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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Mozilla Firefox has a Herculean following; I am sure, no would differ. Once you get your hands on something like that it's only human to feel wanting for more. No wonder, everyone is all game to accessorize their firefox.

In the last feature, we glanced at some of the extensions for the same. Today's yet another mix-bag of extensions combining your feedback, suggestions, and our research.

Let's kick-start the useful line-up.

del.icio.us Bookmarks

This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (link), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. It does this by replacing the default bookmarking functionality in Firefox with a new experience that offers advantages such as:

Search and browse your bookmarks
Access your bookmarks from any computer at any time
Keep your bookmarks organized with tags
Share your bookmarks with friends or anyone on the Web
Import your existing Firefox bookmarks

I don't think I need to say more about this extension. Just keep it in mind that if you are a user of Google Browser Sync or Foxmarks, del.icio.us Bookmarks currently conflict with these extensions and will therefore prompt you to disable them during installation. Overall, it is a great extension to add to your browser.

To download the extension, click here.

Download Statusbar

Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.

Its features are listed below:

Auto-hide when not in use

Single-click pause and resume

Pause all, Resume all, Cancel all, and Remove all finished - available from the context menu of the bar itself

Run a completed file by double-clicking on the finished box. Open containing folder, remove, and rename from the context menu

In-line view of percent done, speed in KB/sec, KB downloaded so far, and remaining time, can be customized in the options.

Updating tooltip provides a more detailed view of the current download, including source, destination, size of the download, and the remaining time.

Option to automatically clear files after a specified number of seconds

Copy source URL from the context menu

Stop downloads and save them for the next browser session

Delete a file from your system from the context menu

Localized strings for translation

Download history can be viewed and configured to only keep the last download items

Option to start virus scanner when a download completes

After closing browser, option to continue downloads in download manager

To download the extension, click here.

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