My fav. Firefox Extensions

Wasn’t finding anything interesting to blog on (actually am holding back a couple of posts coz, I feel this isn’t the correct time to post them.). So, I have decided to list my favourite firefox extensions (in order).
P.S: All images are from the Mozilla site. The image on the Faviconize extension is from the Lifehacker site.

1. Download Statusbar – Lets you download files without opening the firefox default download windows. Very helpful as it hastens the starting of the download. It also provides a nice visual representation of the download in progress.

2. Sage – As far as I am concerned this is the best in-browser RSS reader. I have tried a lot of RSS readers from Wizz RSS to Flock’s RSS reader (more on RSS in my next post) to Pluck, but have found this to be the best. It has limited functionality, but is really quick while retrieving feeds and is nice and happily ensconced in the sidebar. Would be really nice if it starts offering online synchronization across systems. Currently, I export the OPML from sage and upload it to my Google reader for usage in other systems.

3. Performancing – This is one of the awesome additions to the firefox addon list. It is easy to install and setting up your blog account is very simple. It has a powerful WYSIWYG editor and a stats package. However, adding a spell checker and better image handling can help this blog editor go a long way. Another issue is that it is slightly difficult to locate the options for tagging etc. But, this is still far easier to use compared to some of the other blog editors that I have used.

4. Tab Mix Plus – Gives a lot of control over the tabbed browsing feature. Has the feature to restore sessions.

5. Yoono – I like this extension for the simple reason that it sits in the sidebar nicely and the suggested sites are also pretty useful. I consider this a pretty useful utility as it requires the minimal attention from my side and sits passively on the sidebar of as a toolbar. No tagging or typing is required from the user perspective.

6. Morning Coffee – This extension comes in handy if you are used to browsing some sites regularly. Put these sites in morning coffee and it loads all of them at once. Basically reduces your work of opening tabs and typing the sites.

7. Faviconize Tab – This is a useful extension if you have a lot of tabs open at a point of time. It shows only the icon for a page thereby reducing the tab size. A keyboard shortcut helps in hastening the process of iconizing the tab.

8. Stumbleupon – Discover new websites (atleast that is the intention). I like this as you will come across a site which is useful with repeated clicking.

9. Showcase – This is similar to Foxpose. However, this gives you the provision to search for any query across all the open tabs.

10. MR Tech Local Install – Provides a lot of control over the extensions and themes. BEWARE, please don’t use this if you are starting to use Firefox. This puts too much power in your hands.

Others I occasionally use:

1. Fleck – Helps with annotations and adding notes on the web. Have been using this for the last few days and am still finding it slightly intrusive.

2. Pageaddict – This shows the time wasted on a website. Pretty useful if you are connected to the net for 24 hrs like me. But, all the time spent on the internet is not wasted time. So, be careful while intrepreting the results.

3. FasterFox – Offers some network tweaks to make Firefox faster.

4. Yourminis – This provides a RSS subscription mechanism to Yourminis from the browser.

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