List of Firefox extensions

List of Firefox extensions
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This is a list of some of the many available Firefox extensions, software add-ons designed for Mozilla Firefox based web browsers. Many Firefox extensions work in the SeaMonkey web browser as well.

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Official

ChatZilla

Website Integration

  • AniWeather – displays animated/graphical weather report from weather.com and weather.gov.
  • Forecastfox – displays a summary of weather forecast from AccuWeather.
  • LibX – library catalogues.
  • LinkExtend – offers meta-ratings on site safety, child safety, company ethics, and site traffic. Also shows PageRank, file downloads, etc.
  • SimilarWeb – offers similar sites to the web page the user is browsing.
  • StumbleUpon – allows users to encounter random sites based upon the rating given by stumblers and their interests.

Social Addons

  • WiseStamp – empowers users emails with social profiles and dynamic Email Apps.
  • Shareaholic – makes it easy to access dozens of social media sites.

Google Integration

  • Google Earth – provides full integration of Google Earth into the browser.
  • Google Toolbar – provides features related to Google Search as a toolbar.
  • Googlepedia – shows users Wikipedia articles along with their Google search results.

Wikipedia Integration

  • FastestFox – integrates Wikipedia functionality into Firefox and recommends related articles.
  • Universal Edit Button – notifies user when a web page contains editable content.

Application Integration

  • EPUBReader – read the contents of any ePub book without requiring any additional software.
  • FlashGot – provides download features and integration with a variety of external download managers.
  • FoxyTunes – controls external media players.

Browser Features

Browser Behavior/Navigation

  • Adblock Plus is used for blocking ads via a paired blacklist and whitelist.
  • All-in-One Sidebar – adds enhanced sidebar functionality similar to that found in the Opera web browser.
  • Capture Fox – is a screencast tool which captures the Firefox window as well as the whole screen and records the user's voice.
  • Cooliris – A quick and visually pleasing way to browse photos and videos from the Web or a Desktop
  • Flashblock – prevents Flash content from running without being explicitly started (clicked) or whitelisted.
  • Hyperwords – allows users to select text and perform rich commands, such as instant Wikipedia look-ups, in-page translations and conversions etc.
  • Image Zoom – allows users to change image sizes within the page.
  • Surf Canyon – is a real-time relevance feedback application which provides implicit personalization of search results on several major search engines.
  • Text to Voice or Text to Speech is used for making Firefox speak whatever has been selected from the webpage.
  • Vimperator – makes Firefox feel and behave like the Vim text editor.
  • Zotero – enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the browser.

Bookmarks

  • DéjàClick – enables the user to bookmark a multi-step recording.
  • ScrapBook – adds enhanced scrapbooking, page saving, bookmarking, and notetaking functionality.
  • Xmarks – adds online bookmark and password synchronization, as well as bookmark tagging and suggested sites.

Customization

  • DéjàClick – enables user to record and playback complex web transactions via a free web recorder for Firefox.
  • Greasemonkey – allows users to install user scripts that modify specific web pages.
  • iMacros – a macro recorder for the Firefox web browser.
  • Stylish – allows the user to install custom CSS that can modify specific web pages and XUL application interfaces.

Download Management

  • DownThemAll! – a download manager/accelerator.
  • PDF Download – allows users to customize the handling of PDF files.
  • Video DownloadHelper – used to download videos from sites like Youtube or Metacafe.

Feeds

Language Tools

  • FoxLingo – translates web pages and text using many free online translators and offers other language tools.
  • Rikaichan – a popup Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary.
  • International Sideboard – a keyboard for typing all language (unicode) characters for Firefox.

Privacy/Security

  • Offer Assistant – password management, shopping, and bill pay add-on.
  • LastPass – offers password management, portability and security.
  • NoScript – allows users to control JavaScript and other potentially executable content.
  • WOT: Web of Trust – warns you about risky sites by adding security icons next to search results, email links, as well as Wikipedia.

Tabs

  • Firefox Showcase – shows tabs as thumbnails, to preview, manage and search across them.
  • Tab Mix Plus – provides tabbed browsing enhancements.

Website Development Tools

  • ColorZilla – adds an eye dropper (color reader), color palettes, page zooming, and displays element information.
  • Firebug – allows the debugging, editing, and modifying of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, and JavaScript, and provides other web development tools.
  • FireFTP – is a cross-platform FTP client which provides access to FTP servers.
  • Web Developer – adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.
  • Alexa Toolbar – provides access to SEO data.

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