There are more than 5,000 Add-ons (little extras that customize Firefox) that you can download to enhance almost any task you can think of.
How to really use Add-ons?
1. Go to Tools → Add-ons
Firefox Addon
2. This will open up the Add-ons Manager
Firefox Add-ons Manager
3. Click on Brows All Add-ons in the upper right corner of Add-ons Manager Window and discover all the ways you can make Firefox your own.
Some helpful add-ons
1. Diigo – Social Bookmarking and Web Annotation
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2792
Diigo.com is an online bookmarking site which also allows you to share those bookmarks. This official Diigo add-on seamlessly integrates your browser with Diigo.com, the next-generation social bookmarking and annotation service on the web. It provides the following enhancements that can make your browsing experience and research process on web much more productive.
- - Add persistent highlights and sticky notes on any webpage
- Save your bookmarks and cache bookmarked pages on the web so you can access them anywhere, anytime
- Organize and search your bookmarks by tags and lists, and by full-text search
- Share your bookmarks with friends and groups, and through twitter, facebook, etc
- Enable you to connect with people who have bookmarked the same page or site
- Easily publish your bookmarks and annotations to blogs
For a product tour and more details about this extension, please visit:
http://help.diigo.com
2. BugMeNot – Bypass compulsory web registration
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information. This add-on allows you to activate the extension by right-clicking on a user name and/or password field of a site that asks for registration. BugMeNot will log in for you automatically using user-submitted passwords.
Features: multiple login attempts, failure reporting, and auto-submittal.
For more information see http://www.bugmenot.com/
3. Stylish – Customize the look and feel of Websites
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at www.userstyles.org , you don’t even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied.
For more information see http://userstyles.org/stylish/help
4. AdBlock Plus – Get rid of annoying Advertizements
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
For more information see http://adblockplus.org/en/
5. Stop Autoplay – Disable the autoplay of the embedded Flash
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765
Disable the autoplay of the embedded music and movie. The users have 2 modes to choose One Disable only the autostart of the embedded media. The users can press the play button of the controller to play it.Two Block the media when loading a page. It will be replaced by a red frame. Press the red frame to load and then play it. This extension can also block Flash media by a customizable blacklist.
For more information see http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/sap/sap-en.html
6. Mouse Gestures Redox – Execute common commands using mouse gestures
Download from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39
This extension allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard…
For more information see http://www.mousegestures.org/
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