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Origins and lineage 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.
Contents
Official
ChatZilla
- ChatZilla – a full-fledged Internet Relay Chat client that works inside Firefox.
- Breakpad – reports any crashes of Firefox to Mozilla.
- DOM Inspector – for web developers. It allows them to inspect the Document Object Model tree of any page.
- Venkman – a JavaScript debugger for web developers.
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
- 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
- Morning Coffee – a news displayer.
- Operator – parses microformats.
- Sage – a popular, lightweight Feed reader extension.
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.
External links
Categories:- Mozilla add-ons
- Firefox add-ons
- Lists of software add-ons
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