commerce
Social Media
Curation/Discovery
- Pearltree
- AddThis*
- StumbleUpon**
- Similar Sites
- Delicious Bookmarks
- SimilarWeb
- Zotero*
- Shareaholic
- Diigo Toolbar**
Security/Ad Blocking
- AdBlock Plus*
- NoScript
- Web of Trust – Safe Surfing*
- Flashblock
- Ghostery
- Better Privacy
- DoNotTrackMe
- LastPass Password Manager**
- BlockSite
- Collusion
- Public Fox
- Censure Block
- ProCon Latte Content Filter
- FoxFilter
- LinkExtend
- Anti-Porn Pro
Downloads
Development
- Firebug*
- Greasemonkey*
- FireFTP*
- WebDeveloper
- ColorZilla*
- JavaScript Debugger
- SQLite Manager*
- MeasureIt*
- DOM Inspector
- YSlow*
- Modify Headers
- Cookies Manager Plus
- Code Burner for Firebug
- JavaScript Deobfuscator
- FlashFirebug
- RESTClient
- FireQuery – Adds JQuery to Firebug.
- WebRank Toolbar
- Alexa Sparky*
- CSS Usage
- FireSSH
- Zemanta*
Translation
Customize
Productivity
Other
- ReloadEvery
- MinimizeToTrayRevived*
- SessionManager
- iMacros for Firefox
- NoSquint
- Lazarus Form Recovery
- Resurrect Pages
Thanks for sharing this nice post.Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers in the world. One reason for its popularity is more than 2.5 million important Firefox add-ons available to users.