My Firefox Extensions

As in the previous entry “Goodbye Internet Explorer”, I strongly encouraged people to use Firefox for power surfing. By itself, Firefox is a lean and fast browser, and if you want it do more for you and remedy the situation that it lacks some of the functions that we’ve come to take for granted from Microsoft Internet Explorer, the add-on extensions maybe the best choice. They can do loads of tasks, from blocking pop-up ads to see the weather forecast—and even viewing a Web page as if it were in IE.


There are numerous extensions available and the question is where to start. Which extensions are worth downloading and installing? The answer is depending on your own needs. I just share my extensions for your reference here :
Adblock Plus 0.6.1.2
Ads were yesterday!
Adsense Notifier 0.8
Displays your adsense earnings on the statusbar.
All-in-One Gestures 0.17.4
This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
FlashGot 0.5.9.993
Enables single and massive("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external downloadmanagers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD(dozens currently supported, see Extension’s Home Page for details).FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetizefull media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered onseveral pages, for easy and fast "download all".
Forecastfox Enhanced 0.8.5.2
Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
Gmail Notifier 0.5.5.2
A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051122 (strongly recommended!)
Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web!
gTranslate 0.2.7
Translates the selected text via Google Translate.
IE Tab 1.0.8
Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.
LinkChecker 0.4.5
Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today.
ListZilla 0.7
Outputs an alphabetical list of extensions to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
PDF Download 0.6
Allows to choose what you want to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML!
ShowIP 0.7.99.12
Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.
Silver Skin 2.6.6
Your favourite browser with a silver skin (With the Qute icons by Arvid Axelsson)
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 (strongly recommended!)
Tab browsing with an added boost
Web Developer 1.0.2
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
But I think you should’t install lots of extensions, since it will make your Firefox slower.

3 Replies to “My Firefox Extensions”

  1. I really admire your fluency in English. Sincere thanks for yor information in your blog about the new browser Firefox.

  2. 不过插件可以带给我们制造的乐趣。
    一个完全制造好的成品,确实让我感到轻松。
    但是如果能够体验那种自己组装的乐趣的话,我也愿意尝试。

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