One of the most attractive features of the Firefox browser is its customizable architecture.In this post, I want to share with you the 10 Best addons Firefox has to offer. Those you may or may not know about, but can be very useful for everyday web browsing.
All-in-One Sidebar
All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
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Smart Bookmarks Bar
Smart Bookmarks Bar modifies the bookmarks bar to show bookmarks icons only. Bookmark names will be displayed on mouse over. This feature can be deactivated if you just want icons without the rollover effect.
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Cooliris
Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for searching, viewing, and sharing online photos and videos. Its “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, news feeds, sports feeds, and more. Supports Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, DeviantArt, Picasa Web Albums, Yahoo Image Search and much more.
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FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plug-in provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.It’s possible to choose whether you want to capture entire web page or take screenshot of only visible part of the web page.
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Download Statusbar
View and manage downloads from a tidy status bar without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.
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Video Download Helper
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. Just surf the Web as you are used to, when Download Helper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.
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Cool Previews
Cool Previews (formerly Cooliris Previews) is a free browser add-on that lets you preview links and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page, so you can browse the web faster than ever. Simply mouse over your link or our Cool Previews icon, and a preview window instantly appears with your content. No more clicking back and forth!
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DownThemAll!
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want!
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Cookie Swap
Cookie Swap enables you to easily swap all your cookies so that you can be logged in to multiple web e-mail accounts (like Gmail and Yahoo! mail) at the same time and quickly switch between them. Changing your cookies/identity to web e-mail sites (like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc) so that you can quickly look like different users. Nice if you maintain multiple accounts and are tired of logging out and then back in to switch accounts.
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Adblock Plus
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won’t be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.
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