Quick Translator

Igor Gladkov

Quick Translator is a Firefox add on that thanks to it, you can translate dozens of different languages with just one click. To do this you select text, right click on it to display the context menu and select the option to translate. Of course, if you want to translate the entire page, you simply do so without selecting any text. To choose the language for the translation will suffice to change it directly from the program icon in the lower right corner of the browser. Quick Translator is a powerful tool that works very fast, and allow you to understand the content of web pages that you might not normally visit.

Facebook Chat History Manager

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Facebook Chat History Manager is a small complement for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to give your Facebook one of the most interesting qualities of Windows Live Messenger: being able to save the records of your conversations. To use it, you first have to create a special account, that will be the one that allows you to correctly administer all of the records of Facebook chat. Once you have your account, you can look over the record, read conversations or save them on your hard drive. All of that from the very browser and very simply. Facebook Chat History manager is a very interesting tool for any user who likes to use Facebook chat, all said, it is getting larger and larger.

Thumbnail Zoom

Andres Hernandez

Thumbnail Zoom is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox thanks to which we will be able to zoom small images (the classical thumbnails) from different web pages, automatically. This application only works with Facebook, Twitter, Twitpic, Last.fm, Picassa, Flickr, Wikipedia or deviantArt amongst others, and to benefit from it, it will be enough to hover over the image with the pointer. Immediately, the enlarged image will appear just next to it. The add-on options we have, will allow us to deactivate it for a certain webpage, change the opacity of the emerging image or add a white frame to it. Thumbnail Zoom is a good plus for Mozilla Firefox, as it will allow us to see the images from the most popular webpages easier and faster.

Pure Reader for Firefox

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Pure Reader for Firefox is an add-on for this browser that offers a new and simple interface for Google Reader. The new interface is quite sober, with a grey finish and always showing all the available options. It's also very intuitive and lets you access any Google Reader feature with just one click. Pure Reader for Firefox can be very useful if you're a regular user of Google's feed reader, as it offers a new and simple way to read all the news that interests you the most.

Screen Capture Elite

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Screen Capture Elite is an image capture tool for your browser that will let you capture your web surfing moments. You only have to install the add-on and the program will remain in the system tray waiting to be used. When you click it, you can choose the area you want to capture and save it as PNG. However, we think the high point of Screen Capture Elite is that feature that allows you to set up to 10 hotkeys to take different screenshots in different ways depending on the hotkey used. Screen Capture Elite is a good alternative that can stand out from the rest of screen caption tools out there and be placed in the group of the good ones.

F1

Codemasters

F1 is a lite add-on for Firefox that will make easier that task of sharing links with friends through the Internet. The program takes advantage of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter as well as mail services like GMail or Yahoo. F1 can be specially useful if you want to send something to your friends. You'll only have to click the button of the application when you are surfing the website you want to share and decide the way you'll share it.

Find the Best Sites on the Internet

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Find the Best Sites on the Internet is an add-on that lets you quickly access any website related to the one you're visiting at that moment, with just a click. When you install the program, you can choose between displaying just the button or include a toolbar as well, that will let you access all the features more quickly and conveniently. You can easily find websites related to what you're browsing, or see what the top sites are for that topic. You also have the possibility to rate the sites from one to five stars for future reference. Find the Best Sites on the Internet offers a variety of interesting possibilities for its users. You can be completely sure that you'll discover new sites according to your interests, thanks to this program.

Briteclick

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Briteclick is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to search anything in the web in a more comprehensive way when using Firefox. You'll nly have to start typing the word you want to search for in Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, tetc. and click the button appearing above. The window will be divided in two parts and you'll be able to view results in the right side of the screen, without having to move from the tab you were using. Briteclick is the easy way to search anything in the web. You won't have to change tabs to view results and re-check them.

SearchWith

soyapi

SearchWith is an add-on for Firefox that will help you searching for any word you see on any website. You can change settings to search instantaneously on Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, Flickr or a dictionary. By this way, you'll be able to get instant information about any word. It's easy, you only have to right click the word and choose the SearchWith option in the right-click menu. Finally, we have to say that searching for any video on Youtube with a mouse gesture is great.

PageZipper

Paintwhatyoulike

PageZipper is a simple add-on for Mozilla Firefox to merge different pages from the same site, like when a site includes articles that make you click somewhere on the page to keep reading. This way, you can stop clicking 'next' just to move on to the next page of an interesting article, which is so annoying that you sometimes just give up and stop reading the article all together. Thanks to PageZipper, you can combine these pages, one beneath the other, and scroll down to read the whole article. It's super easy and effective.

GrooveShredder

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If you usually listen to music using that outstanding online service called Grooveshark, you'll welcome this add-on for Firefox. GrooveShredder will change the play button for a download button, so you'll only have to search for any track in Grooveshark and play it. When you'll click the play button, it will be downloaded automatically. Of course, if you want Grooveshark to work as usual you'll only have to disable the add-on.

Better Privacy

Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag

Better Privacy significantly improves the privacy of your web-surfing by eliminating the most persistent cookies. Thanks to this little application, you can manually delete all the 'Flash-Cookies' from your computer one by one (if it is your desire to do so), and keep the ones you really want. Better Privacy is an excellent add-on to Mozilla Firefox, which offers its users a safer and more private way of surfing the web. In addition, its configuration options allows you to take advantage of the application, regardless of your knowledge on the topic.

Clear inputs

Munro Entertainment

Clear Inputs is a simple add-on that adds a 'clear' command to the context menu on Mozilla Firefox. This means all you need to do is right-click on a section of text and, without having to select it, you can delete it all with just a click. And that's about it; the add-on doesn't include anything else. Clear Inputs gives you an additional command in the context menu to save you a bit of time every once in a while.

FXChrome

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FXChrome is a small extension for Firefox that simply makes it look like the Google Chrome browser. The program also lets you change the icon in the upper righthand side of the screen to any image you want. Doing this is as easy as following the tutorial found in the extension options. FXChrome is not especially useful, but it might be nice for people who are used to Chrome and have recently switched over to Firefox.

Mar Mod

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Mar Mod is an add-on to optimize and add lots of new features and options to Mozilla Firefox, making it much more versatile and useful. Among the most noteworthy options in the program are the possibility to change the different favicons of the websites you visit, modify the look of the Firefox button, change the location of the status bar, or see the size of a file when you try to download it. In addition, the program can back up your browser information by choosing exactly which elements you wish to save. Passwords, preferences, AdBlock filters, add-ons ... just tick the box and it's done. Mar Mod is one of the most comprehensive add-ons you can install on Firefox. It's not essential, but once you get used to it, it'll be hard to let go.

Muter

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Muter is a Mozilla Firefox plugin that lets you completely mute your browser (and only your browser) with just one click. Once you've installed it, a small green icon will appear on the bottom bar of the browser. Just click this to mute your browser while maintaining the volume on the rest of your computer. To return to normal, click again. You can change between two different icons, and, if you want, you can also set up a keyboard shortcut. That way, to mute your browser, all you have to do is use the shortcut keys. Muter is a very useful plugin since a lot of websites now have advertisements with sound that can be pretty annoying. With this plugin, you can solve this problem quickly and easily.

Video Resumer

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Sometimes you start to watch a YouTube video and you're interrupted by something that you have to attend to right away. If you leave the computer and come back later, you have to search for the video again and find the exact point where you left off. With Video Resumer, you can automatically resume Youtube videos from where you left off. This saves you from having to go back, search for them, and load them again. This application is very practical and can be used with Firefox in order to go back to the point where the video was paused or when you closed your browser so that you can keep watching the videos from there. To install it, you just have to open up the file and it will be incorporated into Firefox automatically.

Ghostery

Ghostery

There is an 'invisible' internet where everything we do online is recorded. If you want to be free from privacy invasion, protect yourself with Ghostery. Ghostery protects you from this 'invisible' web, blocking cookies, web bugs, pixels and beacons placed on pages like Facebook, Google Analytics and all other ad networks, behavioral data providers and web publishers. This useful tool allows you to block scripts from untrustworthy companies, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. In addition to showing you what's going on behind your browsing, Ghostery gives you the opportunity to learn more about the companies monitoring your activity, including links to their privacy policies and opt-out options. Ghostery also includes an optional feature called 'Ghostrank' that sends Ghostery's servers anonymous information about the trackers it finds, allowing us to create a more complete list of detectable elements and helping to create more transparent advertising. Ghostery is built and maintained for its users who are concerned about their privacy online, and for that very reason, use of the program is anonymous, with no signing up or logging in.

No Small Text

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No Small Text is a Mozilla Firefox extension that makes it easier to read texts when the typeface used on a website is too small to read comfortably. This tool allows you easily adjust the font size of any text on any website. You can even set a minimum font size for all of the websites that you open. By doing so, when you access a website where the font size is smaller than the minimum you have set, it will automatically appear using the minimum that you have set. It's the perfect tool to make it easier to read any website.

WOT for Firefox

Against Intuition

WOT (Web of Trust) is a web service developed to help users to be safe when surfing the Internet. It is an add-on for Firefox that will tell you if a website is harmful, safe or probably harmful. In WOT, users are who rate the different websites, so it makes the service to be much better than other arguably services like SiteAdvisor, mainly because its database is updated continuously. WOT is very easy to use, When you search for a certain term through Google, Yahoo, Gmail or Wikipedia you'll see a coloured ring next to the result, the colour of the ring will warn you about that website. Red is dangerous, yellow can be dangerous and green means the website is trusted. WOT takes into account the privacy, children safety, trustworthiness and vendor reliability and you can rate any website at any time. Finally, in case you access a website marked as dangerous, it will show a warning advise.

SpeedyFox

Crystalidea

Right now Mozilla Firefox is one of the most used web browser around the world thanks to its excellent characteristics and innumerable functions. However, when you use it consistently, it may start taking longer and longer to load. The explanation is simple: more and more information is saved to the program database which causes the information to fragment and make it slower. If you have already suffered the consequences of consistently using the browser, you can try SpeedyFox. This tool optimizes the browser in a matter of seconds, accelerating the time it takes to load and avoiding unnecessary waiting times. Try it and experiment how Firefox will load must faster the next time you run it.

FoxyTunes

Alex Sirota

FoxyTunes is an extension for your Mozilla which you will be able to control your media player with. And now it also works in Internet Explorer. It will install an small plugin in the browser from where you will be able to control your music. Play, pause, stop,... the main buttons of all media players. You only have to select your preferred media player and you will be ready to take the control of your music while you surf the web. FoxyTunes will help you. In addition it is skinnable, so FoxyTunes will have the look you like the most.

OutWit Docs

OutWit Technologies

OutWit Docs is a useful Firefox extension developed to help you search for and download text documents online. With it, you can search for any document online or enter its URL to show the full list of existing documents on that page. OutWit Docs can locate any documents in DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, SWF, or PDF format. You can further refine the search by indicating what type of documents you want to locate. After selecting the files you want to keep, OutWit Docs automatically extracts each document and saves it to the hard drive.

Download Youtube As MP4

Arpit Kumar

Download Youtube As MP4 is an add-on for Firefox that, as its name fairly says, allows you to download videos from youtube and convert them into mp4. This add-on is a bit different form the rest of add-ons, because you won't find any new toolbar or button whihle you surf the Internet, but when you access any Youtube video, you'll seea "Download as MP4" link below the 'Embed' option at every YouTube video page. By that way, you can download videos directly from YouTube in high quality MP4 format. Just click that link and the video will be downloaded to the folder you want. The downloaded video will be formatted as mp4, so you'll enjoy high quality and good compression, ready to play on any portable media player: mobile phone, iPod, PSP... If you are a Firefox user and a fan of Youtube videos, Download Youtube As MP4 is a must-have.

FoxTab

Roi M.

If we talk you about Stack, Wall, Grid, Row or Carousel you may know what we are talking about, but if we tell you that they are 3D effects you can apply to the Firefox tab browsing experience, you'll be impressed. FoxTab is a must have add-on for all effect lovers who use Firefox. Not only will give it a new look to your Firefox when changing tabs, but it is really useful because some of the effects, gives you the possibility of viewing all tabs at a glance, so you can change to the one you prefer quickly. Work as usual and change the tabs in a new way. Choose the effect you want to apply and surprise your friends and even yourself. Access the settings panel and adjust the speed, effect, tab positions and sizes... If you usually Firefox and you like 3D effects, download and install FoxTab, it's one of those add-ons that will give your computer a new and amazing look. Enjoy anew way of changing from one tab to the next.

SkipScreen

Skipscreen

Non-Premium users of direct download hosting sites like Megaupload, RapidShare, Mediafire, SendSpace or zShare are used to wait for a while and enter difficult and annoying captchas in order to download any file. It is true that you 'only' have to wait for a few seconds, but we always desire not to wait and download files automatically, sometimes thoose waits are too long. SkipScreen is an add-on for Firefox that will make those waits and captchas disappear. If you install this add-on you can say goodbye to those annoying moments. Click the download link and SkipScreen will skip those unnecessary pages. SkipScreen supports a lot of hosting sites. Here you are a short list: Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Uploaded.to, zShare, Sharebee, DepositFiles, Sendspace, Divshare, Linkbucks, Link-protector...

All-Glass Firefox

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If there is something that identifies Windows Vista/Seven interface, that is transparency and Aero interface which has meant a very interesting advance and what has captivated thousands of users. In Firefox, transparencies are only available in the outside border of the window, far different from Internet Explorer, whose interface is semitransparent. All-Glass Firefox is an add-on for Firefox, based on Glasser which allows you to apply transparencies to the Firefox interface, exactly as you can dexperience when you use IE. Applying transparencies is as easy as install the add-on, restart Firefox and browse the Internet. By this way, All-Glass Firefox becomes an essential add-on for Aero fans.

GUtil

Bogdan Costea

Organize Search Engines

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Fission

Fission Codes

If you've ever used Apple's Safari browser, you might have noticed that it's visually appealing and easy to use. One of its unique features is the progress bar shown in the URL field to display the process of loading a page. Now you can add this unique feature to your Firefox browser, too. Fission is a Mozilla Firefox extension to add a progress bar in the address bar, just like on Safari. There are also a few different options available for your new progress bar, for instance to customize the bar style or add additional loading information to the URL field. For all these reasons, Fission is an attractive Firefox extension worth installing.