The Best of Firefox Extensions 2

Dan Sippy, Jan 14, 2007 1500 hrs IST

Mozilla Firefox has a Herculean following. No wonder, everyone is all game to accessorize their firefox. Today's a mix-bag of extensions combining your suggestions and our research.

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EXPERT REVIEW

Forecastfox

Now this is one crazy extension. I've been saving this one for this article because I didn't want to shove all the crazy ones into the first one.

Forecastfox provides international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com and displays it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension. Too concise? Well, read on.

You can use a US zip-code or you can easily find your town or city by using the built-in search tool. It is unobtrusive and lightweight, yet can be customized to display nearly as much data as the leading desktop weather programs. If you can't find what you are looking for, click the weather icons displayed to open the AccuWeather.com" forecast for your location. A slider, similar to a pop-up notification for all completed downloads, pops up from the bottom right corner of your screen when the current conditions are updated. You can even set what appears in it or disable it.

Forecastfox lets you customize everything, from the number of days to be forecasted, to the content of the tooltips. You can decide whether to see the labels, and you can decide what toolbar to place Forecastfox in.

The profile system lets you easily change between multiple locations. Each profile saves all of its own settings, including the tooltips and labels, the number of days forecasted, and the location of the forecast. There is even a setting that allows you to automatically rotate between the profiles at a given time interval.

To download the extension, click here.

FoxyTunes

Tiny, unobtrusive, customizable, multiplatform - works on MS Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, supports more than 30 media players; will support more players in future versions; automatically finds and displays album covers, music web searches; these are just a few of the features of this amazing extension. FoxyTunes has been praised for its compatibility with almost every player out there and well deserves it.

To know more about the extension, download it.

USER COMMENTS

firefox is good

by babu, warangel, on Dec 22, 2007 10:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

use adblock plus to remove all these annoying ads in between the techtree's gr8 articles

by shebz7, surat, on Jan 18, 2007 10:03 PM, Report abuse Reply

I knew forecastfox would make it here (remember, your mother always told you so)....it's one of the most amazing extensions available..no wonder it's on mozilla's recommended extensions...for the complete list, visit the following url: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/recommended/

by Your mother, Mumbai, on Jan 15, 2007 08:55 PM, Report abuse Reply

by subiet, living in the cybertrance, on Jan 15, 2007 04:10 PM, Report abuse Reply

I'll just keep on trying random sequences of letters untill something works because this word verification thingy does not work on my machine and i'm getting really really really really really pissed off about it.

by biteme, bitemeville, on Jan 15, 2007 12:43 PM, Report abuse Reply

NOScript, Downthemall, Download embeded and videodownloader, extentions back up (FEBE), are all must haves too.

by FirefoxFan, Pune, on Jan 15, 2007 10:57 AM, Report abuse Reply

A very good article. However, the Link for Sage on page 3 had a <br> tag with it, so one has to manually copy paste it into a download manager without the <br> also page 5 does not contain any download links for PDF Download / Adblock Plus

by Gautam, Mumbai, on Jan 15, 2007 10:12 AM, Report abuse Reply

Good collection of extensions. The download links are not active for PDF Download and Adblock Plus. Please take care.

by Rockman, Rockville, on Jan 14, 2007 09:29 PM, Report abuse Reply

Its really very nice to see such great extensions

by Pankaj Gupta, Indore, on Jan 14, 2007 09:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

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