Top 10 Firefox Add-ons

Firefox has been getting a lot of press in the recent years, and for good reasons. The best features of firefox is that it allows its users to increase its functionality with add-ons, like accessing your email faster or auto-filling forms.

Here are G4F’s top 10 Firefox Add-ons:

1. All-in-One Sidebar
Allow’s you to have a sidebar which can open multiple panels. Rather than independently opening your panels like bookmarks, history, and downloads, have them all conveniently stored on your sidebar.

2. Answers
Don’t know what a word means while browsing a website? Want to know more information about a certain topic? The Answers Add-on allows you to alt-click on the word and instantly, you can read more information about that word/topic from answers.com. Very useful, and saves you from opening a new tab and typing the word.

3. Autofill Forms
It gets annoying to having to keep typing the same old information in any sites - name, address, email, zip… Use this Add-on to let firefox automatically input this in for you.

4.Download Statusbar
Don’t like the clutter that the download sidebar brings? Get this Add-on. It conveniently shows any files being dowloaded in firefox above the statusbar.

5. Distrust
Hide any trace of browsing when distrust is enabled. Do you go on a secret website that no one should know about? Enable distrust while you surf it, and it will erase any trace of the website.

6.Greasemonkey
By far, one of the most useful add-ons, if you know how to use it. You can get an infinite amount of greasemonkey scripts which allow you to customize any webpage. Go on user Userscripts.org to search for scripts for your favorite website.

7. IE Tab
Some websites still don’t fully support Firefox. This add-on makes surfing those sites more conveniently by running them in Internet Explorer mode inside Firefox. You never need to run IE again.

8. Scrapbook
Take notes or save tidbits from web pages easily. Highlight a section from a web site, and capture it with scrapbook. It will even save the web page automatically.
Note: You can even add this to the All-in-one sidebar for easy access.

9. Tiny Menu
Replaces the menu bar (file, edit..) with, well… a tiny menu called “Menu”. When clicked, it shows the full menu bar. This declutters the top of your Firefox toolbar so you can add more tools to it.

10.Smart Bookmarks Bar
The perfect addition to tiny menu. This allows you to have bookmarks on the top toolbar. Most importantly, you can set this to only show the web sites icon, without displaying its full name. This gives you room for many bookmarks, and even folders.