List: My Favorite Firefox Add-ons
Firefox has lots of add-ons that make web browsing more pleasurable. There are many I have not explored, but these are my current favorites:
- Tree Style Tab
- Lets me have the tabs down the left side in a collapsable tree view. Saves screen real estate and makes more tabs readily accessible.
- FireGestures
- I find myself trying to use the same mouse gestures in other tools. I wish I could get this as a desktop add-on.
- AdBlockPlus
- Hides ads: rose-colored glasses for web browsing!
- Firemacs
- Old habits die hard: muscle memory lasting longer than other types.
- DownThemAll!
- Nice if you are trying to grab several large files at once.
- FireBug
- Great for figuring out why web pages don’t work.
- Locationbar2
- Adds some capability to the address field.
- Searchbar Autosizer
- Makes the search field big when you use it.
- Xmarks
- Keeps bookmarks synced between machines. I appreciate it when I move into a new computer.
- KeeFox
- Integrates the KeePass password manager with Firefox. Now I feel at least a little bit more secure.
- Disconnect
- Makes me feel like I’m not being tracked quite so much, but it breaks some Google things, so I have to turn off the Google blocking for Google Maps or logging in to a Google account.
- Linkification
- Currently disabled. Hasn’t kept up with the Firefox release cycle.
You can get add-ons for Firefox by typing about:addons in your Firefox browser’s address field.