I love Firefox as browser and the main reason being the addons that extend the functionality of the browser to great extent. You can achieve so many things with addons that it is not possible to do the same with IE. Chrome realized this quickly and they opened up the browser for developers to put together Extensions (chrome’s name for addons).
I want to share with you my top 10 Firefox addons in this 2 part series.
We store our favorite on our browser by bookmarking the url, but what happens when you have 2 different computers, one at home and one at office or what happens when you are travelling, your computer stopped working and you need to send urgent communication after accessing few sites.
XMarks solves this problem for you; they have plugin/addon/extension for IE, Firefox and Chrome. They store your bookmarks on their server, in your members area and once you start our browser, it will connect their server and synchronize bookmarks to ensure that it’s up-to-date.
Do you also hate those pesky banner ads that appear on all sites you visit? Do you wish that Google Ads wouldn’t interrupt while you are reading an interesting blog post? There is a very efficient solution available.
AdBlock Plus plugin allows you to block all ads. It reformats the pages that you are viewing after blocking/hiding all ads for your easier viewing. It allows you to browse faster without those irritating banner ads.
What do you do when there are multiple links on a page and you want to download all of them? You click individual link and then download one after the other, wouldn’t it be good if you can click the link once and it can download everything for you automatically.
Flashgot allows you to do that, it’s actually a link between your page and the download manager installed on your computer. It can fetch one link for download or you click an option of selecting all links for download. Just click the option once an it will queue all downloadable files in your favorite download manager. Wasn’t that simple.
Do you work with different geographies? I do, and at times it becomes really difficult to remember time zone. Rather than going to timeanddate.com every time I want to check the time at specific place, I have a nifty little addon that resides in left bottom corner of my favorite browser.
FoxClocks allow you to add different cities and it will display the time directly on your browser bottom bar, or you can keep it in collapsed state and it will display the time of various cities upon mouse over.
We start our mornings with print newspaper, and there are some of us who start mornings with online news, by visiting different sites and blogs to find out if there is any news posted. Would you like to visit one page, instead of visiting 10 different pages and know what’s latest on your favorite sites?
Feedly helps you to do that. It allows you to magazine style page where you have added feed of all pages you frequently visit, it fetches latest updates on those sites and displays summary for your viewing in magazine style format. You can click the link if you find summary interesting and visit the site for more details. I find it very handy to track latest happenings on different blogs. It also integrates with Google Reader, Twitter, YouTube and Amazon.
So, there you are with the 5 plug-ins that will allow you to extend the power of Firefox for your personal usage, in Part 2 of this series we will see how you can expand it for online marketing.
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My Top 10 Firefox Addons – Part 1
I love Firefox as browser and the main reason being the addons that extend the functionality of the browser to great extent. You can achieve so many things with addons that it is not possible to do the same with IE. Chrome realized this quickly and they opened up the browser for developers to put together Extensions (chrome’s name for addons).
I want to share with you my top 10 Firefox addons in this 2 part series.
XMarks
We store our favorite on our browser by bookmarking the url, but what happens when you have 2 different computers, one at home and one at office or what happens when you are travelling, your computer stopped working and you need to send urgent communication after accessing few sites.
XMarks solves this problem for you; they have plugin/addon/extension for IE, Firefox and Chrome. They store your bookmarks on their server, in your members area and once you start our browser, it will connect their server and synchronize bookmarks to ensure that it’s up-to-date.
AdBlock Plus
Do you also hate those pesky banner ads that appear on all sites you visit? Do you wish that Google Ads wouldn’t interrupt while you are reading an interesting blog post? There is a very efficient solution available.
AdBlock Plus plugin allows you to block all ads. It reformats the pages that you are viewing after blocking/hiding all ads for your easier viewing. It allows you to browse faster without those irritating banner ads.
Flashgot
What do you do when there are multiple links on a page and you want to download all of them? You click individual link and then download one after the other, wouldn’t it be good if you can click the link once and it can download everything for you automatically.
Flashgot allows you to do that, it’s actually a link between your page and the download manager installed on your computer. It can fetch one link for download or you click an option of selecting all links for download. Just click the option once an it will queue all downloadable files in your favorite download manager. Wasn’t that simple.
FoxClocks
Do you work with different geographies? I do, and at times it becomes really difficult to remember time zone. Rather than going to timeanddate.com every time I want to check the time at specific place, I have a nifty little addon that resides in left bottom corner of my favorite browser.
FoxClocks allow you to add different cities and it will display the time directly on your browser bottom bar, or you can keep it in collapsed state and it will display the time of various cities upon mouse over.
Feedly
We start our mornings with print newspaper, and there are some of us who start mornings with online news, by visiting different sites and blogs to find out if there is any news posted. Would you like to visit one page, instead of visiting 10 different pages and know what’s latest on your favorite sites?
Feedly helps you to do that. It allows you to magazine style page where you have added feed of all pages you frequently visit, it fetches latest updates on those sites and displays summary for your viewing in magazine style format. You can click the link if you find summary interesting and visit the site for more details. I find it very handy to track latest happenings on different blogs. It also integrates with Google Reader, Twitter, YouTube and Amazon.
So, there you are with the 5 plug-ins that will allow you to extend the power of Firefox for your personal usage, in Part 2 of this series we will see how you can expand it for online marketing.
Enjoy this post? Leave a comment below and add to the discussion. Thanks!No related posts.