My Favorite Firefox Add-ons
It’s no secret that I <3 Firefox! One of the greatest aspects of Firefox is the ability to install add-ons to do just about anything and everything a browser can do. As a web designer this functionality is extremely useful to me. I have been able to turn my browser into the ultimate web design assistant that does everything from validate my css to tell me the hex number of a color on the web. So here is a list of my favorite Firefox add-ons... Be sure and let me know if I am missing anything!
Reminder Fox Firefox Add-on
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications. Download here
Capture Fox Firefox Add-on
You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.). Download here
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Firefox Add-on
An extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. These images can be saved in PNG or JPEG format. Using Page Saver, you can capture an entire page or just the visible portion. You can control the image capture process via a wide variety of settings, including the image file name and scale (e.g., save at 50% of original size). Download here
FireFTP Firefox Add-on
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Download here
Fast Video Download Firefox Add-on
Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more. 100% Free! Download here
DownThemAll! Firefox Add-on
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox! Download here
TorrentBar Firefox Add-on
BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files. Download here
Fast Dial Firefox Add-on
Fast Dial replaces blank tabs with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Download here
Greasemonkey Firefox Add-on
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Download here
iMacros for Firefox
Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been dreaming of! ***Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.*** Download here
Blogging Add-ons
WordPress Helper Firefox Add-on
The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools. The extension eases the fast and simple access to develop-relevant pages of the WordPress Codex. So you always have all the necessary help at your fingertips. It’s also possible to search after strings of text that is currently marked. Furthermore it’s possible to easily switch to WordPress backend of current site. More than that, a small Icon indicates wether the currently displayed website makes use of WordPress. Download here
Live Writerfox Firefox Add-on
Windows Live Writer is a new desktop application for composing blog posts to your blog service.
It blogs a page or selected text to Windows Live Writer. To use it you need to have Windows Live Writer installed on your machine. To add the “blog it” toolbar button, right click and customise the toolbar. And drag and drop the Live Writerfox button. Download here
Web Design & Development Firefox Add-ons
MeasureIt Firefox Add-on
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. Download here
Colorzilla Firefox Add-on
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. Download here
Codetch Firefox Add-on
Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf. Download here
Web Developer Firefox Add-on
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Download here
Dust-Me Selectors Firefox Add-on
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered. You can test pages individually, or spider an entire site, and you’ll end up with a profile of which selectors are not used anywhere. Download here
View formatted source Firefox Add-on
Displays formatted and color-coded source and optional CSS information for each element. You can see exactly which CSS rules match for an element. The rules are displayed including file name and line number. The topmost element is that with the highest priority. Download here
JavaScript Debugger Firefox Add-on
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers. Download here
Firebug Firefox Add-on
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Download here
Pixel Perfect Firefox Add-on
Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML. Download here
Link Checker Firefox Add-on
Check the validity of links on any webpage. Download here
YSlow Firefox Add-on
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites. Download here
Window Resizer Firefox Add-on
Resize your browser to various standard resolution sizes. Download here
IE View Firefox Add-on
Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE. Download here
OperaView Firefox Add-on
Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus. Very usefull for web developers. Download here
Social Media Add-ons
Yoono Firefox Add-on
In a single browser sidebar, Yoono users can interact with the best of the Web more than ever before by discovering, communicating, and sharing with friends across multiple networks and platforms all in one place. Users can stop wasting time checking for updates and visiting multiple networks and instead can start enjoying! Download here
Delicious Firefox Add-on
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access. Download here
Digg Firefox Add-on
The Digg Extension for Firefox allows you to interact with Digg (http://www.digg.com) and see information about the web page you are currently viewing while you use Firefox. Download here
StumbleUpon Firefox Add-on
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. Download here
Twitbin Firefox Add-on
Creates a sidebar on your firefox browser to allow you to communicate with twitter.com. Send and receive twitter messages from anywhere on the web. Download here
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your network of business. Download here
MySpace Toolbar for Firefox
Easily navigate MySpace from anywhere on the web. Stay connected to MySpace.com with persistent login. Receive notifications with updating messages. Clean up messy profile pages with the “Simplify” button. Download here
Firefox Universal Uploader Firefox Add-on
This extension allows to upload/download files from your favorite websites using a simple interface. Download here
Fire.fm Firefox Add-on
Fire.fm is your direct access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Listen to music related to your favorite artist, and discover new artists and music in the process. Listen to your friends’ favorite music. Find Last.fm users with musical taste similar to your own. Quickly access your favorite stations by just typing a few letters into the location bar. This is the ultimate add-on for the music junkie. Download here
meebo Firefox Add-on
Instant messaging across all major IM networks built right into Firefox. Download here
Google Add-ons
Gmail Manager Firefox Add-on
Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. Download here
Better Gmail 2 Firefox Add-on
Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more. Download here
Google Toolbar for Firefox
View the Google pagerank of web sites, view backlinks, as well as access to all of Google’s services including, gmail, calendar, etc.Download here
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A cool list of addons to look through, web developer is a must for me and color zilla is a nice extra
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Really nice list. I recently switched from filezilla to fireftp and I’m loving it! So much easier and it doesn’t kick me off every 5 minutes lol.
GButts is also really helpful and a time saver.
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Great list of firefox add-ons! Have you had the chance to play with cooliris and feedly?
Some of the most useful download for Firefox extensions.
That’s one lovely list
) I am big fan of FireFox addons, even for me here are few new. Thanks 
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foxmarks has become a must have for me. http://www.foxmarks.com/
Also, I tihnk there should be another plug-in listed here:: “switch proxy”. It is a very effective tool that will switch between all of the proxy servers in a given list and changes the IP address each time. This toll does have several whitehate uses, not just back hat. I also love the way you can install (or create your own) skins for FireFox. I love the open source movment! Thanks for ther great list!
Great list, couldn’t live without the web developer toolbar
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I use a neet ff plugin that shows blog that have dofollow links. The dofollow movement is a great movement picking up alot of steam.
Cool list of addons. I am very fond of Colorzilla and MeasureIt.
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Hi,
It’s look great to see all the add on of fire fox together, All this is of extreme use. Among all of this Word press & Google toolbar is used frequently by me.
It’s a boon to the Web developer.
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Nice list of add-ons. The one I can not live without is Foxmarks which lets me sync my bookmarks across machines. VERY useful!
Nice to see all ‘em together. these are my favorites also
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Well you know what after reading this post, I had to give Firefox another try. I was an IE user until Chrome came out, but still no option for addons. Thank you!
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Thanks for the great Firefox add-ons, Fast Video Download Firefox Add-on is the best add-on so far that I installed. All I have to do to get youtube videos on my computer is right click and poof!
Thanks again!
Firefox is number one. But if you don’t want to use it from any reason you can use Maxthon. It is great browser with many addons.
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I too love FireFox addons!
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thanks I too love Addons on FireFox!
But this is a great, huge list….
I used only 5 addons
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Hey Dani, thanks for Dust Me and MeasureIt… will definitely be using those. Check out Glue, http://getglue.com/
Thanks for this (fairly comprehensive) list of Firefox add-ons: FireFTP is neat.
Wow! What an amazing list! I’ve heard of the screen capturing add-on! Great share! thx!
What a wonderful article. Ill be using this in my work from now on. thanks again for being there.
Some Firefox plugins do conflicts with one another. It’s best to install them one at a time.
Cool blog, I’m really digging the add-ons!
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Very nice list of add-ons
Thanksss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow thanks for that great post
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This is something anyone can appreciate. Thanks for a great read!
I have been a firefox user for 4 years now and was not aware of some of the useful plug ins. So far, I only have SEO Quake plug in. Thanks for the list.
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Good list, my favorite firefox add-ons: google toolbar, stumble, seoquake
Absolutly fantastic list!
I have some of them that you mention but there are others I was completly unaware of, the torrent one for example is genius!
Many thanks for this fantastic resource, it must have taken you quite a while to create.
Gerry
Good selection of plugins. Many, I use every day
What an interesting post this is. It was a pleasure going through the huge list of firefox add-ons. I personally loved the capture your screen one. I was not aware that there is such a long list of add-ons for firefox. Would love to try all of them.
Thanks for this great list of Firefox add-on. Personally, my Firefox is my favorite browser. Obviously, IE is not even an option, and the other browsers still needs years to catch up to Firefox abilities.
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Great list of Add-ons!
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