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30 Excellent Firefox Add-ons You Must Have

If you are  Firefox fan, the best web browser in the world, than you must take advantage of the some of the greatest add-ons available for free to download.  These add-ons are developed by Firefox Add-ons Community and some of them ask optional donation in order to stay active.

Choose any compatible add-ons for the way you surf on the web, install it just with one click and they are good to go. You’ll get automatic reminders, once they are updated.

Of course, It depends how often and en and how do you use your web, but in this post, you will find some of the best Firefox 3.6 add-on arranged alphabetically, that can be used daily basis, no matter if you are a designer, web developer, social network user, shopper or just a bored person surfing on the internet.

Leave a comment if you have any other suggestions or add-on, you think I missed out in this post.

1. AmazonAssist

Helps you search Amazon.com as you search the web and delivers product information to your browser when you need it

597,723 Total Downloads

AmazonAssist is a Firefox add-on that helps you search Amazon.com as you search the web and delivers product information to your browser when you need it. Access product details, ratings and latest prices from anywhere on the web.\

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2. Addblock plus

Regain control of the internet

91,486,594 Total Downloads

Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Bothered by banners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet and change the way that you view the web.

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3. AniWeather

Animated Weather + Any Weather.

3,629,300 Total Downloads

AniWeather animates weather information for locations around the world.

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4. ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

3,632,584 Total Downloads

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.

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5. Cooliris

Turn Firefox into your ultimate media browser

20,507,488 Total Downloads

Cooliris is a browser plug-in that revolutionizes how you find, view, and share photos and videos. Whether you’re browsing the Web or your desktop, Cooliris presents media on an infinite “3D wall” that lets you enjoy content without clicking page to page.

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6. CoolPreviews

Preview web links, images, and videos without leaving your current page or tab.

11,611,904 Total Downloads

Browse faster — Preview links and images without leaving your current page or tab. Just mouseover any link, and a separate preview window appears to show you the content.

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7. Firebug

Edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page

27,912,702 Total Downloads

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.

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8. FoxTab

3D in your browser! FoxTab brings innovative 3D functionality to your Firefox.

11,360,287 Total Downloads

Access your most favorite sites from the familiar FoxTab interface.

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9. Glue

Find your next favorite movie, book, or music album!

2,888,862 Total Downloads

GetGlue helps you find your next favorite movie, book, or music album. As you visit sites like Amazon, IMDB, and Wikipedia, GetGlue suggest things you’ll like.When you visit popular sites like Amazon, IMDB, and Wikipedia, Glue will appear on the page to show you books, movies and music that you’ll like. Suggestions are based on what you like, what your friends like and what’s popular around the web. The more you use Glue, the better the suggestions.

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10. gTranslate

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

2,129,597 Total Downloads

Translates from/to the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Batalan, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Yiddish.

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11. HTML Validator

Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

2,009,019 Total Downloads

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The extension can validate the HTML sent by the server or the HTML in the memory (after Ajax execution). The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.

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12. iMacros

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

5,878,274 Total Downloads

iMacros was designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button! With iMacros, you can quickly and easily fill out web forms, remember passwords, create a webmail notifier, download information from other sites, scrape the Web (get data from multiple sites), and more. You can keep the macros on your computer for your own use, or share them with others by embedding them on your homepage, blog, company Intranet or any social bookmarking service. The uses are limited only by your imagination!

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13. Image Zoom

Adds zoom and rotation functionality for images.

5,158,410 Total Downloads

Adds zoom and rotation functionality for images

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen. Image Rotation will allow you to rotate an image +90,-90,180 degrees from the context menu. All this control is customizable from the preferences.

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14. ImTranslator

Online Translator performs real-time translation

7,008,286 Total Downloads

ImTranslator includes Online Translator in 1640 language combinations for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese; Spell Checker for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian; TTS (Text to Speech) for English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish; Multilingual Dictionary for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish; Virtual Keyboard for more than 40 languages; Russian Decoder; Interface localization in 11 languages; other multilingual tools.

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15. LightShot

Easy and convenient screenshot tool.

42,056 Total Downloads

Allows you to make screenshots of any selected area, edit and upload it to server. You just hit Lightshot icon on the toolbar or status bar (Alt+T), then select area you want to make a screenshot from and click “Save” or “Upload to server”. In case of uploading you instantly get link to a screenshot you’ve just uploaded.

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16. LinkChecker

Check the validity of links on any webpage.

345,967 Downloads

Toolbar button that can be added for easier access to LinkChecker. Just right click on your toolbar, choose “Customize” and look for the button with the underlined blue check.

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17. Personas Plus

Free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox. Choose from over 60,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter and Bob Marley. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: “What Will My Browser Wear Today?”

25,184,387 Total Downloads

Personas are free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox. Choose from over 60,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter, Bob Marley and Lady Gaga to individualize your browser. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: “What Will My Browser Wear Today?”

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18. Picnik

Add a menu options and a toolbar icon to make importing images into Picnik easier.

1,700,803

This extension adds a menu option when you right click on images to make it easy to pull the image into Picnik for editing.  Firefox 2.0/3.0 users also menu options and a toolbar icon to take screen shots and import them into Picnik.

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19. Read it later

Save pages to read later with just one click. When you have time, access your reading list from any computer or phone, even without an internet connection!

3,154,948 Total Downloads

Save pages to a reading list to read when you have time.
Offline reading mode lets you read the items you’ve saved for later on the plane, train, or anywhere without an internet connection.
Sync your list to all of your computers, at work or home.
Sync your list to Read It Later apps for iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android and more.
After reading, bookmark pages on your preferred bookmarking service or share them with friends.
Click to Save Mode lets you quickly batch a reading list just by clicking on interesting links.
Text view strips away images, ads, and layout from articles and presents them in an easy to consume way

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20. ReminderFox

Remembers things so you don’t have to!

3,377,180 Total Downloads

ReminderFox displays and manages lists of reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarms, right in your browser without the need for a separate calendar program.

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21. ScribeFire

Full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

2,761,195 Total Downloads

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

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22. Shareaholic

Share any web page with your friends right from the page you are on! Post to your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Evernote, Delicious, Digg, and more from one simple all-in-one extension.

1,490,293 Total Downloads

Easiest way to share interesting links using Facebook, Twitter, Google Mail, Reader, Bookmarks, Evernote, Bitly, StumbleUpon, and more… from one simple ALL-IN-ONE add-on. This is the ultimate tool for the link sharing addict!

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23. SiteLauncher

Super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard

383,541 Total Downloads

SiteLauncher is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the ‘Launcher’, followed by a unique key to launch a site.

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24. TinEye

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Adds a right-click menu item that allows you to search for an image to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

991,611 Total Downloads

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye does not typically find similar images; it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.

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25. TVFox

Watch TV directly from your Firefox Browser

2,306,610 Total Downloads

TV Add-on for Firefox – Watch TV directly from your Firefox Browser, 2780 Live TV Channels sorted by country & category, the TV-FOX allow you to watch thousands of TV channels freely available on the internet. powered by the biggest and most up to date database.
(Google – Wikipedia – YouTube – Torrent – eBay & Amazon Search engines included).

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26. Yoono

powerful but easy to use sidebar for Firefox that helps you simplify your online social life by connecting you to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Friendfeed, AIM, Yahoo IM and more…all in one place.

All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use app – it’s the #1 downloaded social networking add-on for Firefox. Get all your updates, update your status and share across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube & more – all at once!

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27. YouTube Video Download

The simplest YouTube Video Downloader for all YouTube Flash sites.

3,445,689 Total Downloads

Supports YouTube’s new layout! YouTube download in a single click.
Download YouTube videos in FLV, 3GP and MP4
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28. Web Developer

Toolbar with various web developer tools

16,586,673 Total Downloads

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

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29. WebMail Notifier

Checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails…
Supports : gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol, daum, naver, nate, paran, POP3/IMAP and more

4,121,826 Total Downloads

You can use multiple accounts in a same host.
Supports:
- Gmail (Gmail & Google Apps)
- Yahoo (yahoo.com, ymail.com, rocketmail.com, yahoo.co.jp)
- Hotmail (hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com)
- AOL (aol.com, aim.com, mail.com)
- Daum (daum.net, hanmail.net)
- Naver
- Nate (nate.com, empas.com)
- Paran (paran.com, hanmir.com)
- POP3/IMAP

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30. WebRank

A toolbar that gives Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast Rank, pages indexed and backlinks in Google, Bing and Yahoo. Bookmark webpages at PickMeWeb.com, view similar websites at SimilarSites.com. Delicious, Digg and Tweet Count.

68,987 Total Downloads

A toolbar that gives you automatically website rank, pages indexed and backlinks in various search engines. Find webpages share count at Twitter, Digg and Delicious using the SocioMeter. You can click on each of the buttons to get in-depth information about the website.