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

PDF Download

PDF Download is a Firefox extension that solves the problems everyone has about handling PDF files with Firefox. PDF Download is not a PDF plugin: you still need to have Adobe or the FoxIt PDF plugin if you want to open a PDF inside Firefox.

This extension is useful for example when you don't know the size of the pdf file you want to view. In this case, if you load the pdf file directly in your browser you need to wait for a lot of time in order to load Adobe or whatever PDF plug-in, download the file, and then view the file. Using PDF Download, instead, you can see the file size in the dialog box that appears just after you click on a PDF link and then choose to download the file, open it, or to view it as an HTML page.

Click here to download the extension.

Adblock Plus

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. Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Or click Adblock Plus icon in the toolbar to see all elements of the page and block the banners. You can use filters with wildcards or even regular expressions to block complete banner factories.

This extension is a must for your browser. Websites open faster than before. And no ads seriously.

For a must-have download like this, click here.

Well this is, as I stated before, an amazing line-up of extensions (hope you all agree with me.) There will most likely be a third article to compile any other worthy extensions; so, if you feel you know of any other extension worth mentioning, please do so.

USER COMMENTS

firefox is good

by ritu, Guwahati, on Jan 30, 2009 08:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

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