0 11+ Useful Firefox Add-ons & Extensions! Optimize & Customize Your Browsing Experience.

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There's many applications are available in market, but they only fulfills a single purpose of the user. But the great application Mozilla Firefox, it servs a lot. Five years ago on 9th November, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was launched, & with in four days of launch, more than 1 million people downloaded the brand new browser.




Today after the five years, the number has crossed over 330 million users worldwide; almost a quarter of Internet users worldwide. Today Firefox is available with offering more than 7,000 add-ons to help customize the browsing experience.
As said by someone, every one is unique in the world. And we all wants the things by our own needs. From all this add-ons there are some which are really very intresting and really useful. This add-ons has already proven their usefulness.

This time we are narrowing the huge field of available add-ons down to the 11+ best Firefox Add-ons and Extentions.


1, Cooliris




One of the very great and personally one of my favorite add-on is Cooliris. It is a fun also to see the pictures containing pages in a very innovative way.
Cooliris is the 3D wall that will speed up search on Google Images. It loads all the image pages containing pics on a single wall, so you do not needs to go through all the pages one by one. It also supports many sites like youtube, Google Images, Flickr, and more. You can also use it to view photographs from Facebook, Picasa and even from yur own computer. On the infinite 3D wall, you can effortlessly scroll through thousands of images and videos in seconds.
you can visit their official site :: http://www.cooliris.com
Firefox Add-on URL : Cooliris


2, DownThemAll !!



DownThemAll is one of the great tool. it's not a tool you need every day, but really useful when you want it.If you have a fast internet connection, then this is probably going to a must have add-on. DownThemAll is a selective, powerful download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox.It is a add-on that will speed up your download speed. It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it also gives a more reliable control over the download like the pause and resume downloads at any time. Some extra features that it include is that,It can snatch all the images on a page, all the MP3's of a music blog or contained in a web page and much more. Its absolutely freeware and open-source.
Firefox Add-on URL : DownThemAll


3, Xmarks Bookmark and Password Sync.



Foxmarks, Now changed their brand name to Xmarks. If you are using Firefox on multiple computers then really install this extension, create a Xmarks account an just forget about keeping your bookmarks in sync. Xmarks will do rest of that all for you. Xmarks today supports Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (Mac OS). Xmark provides seamless bookmark synchronization between your computers and browsers via their server. and your all data is securely stored and backed up on their servers.
Firefox Add-on URL : Xmarks


4,Auto Copy



This add-on is here in this list because of its fast and easy use. We all used to move from one site to another and serching everytime on Google getting many useful information's. But while saving all this data, the copy and paste process is very tedious. The one having a fair amount of copying, this is the best tool. Auto Copy copies any text that is selected on the web as soon as you select it. You do not needs to press Ctrl+C n for pasting simply just press the middle mouse button rather than Ctrl+V. It is really useful for those who writes, copies and pastes a lot.
Firefox Add-on URL : AutoCopy

5,NASA Night Launch




Now its time for the Theme lovers in our this 11+ add-on list.The NASA Night Launch Theme is one for the NASA freaks and fans. It is a theme for people who like it dark. If you are running a dark desktop then this is for you. it is the theme showing imaginary of the nightlaunch of STS-116 and is complimented by black and grey navigation buttons. It is compatible with a long list of Firefox extensions, including many of the most popular. It really looks great and its already downloaded around 10,150,000+ till today.Firefox Add-on URL : NASA Night Launch


6, Personal Menu




Personal Menu is a next form of the today's menu bars. It shows its great effect while surfing the world wide web and using your favorite browser. It accomplishes the same basic bur with totally great effect. It gives the more space for the webpage to breath. It converts the large menu into a very small tiny manu button at the top of the Firefox window. The whole strip manu is now formed in to a single drop-down menu. The keyboard short cuts gives the great performance. By using them the drop down menu can be changed into its original form at any time for temporary use. It really gives a great effect by providing more space in browser & is great for design site lovers.
Firefox Add-on URL : Personal Menu


7, Fast Dial




This is the List of very useful add-ons and to customize the browser for speedy surfing, so how can we forget this add-on. Fast Dial, also we can say it as a visual bookmarks. Usually we are addicted to some sites which we visit everyday and even every time when we start surfing, like Google for searching everytime and Youtube etc. But every time to type all the URL's in the address bar it’s a very long process, to get the way out of it, here's a cool tool known as Fast Dial. You can add ur favourite sites in it, and it will get shown up when you will start ur browser and also in the new tab. Theres many other customizing options inside its properties option. So now forget about remembering and writing all long URL's jst put it into the fast dial, n that’s all.
Firefox Add-on URL : Fast Dial


8, Personas





Personas is probably one of the very cool and funniest add-on that you could come across for the Firefox. By using the Personas not only you can customize the Firefox and change the look of the your Firefox browser, but it does it so easily with minimal work. Personas are free and easy to install skins for Firefox. You can choose form over 30,000 designs. You can choose from your favorite bands, movies, television series, fashion brands and lot more. It's hard not to spend hours spending around hours for the hottest themes. This is really addictive & fun add-on to stay cool in your life.
Firefox Add-on URL : Personas


9, Tab Mix Plus




Tab Mix Plus is also a very useful tool for the people like me, who are always used to keep on changing their tracks. Remember the browsing experience before tabs..? All those different windows together for different purposes. Tab Mix Plus is good for multi tasking on the web everyday. Tab Mix Plus enhances the Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It controls which links to open in a new tab or in a new window, and super powers Firefox's undo closed tab feature, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combination of opened tabs and windows.
Firefox Add-on URL : Tab Mix Plus

10, Download Statusbar




All of us usually download something from the net every day. Music albums and videos and photographs and magazines etc. And you must have noticed that when you try to download something, a anooying little download box is bound to pop up to greet you. This can really become a bothering when it happens to popup at a bad time. But a big thanks to this Download Statusbar, no longer wil you have the popup box. Instead of all your downloads will show a compact sized statusbar at the bottom of the browser, of which leaves you minimal annoyance, and still leaves you with maximum awareness on their progress. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.
Firefox Add-on URL : Download StatusBar


11, Greasemonkey




Greasemonkey is one of the very popular add-on among those thousands of add-ons. For Firefox changes it requires deeply browser integration or using the extensions. But Greasemonkey allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript's. Greasemonkey does nothing by default when it is installed first, but the whole power there in the Greasemonkey user scripts, developed by JavaScripts. Like if you don’t like to see some posters of labels on any sites or use YouTube to open everytime directly the high quality clips, all this can be possible with the help of different JavaSctipts.
Hundreds of scripts are available now. some sites are very popular for this like http://userscripts.org.
Firefox Add-on URL : Greasemonkey


12, Better Gmail 2





Gmail is one of the good option to choose for the personal mail account. It contains a lot of features and some extra also but silently. Here's a add-on Batter Gmail 2, It's do not gives any revolutionary functionality to the Gmail, but it fixes many questions and makes it some batter.By help of it, you can add useful extra features to Gmail like, hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab and few more. some of the features are listed below.
- Add Row Highlights
- Attachment Icons
- Bottom Post in Reply
- Folders for Gmail
- Hide Chat
- Inbox Count First
- Show Message Details
Firefox Add-on URL : Better Gmail 2


I Hope ya must have liked all this add-ons. This are the most useful add-ons from those all thousands from my point of view, & i think that they are really useful to convert ur firefox browser in to a handy and to optimize it.
Just grab them and share your other Ideas, and your replays here in the comment section.


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