Most Popular Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your default Browser and you want to increase the performance of it, you must be needing some Add-ons to install. Here we have collected most popular Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, currently hot in the market. Just add these and enjoy surfing.

Readability 1.6 :

Readability is a new Firefox add-on that makes reading web pages simpler and more enjoyable. The system strips the superfluous information and shows the main content in a single column of easy-to-read text. It is also a precious tool for printing the web pages in less.

To use it just click the R icon on Firefox statusbar. Also by right clicking on R icon you can get other Styling Options.

Users can also add a Toolbar button to the navigation toolbox. Just right click on any toolbar button and choose the “Customise” option to drag the icon in toolbox.

ShareThis 4.0.1 :

Join 200 million ShareThis users and start sharing today! Share anything on the web with your friends on 45+ social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more. Track top trending shares by site and automatically save content to ShareBox.

Feedly 5.5 :

Feed your mind. A magazine-like start page based on the best content of your favorite websites. Powered by Google Reader and Twitter.

Amplify 3.0.0 :

Use Amplify to clip, share & spark conversation about excerpts from articles, blog posts, tweets or anything else you read on the web. Amplify supports autoposting to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Posterous, Tumblr & more.

LikeThePage – Facebook Like Any Page! :

Easily share web pages you like with your friends and see how many people on Facebook like the page you are on!

Web mail notifier 2.7.9 :

WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails. You can use multiple accounts in a same host.

Currently supports, Gmail (Gmail & Google Apps), Yahoo (yahoo.com, ymail.com, rocketmail.com, yahoo.co.jp), Hotmail (hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com), AOL (aol.com, aim.com, mail.com), Daum (daum.net, hanmail.net), Naver, Nate (nate.com, empas.com), Paran (paran.com, hanmir.com), POP3/IMAP

FireShot :

If Flash capturing is the one of your main tasks, please try FireShot. A Pro edition of FireShot is available that adds features such as multi-editor IDE, undo, work with clipboard, printing, upload screen shots to ImageShack, Picasa, custom HTTP or FTP server, projects handling. For more information, visit http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/fireshot_pro.php

Similar Web :

Wherever you go on the web, the SimilarWeb sidebar will help you discover related sites. It enhances your browser making it easier, faster and more productive to surf the web. Once Installed, you can choose between sidebar/toolbar or menu button, the sidebar will appears on the side of your screen and shows you small pictures of sites that are similar to the site you are currently viewing. We take all user ratings and suggestions into consideration to improve our results. SimilarWeb is a great research tool which can help you find competitors, free alternatives, popular sites in your interests, and much more.

Customize Google :

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox Add-ons that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.

TV Fox :

TV Add-on for Firefox – Watch TV directly from your Firefox Browser, 2780 Live TV Channels sorted by country & category, the TV-FOX allow you to watch thousands of TV channels freely available on the internet. powered by the biggest and most up to date database.
(Google – Wikipedia – YouTube – Torrent – eBay & Amazon Search engines included).

Forecastfox Weather :

Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com and display them in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.

Stumbleupon :

StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations become!

Speed Dial :

Direct access to your most visited websites.

SkipScreen — Incredible Rapidshare and Megaupload download helper! :

Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more. Try this Firefox Add-ons, or watch a demo at http://www.skipscreen.com. Why click through ad-laden pages and wait for countdowns when your computer can do it for you.

Ani Weather :

AniWeather animates weather information for locations around the world. Here are some highlighted features it provides:

1. Weather information in appealing animations (view a live demo at http://www.aniweather.com)
2. Real time condition update + 5-day forecast
3. Check the weather of over 77,000 locations worldwide
4. Switch locations in one click
5. (US only) A rich set of graphic reports (radar, satellite, alerts, etc.)
6. Link to more detailed views seamlessly
7. Fully customizable to fit your preference (temperature unit, location list, and much more)

Gmail Manager :

The original Gmail notifier for multiple accounts. Allows you to receive new mail notifications along with viewing account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

Cool Previews :

Browse faster — Preview links and images without leaving your current page or tab. Just mouseover any link, and a separate preview window appears to show you the content. (TIP: Mouseover subsequent links while the preview window is still open!)

Reminder Fox :

ReminderFox remembers things so you don’t have to! Remember all of your important dates and events (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) right in your browser without having to run a separate calendar or reminder application.

Read it Later :

Save pages to read later with just one click. When you have time, access your reading list from any computer or phone, even without an internet connection!

Features:

• Save pages to a reading list to read when you have time.
• Offline reading mode lets you read the items you’ve saved for later on the plane, train, or anywhere without an internet connection.
• Sync your list to all of your computers, at work or home.
• Sync your list to Read It Later apps for iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android and more.
• After reading, bookmark pages on your preferred bookmarking service or share them with friends.
• Click to Save Mode lets you quickly batch a reading list just by clicking on interesting links.
• Text view strips away images, ads, and layout from articles and presents them in an easy to consume way.

Youtube Downloader :

If you are watching video on YouTube and you like it. Now you wanted to download it, but don’t know how to do that. So install this Firefox Add-ons and download any YouTube video.

Shorten URL :

Shorten long URL from context menu or toolbar button with your selected URL shortener and display the result in location bar. Supports more than 100 URL shorteners.

My Facebook :

Customize your Facebook as you like, give your friends nicknames, change your friends text color and background.

Reframe It – Post & share comments on any webpage :

Another Firefox Add-ons is Reframe. Reframe It is a commenting tool that lets people connect and share their thoughts online – right next to the topics they care about – anywhere on the web, without the permission of the site owner. And the new Version 2.0 makes this easier than ever.

With Reframe It 2.0, you can connect with friends and strangers as you talk about news, sports, political issues, cool websites, funny pictures, where to find the best deal – anything you can find on the web. Talk about sports teams on their web sites – highlight the scores, drag cool pics into the margin, then leave a public or private comment and share it with your friends through social networks like Twitter and Facebook, or share your comments with friends via e-mail. Reply to each other to start threaded discussions; leave private notes just for yourself or for a few friends to see; check your feeds to keep track of what your friends and groups are saying – all in real time, whenever you want, wherever you are on the web.

Using Reframe It is just like making comments on social networks like Facebook, except you can make comments anywhere on the web, and you can share your comments with anyone. Just open the margin – you’ll see it at the right side of your browser window – whenever you want to make or read comments, then highlight, comment and share. Reframe It supports sharing via Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, FriendFeed, WordPress, RSS, HTML, e-mails and more. Make friends, join groups, be a part of the conversation.

Twit Kit+ :

An extension that adds a Twitter sidebar to your browsing experience! Based on Twitkit.

Function added to Twitkit

• Following and addition of Ann following button
• Addition of user information display button
• It corresponds to RT (informality)
• It corresponds to official RT
• It corresponds to the TL display of official RT
• It corresponds to FireFox3.6
• When the table on the user is displayed, the user’s comment list is acquired at the same time
• Additional message acquisition
• Arrangement change of button
• It corresponds to the informative label of the button
• Display of reply-to
• Correspondence of in-reply-to (reply former message) transmission
• Correction of in-reply-to link
• Reply former message ID display
• Correction of display crumble of option (what from origin is)
• It corresponds to the change of the specification of bit.ly
• Functional improvement of URL shortening. When an upper right box is clicked, URL of the input area is shortened. (In old twitkit, it is shortened that the range of the selection is only URL. )
• The confirmation dialog is displayed at retweet
• It corresponds to movapic
• Retrieval function (Google,Twitter)
• Correction of problem that RT in photograph cannot be done

Smiley Xtra :

Smiley Xtra 5 boldly goes where no smiley has gone before, letting you insert hundreds of thousands of smilies into your forum posts and blogs!

With Smiley Xtra 5, you have easy access to the hundreds of thousands of smilies available on deviantART – and the ability to insert them into your forum posts and blogs. Never again will you be confined to the boring default smilies!

Please Note: Smiley Xtra 5 replaces Smiley Xtra 4, it doesn’t update it. You will need to uninstall Smiley Xtra 4 manually to get rid of it.

Unread Gmail Favicon:

last by not least, another Firefox Add-ons to Display the number of unread messages over a Gmail tab’s favicon. This jetpack watches your Gmail inbox and annotates the favicon for the Gmail tab with the current number of unread messages.

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