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Which are the best firefox addons and extensions you should install on your browser? This article tries to list some of the most popular and best firefox addons which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox.
1. Download them All!
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! 2. FireFTP FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. 
Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more! 3. Screengrab! Screengrab! saves webpages as images. It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard. 
It can capture any Java or Flash embedded in a page, but to do this it requires Java to be installed in the browser.
The following little keywords are at the request of those who can't remember the name ScreenGrab! and want searches to work. It takes screen shots, screenshots - that is, shots, of web pages. 4. Speed Dial Speed Dial allows you to direct access to your most visited websites 
With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. To show the Speed Dial tab, use the Speed Dial button (which can be added to the toolbar), or enter "chrome://speeddial/content" in your location bar.
To assign one website to Speed Dial, use the new "Set as Speed Dial" option in the bookmarks menu, or right click on the tab you want to add, and choose "Set as Speed Dial". That option is also available in the contextual area menu.
Speed Dial will be automatically loaded in blank new windows. It can also load in blank new tabs. To configure this, and other options, use the extension settings panel. 5. Gmail Manager Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. 
6. Better YouTube Enhances YouTube with Greasemonkey user scripts, that offer options like the FlowPlayer "doesn't start till you hit play" viewer, clean "theater" view, and links to download the video automatically. 
7. URL Fixer URL Fixer is an addonthat corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type 9softwares.con, it will correct it to 9softwares.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation). 
This addon will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, .pro, .cat, .jobs, .mobi, and .travel, as well as the protocol (http:, https:). By right-clicking on the address bar, you can set it to auto-correct your errors, or you can have it ask you before making any corrections. 8. Video DownloadHelper The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries. 
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item
For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others. 9. Copy Plain Text Have you ever copied something to Thunderbird or Office and been annoyed that the text formatting (bold, font size, etc) came with it? Don't you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text! 
10. 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 choose a filter subscription, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically. 
11. AJAX Yahoo! Mail Preview your messages with a single click. Adds AJAX support to the classic Yahoo! mail. 
Preview your messages without leaving your inbox. Adds a small "plus sign" next to your email list. Click on the "plus sign" to preview the message. Send back messages with a single click using Instant Reply and download any attachment with a single click. 12. Fasterfox Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. 
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included. Locales included for Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. 13. FlashGot Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. The new "FlashGot Media" command grabs video and audio clips while they're playing, too. 
14. NoScript The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks 
Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox.
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, guarding your "trust boundaries" against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attempts, thanks to its unique ClearClick technology. 15. IE Tab This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
16.GreaseMonkey Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at userscripts.org . You can write your own scripts, too. Check out wiki.greasespot.net to get started. 17. PDF Download PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is the leading tool for handling, viewing and creating Web-based PDF files and is enjoyed by millions of Firefox users every day. The browser extension removes the pain you can experience when you encounter PDF files online, reducing browser crashes, speeding up the display of a PDF's content, and letting you convert any (unsecured) Web page into a high-quality PDF that's great for archiving, printing and sharing. 
* Convert Web pages to PDF. (NEW) Convert any (unsecured) Web pages to great looking PDF files, and then save, share, print or archive them. * View PDF as HTML. View the contents of PDF files faster and eliminate browser problems by instantly converting any Web-based PDF to a browser-friendly HTML Web page. * Control PDF files in Firefox. Stop crashes and get the upper hand on Web-based PDF files by automating and controlling how your Firefox or Flock browsers deal with them. * Works in your language. Through the help of our users, PDF Download is now available in 19 languages and counting. 18. CoolPreviews Preview links and images without leaving your current page or tab. Just mouseover any link, and a separate preview window immediately appears to show you the content.  19. AutoPager The AutoPager Firefox extension automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content. 
AutoPager works with a ton of sites, including Lifehacker, of course, Google... Unlike other auto paging scripts, this add-on works well with most other add-ons like adblock plus, WOT and most of the greasemonkey scripts. 20. Firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page... 
Visit the Firebug website for documentation, screen shots, and discussion forums 21. FoxyTunes Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web?
FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.
Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players. 22. United States English Dictionary This addon is a English United States (en-US) spellchecking dictionary! 
This extension packages a subset of the original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell
and Aspell and thus is covered by his original GPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by his BSD license. 23. Brief Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let's you bookmark and tag items with a single click. 
Easily bookmark and tag interesting items. Browse your feeds in a couple of useful ways - view only unread or bookmarked entries, display a single feed or a whole folder, show full items or only headlines. Quickly find a piece of news using the search bar. Let yourself be notified when new items are available and track their number using the status bar. Customize the look of feeds. Use keyboard shortcuts to browse the pile of news faster. Above all, do everything simply and intuitively. 24. eBay Sidebar for Firefox Keep an eye on your eBay trading wherever you are on the web when you install the eBay Companion for Firefox. It’s a free tool built with eBay users in mind that will help you get more out of your buying and selling. 
You’re always securely signed in so you can check out your progress whenever you like. Customize your alerts so you stay on top of your bids. Be told when an auction style format listing you’re bidding on is about to end. 25. ReminderFox ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications. 
26. TwitterFox TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' status on Twitter. 
27. FaviconizeTab This extension adds a new "FaviconizeTab" option to the context menu of the tab. When it is clicked, The width of the tab becomes small up to the size of favicon. It returns to the former size when "FaviconizeTab" is clicked again. 
28. FireGestures A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures. 
You can execute various commands and user scripts with five types of mouse gestures: * Mouse Gestures (Move mouse with holding right-click)
* Wheel Gestures (Scroll wheel with holding right-click)
* Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-click and vice versa)
* Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
* Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar) 29. FoxClocks FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar. 
You can set each clock's colour, or even have a clock change colour during certain hours (perhaps green when it's a good time to Skype your friends in Japan). Too much stuff in your statusbar? Move your clocks to a toolbar, or switch to 'icon' mode and hover over the FoxClocks icon to see your clocks. 30. gTranslate With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text. 
gTranslate is not affiliated with Google in any way. Languages supported: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. 31. Gspace This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. 
The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host. After the installation, you'll get an option called "Gspace" in your "Tools" menu, which opens the GSpace window. It's great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace). 32. Longman English Dictionary Longman English Dictionary is the leading dictionary for learners of English of all ages and levels who want to learn more about English: definition, idioms, examples and more. 
33. Autofill Forms Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut. 
34. Secure Login Secure Login is a login extension for Mozilla Firefox integrated password manager. Its main feature is similar to Opera's (the browser) Wand login. 
35. Bookmark Duplicate Detector It helps you to find and delete duplicates URL already in your Bookmarks.  36. Abduction! Capture an entire web page or part of a web page and save it as an image. 
This addon is useful for showing people bugs in a website, creating snapshots of design progress, or perhaps even creating a gallery of websites. Right click on any web page, frame or iframe, click "Save Page As Image..." and then drag a box around the piece you want to save. Links to other collections of the best Firefox addons: The Best 50 Firefox add-ons for Web-developers! 10 Best Firefox Addons for Designers 25 Most useful Firefox addons for Webmasters and Bloggers 50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Writers 15 Great Flickr Extensions for Firefox 20+ Best Privacy And Security Add Ons For Firefox
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