I have mentioned that Mozilla Firefox leads in the race of top browsers due to the availability of huge number of free high quality addons . So without wasting much of the time ,Let us first understand what an Addon is? and finally we’ll look at some of the best Firefox addons that will not only improve your browsing experience but also reduce your work a bit .
What are Addons in FireFox?
Addons are nothing but small pieces of code written to add new features to Firefox. Addons can be installed (from Firefox’s website) at just a single click and restart of the browser.
List of Best FireFox addons that will improve your browsing experiences :-
- AdBlock Plus: - Advertisements on a web page can be frustrating sometimes and you may want to block them. Blocking advertisements can be easily done on Firefox through Adblock Plus Addon that has the capability to block any kind of an advertisement on a web page.
- Print Edit: - In my perspective ,this is one of the most useful Firefox addon developed till date. It allows you to edit the web page you want to print easily without opening third party applications like Microsoft Word, OppenOffice Word …etc. You can remove or add whatever you want in the webpage you want to print. Isn’t this great?
- FVD Speed Dial with Online Sync :- Voted by many other sites as a best Speed Dialer for Mozilla Firefox , FVD Speed Dialer empowers the Firefox with features like Most Visited Sites, User Made Dials, ability to Sync from a website to your computer and it allows you to customize its Look and Feels too .
- Downlaod Flash and Video :- Allows you to download any flash , video (YouTube Videos ,Facebook Videos…etc) files from the webpage you want . This addon can be used as an alternative for a software/video downloader on your computer/Laptop .
- NoScript Security Suite :- Blocks XSS,CSRF,Clickjacking content on the webpage that you visit .With NoScript Security suite , you have the control to execute the scripts from the webpage .. If you think that the site you visited is trusted then you can allow the browser to execute the script else make the browser block it .
- GTranslate :- With GTranslate , you can translate the selected text from the webpage by right clicking on the selected text and choosing a language of your choice . This addon makes use of Google Translate to transale the texts in a language of your choice .
- TinyURL Generator: - Allows you to generate a Tiny URL’s (Shortened URL) for sharing with others at just a single click of your mouse. This saves your time as you won’t have to open Tiny URL generator’s website to shorten an URL.
- Faster Fox:- It tweaks Firefox’s settings to improve your browsing speed .
- FEBE Backup:- creates an installer (in .xpi) for all the addons that you have added to Firefox … so that you can reinstall all the addons at just few clicks. This is useful when your O.S/ Firefox crashed and for recovering from the crash you re-install the O.S/Firefox
- Thumbnail zoom: - Zooms images on a webpage when you hover over the image.
So when would you be trying them out ?