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5 Firefox Addons To Check Out If You Browse Inappropriate Sites From Office

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Do you frequently browse social networking sites when you’re at work? Do you also fear getting embarrassed in front of your colleagues or boss for opening inappropriate sites when you really have you be working? Check out these five Firefox extensions that could save you in times of crisis.

1. PanicDownload

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At the press of a hot key, this addon closes all opened tabs and opens a new tab that leads to a web page of your choice (by default, a Google search page for “Increasing Workplace Productivity” is opened but it can be altered). Using another hotkey, the previously opened sites can be restored easily.

2. Page Title EraserDownload

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Using this Firefox addon, you can quickly hide tab titles and also the favicon of any tab or all tabs. Just press the hotkey combo Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H to hide the current tab title.

3. Tab RenamizerDownload

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In just a flash, Tab Renamizer can rename the title of all your inactive tabs with the press of a hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Z) by replacing it with random words. Otherwise, you can manually rename a tab by using the F2 key.

4. Faviconize TabDownload

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Shows only the favicon of the current website on its tab title. Just do a Ctrl+Shift+Alt and click on the tab title to reduce the tab title bar to show only the favicon.

5. Minimize To TrayDownload

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You can use this addon to minimize Firefox to the system tray instead of the taskbar or minimize to the system tray on closing the window. The pity is that this addon doesn’t work in the latest versions of Firefox.

Know of any similar Firefox addons that have saved your privacy in office? Tell us in the comments! Also, make sure that you check out our previous lists of latest and greatest Firefox addons.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am

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  1. Cool Links. I liked the post. Anonymous web surfing is something which i enjoy @office..Sssh ;)

    krishna

    6 Apr 09 at 3:02 pm

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  3. This is awesome.
    Very cool.

    Aravind Jose T.

    6 Apr 09 at 6:57 pm

  4. it was a cool stuff,,,now work and surf tensionfree,,,,,keeep it up…….

    munish luther

    6 Apr 09 at 9:18 pm

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  9. Cool article Shankar.
    I ended up here via SU :)

    Pallab

    14 Sep 09 at 10:18 pm

  10. And if you think any of these will stop you from being busted for browsing these sites, you’re deluding yourself.

    Damo

    1 Nov 09 at 2:51 pm

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