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10 Brilliant Firefox Extensions You Probably Don’t Know About

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Yes, not the usual list with extensions that you’re already using. These are 10 very useful, not-so-popular Firefox extensions that I’m assuming you don’t know.


Snap Links - Download
You must have been in this kind of a situation before: You have to manually click on over tens of links. Time wasted. Save a few seconds and effortlessly open multiple links with Snap Links installed.

snaplinks

Use the right mouse button and drag it over a particular area, the main links get selected and open when the button is released.

Menu Editor - Download
Ok, you have a very customized Firefox installation on your computer. With your favourite addons installed. Tens of them. Each puts something in the right click context menu. That’s clutter, isn’t it? That’s where the Menu Editor extension comes in handy.

menueditor

Using this addon, it’s possible to rearrange items in the right click menu, and even group them together.

HyperWords - Download
One of the best Firefox extensions out there, that probably deserves more praise. It makes every word on web pages interactive. Basically, after you’ve installed this addon, you have a whole bunch of things on your right click menu.

hyperwords

Select a word, right click, see the plethora of options that Hyperwords gives you. Don’t be taken aback. You can locate meanings of a word by just right clicking hovering over a few menu items. Select a word, click, and go to Google’s top search result page for that term. Select, click, do a shopping search. Locate a place in a map by right clicking on the place name. Possibilities are endless.

Reminder Fox - Download
If you spend the whole day inside Firefox, this is for you.

reminderfox

Reminder Fox can be used to set reminders and to-do lists, and can alert you when you have things to do.

Littlefox - Download
This addon is very useful if you have too many things on your Firefox window occupying a lot of space. LittleFox revamps the Firefox interface once installed, makes elements smaller and leaves a lot of room for viewing web pages. Have a look for yourself:

lilfox

Must install if you have more than 3 toolbars floating around in the Firefox Window.

Hide Menu Bar - Download
Does anyone use the Firefox Menu Bar? Buttons on the toolbar do most of the jobs for me, so I rarely take the cursor over to the top to access the menu bar. This extension does a neat job of hiding your Firefox Menu Bar.

menubarhidden

Gain some screen space, hide the menu bar. On those rare occasions when you need to use the menu bar, don’t panic. Just hold the ALT button and the menu bar appears instantly.

PicLens - Download
Makes browsing through pictures a wonderful experience. When you go to a compatible site like Flickr, click on the Piclens icon near the image.

piclens

PicLens transforms the page to a 3D Gallery-Like view. Use your mouse to drag, select and zoom in.

Fission - Download
Used Safari before? Then you might like this addon.

fission

Displays the progress bar inside the address bar - just like you have in Safari.

Tab Effect - Download
Adds 3d Effects to Firefox.

tabeffect

When you switch tabs, a nice 3D cube effect is added.

Tab Scope - Download
Hover over a tab, and you get instant preview of the web page.

tabscope

You can even navigate inside the preview thumbnail - scroll, zoom and open links.

Add more in the comments! - *Images Courtesy: addons.mozilla.org

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58 Responses to “10 Brilliant Firefox Extensions You Probably Don’t Know About”

  1. Amazing list Shankar….
    I am already downloading 5 of them..

  2. Great list buddy!
    Did not know about most of them.
    Trying out a few. Thanks :D

  3. Awesome list………..really loved it !!!!!!!!.

  4. Very helpful list. Thanks.

  5. Excellent list — I’m downloading as we speak. :)

    I’d add a couple, but I have no clue whether everyone already knows about ‘em:

    Copy Plain Text, which lets you remove the formatting of text you snag from a Web page (you can set it as the default) — great if you paste into other programs a lot. (http://mozmonkey.com/copyplaintext/)

    Scrapbook, which lets you save a whole page, a whole site, or just a section of text, including all the original formatting. Great for note-grabbing or saving a site you think might be taken down. (http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/)

  6. Thank you people. Glad you found it useful :)

    @Andrew: The 2nd extension is really brilliant. Thank you for dropping by to leave such a valuable comment.

  7. Cool list buddy, didn’t know all these.

  8. Excellent list. I Got another similar list here: http://goodbutbad.blogspot.com.....refox.html

  9. Can you tell me if using of more firefox addons slows down the mozilla operation.

  10. Guess what! All the 10 listed firefox extensions, I never know before! LOL! Thanks for sharing

  11. @Anil: Wonderful article there. Didn’t know many of them. Stumbled it.
    @TechPavan: Yes, it does slow down the operation. You should take care to uninstall unused extensions once in a while.

  12. Cool list yet again Shankar. Snap Links is worth a test.

  13. @Syahid: Thanks for dropping by. Indeed it’s worth trying, will only make you more productive ;)

  14. Awesome list - i thought I would have known all of them - but I didn’t….going to check them out now:)

  15. You know what ?

    I didn´t know ANY of them!!

    And they´re all very interesting,

    all of them very useful. I´m

    still going to test Fission,

    I have no idea what it is used for,

    and here goes a suggestion:

    it would be more helpful if

    you explained a little more about it.

    Those who´ve never used Safari

    may be those who most need it.

    You´ve done a nice job!

    Thanks!

  16. Thanx Shankar, very useful list.

  17. I tried snaplinks, fission and tab effects before and will surely give others a try as well.
    Thanks for sharing. It’s really a nice list.
    ;-)

  18. I want them, I want them all!!
    Thanx a ton Ganesh!
    Stumbled. =)

  19. The title was so true…I never knew that these existed or atleast for most of the cases…

  20. Thank you. They were all new for me. A few of them look pretty useful, so I’m going to test them.

  21. Oh I really didn’t know there are people without knowing any of these extensions. :)

    Glad to know that you guys found the addons mentioned helpful. Do share this post with your blog readers and send in your pingbacks ;)

  22. Not the typical list of FireFox add-ons. Nice to see someone taking the time to test and write about FireFox add-ons not normally listed. Thanks

  23. Love piclens and Tab Effect. DOwnloading now! :)

  24. I liked the snap links add-on.

  25. Never heard of them before. Looks very useful.

  26. I would like to mention another free Firefox extension: Web of Trust. WOT is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites. The ratings are based on standards of trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. So far WOT has information on 17 million websites, and its continually growing.

    A tiny traffic light style icon appears next to the link after you search on Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, etc, so it alerts you about that site. What I like about it is that it’s people-driven, so I benefit from other people’s experience and knowledge–plus I can add my two cents in there too!

    Check it out. I think you’ll find it useful. (http://www.mywot.com)

  27. Great, thanks :)

  28. ThePagemaster on March 11th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    I prefer Cooliris Previews instead of Hyperwords. Its less complicated, and has this neat little function of showing previews of links.
    Check it out:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207

  29. I will check them 1 by 1 , thanks for don’t know about some of them :)

  30. Just in time buddy! Nice list and I found a few I haven’t seen and will update my list of extensions. :lol:

  31. smashing….mind blowing post.!

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  33. Amazing article, Shankar. After seeing these, makes it switch back to Firefox from Safari. :D

  34. Good ones. Picked up 3.

  35. Thanks you guys again.

    Thanks for the stumbles and diggs, this story went up to Lifehacker :)

  36. These are my favorite ones : )
    Stumble upon.
    Down them all - embedded download manager
    Cricfox- live cricket status
    Datafox-live bsnl tariff status
    Orkut toolbar
    Foxmarks

  37. what about Socialphile Extension for users who like social news websites like DIGG, Stumbleupon and etc?
    http://www.socialphile.com/

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  40. I use Reminder Fox and Fission. That’s a great list buddy.

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  42. Killertechtips! that’s the word for all of your posts. Keep up the good work ! I learn a lot from you ..everytime I talk to you :)

  43. Thanks for this

    Check out my suggestions

    http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/1.....sions.html

    http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/0.....ons-i.html

    Worth also checking what the Firefox community at large reckons is their best add-ons:

    http://zia.blogspot.com/2007/1.....e-are.html

  44. Good job.Thanks for “Tab Scope”. I use it in opera :)

  45. Snap Links is something that I am in need of. Thanks for sharing.

  46. Thanks. Great list, especially PicLens!

    Here are a few others for anyone interested:

    http://jrussellpowell.wordpres.....xtensions/

  47. I like the 3D cube simulator the best!

  48. SRIKAR said “Cricfox- live cricket status”.. i want that extension.. where will i get that extension???
    sattheone[at]gmail[dot]com

  49. WOT is very good…

  50. great list! I use several of these and i’ll have to go check out a few more.

  51. finally, someone who actually came up with an interesting list.

  52. ================
    Great Extensions!!!!
    ================

  53. Wow! I really love the tab effect!

  54. Excellent post buddy, already downloaded 5; Snap Links, Tab effect, Tab scope, Menu editor, and Fission. Haven’t had a chance to test them out yet, will let you know!

  55. Sweet list, a personal favorite of mine though, is the web developer toolbar. As a designer I couldn’t live without it.

  56. Sweet list, a personal favorite of mine though, is the web developer toolbar. As a designer I couldn’t live without it.

  57. Good job

  58. Ad Block Plus, Hit a hint are an absolute must for my FF3!

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