10 Useful Firefox Add-ons
Category: Articles, Released: Mar 30, 2008
Description 10 Useful Firefox Add-ons
Perhaps you can find a browser that exceeds the functionality of Firefox. But only when it comes to Firefox without add-ons. If you can not find in Firefox some opportunities, which is implemented in another browser, it almost certainly means that it can be added via add-on. Through supplements, it can be casual surfing safer, to simplify the download files, search for images and perform many other routine tasks. Moreover, add-ons will enable to abandon some applications that you used to enjoy, together with a web browser: FTP to transfer files, read RSS feeds, block advertisements on the web pages - all of this can be done without leaving Firefox.
In this article we encourage you to a set of 10 useful Firefox add-ons.
FireFTP - a full FTP client that can work directly on Firefox window. Upon request of the user, the plug-in window can be opened in a new window or on a separate tab. FireFTP supports work with multiple accounts, their exports and imports, work with IPv6 protocol, encrypted connection using SSL / TLS and can automatically handle all the FTP links that you open in browser.
Using twin interface you can simultaneously navigate to hard drive and FTP server, allocate files which you want to transfer to local or network resource, and copy them. You can choose to display only the contents of the hard disk or server.
FireFTP contains many useful features that will be able to assess the webmaster. For example, can change the access rights to files (CMOD), and to do so in batch mode. You can also edit files directly on the server, without the need for a preliminary copy them onto the hard disk.
Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader) 0.3.2
Change photo and video files - is one of the favorite things many Internet users. The plug fireuploader noticeably simplifies downloading of this content to the various sites. Add-on supports popular resources such as Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Box.net, Facebook, Webshots, OmniDrive and Smugmug. Very handy for any resource that can create multiple accounts and quickly switch between them. For some services maintained even register new accounts straight out of window fireuploader, you can also move quickly to the home page of the service with which you are working at the moment.
Size of a mailbox on Gmail, which has recently increased with greater speed than ever before, raises questions about its use not intended purpose, but as an online repository of files. This idea was successfully realized creators GSpace add-on. Install this plugin and download files in your mailbox in batch mode. You can also download files from the box, as an FTP server.
In GSpace provides several modes of operation. In “Photo” shows the contents of the mailbox only, and the remaining area of the window used for viewing graphic files. In “Player” is convenient to listen to music. By switching to it, you can select audio files that you want to reproduce, and they will be played by Gmail flash-player.
In the Opera browser is a very convenient opportunity related to the downloading of images. To disable downloading of images on a page, do not have to travel long items on the menu - we need only to press a small button on the toolbar. ImgLikeOpera adds similar functionality in Firefox.
Unfortunately, the developers download managers have not always cared about integration with any browsers other than Internet Explorer. Fortunately, Firefox users have the FlashGot, which ensures compatibility this browser with almost any download managers. FlashGot aware of the existence of several dozen managers downloads. Immediately after installation, it verifies their existence in the system and “writes” in their preferences the path to run program.
Perhaps the most unpleasant on the Internet - is advertising, but only if you do not know how to deal with it. Adblock Plus - a valuable extension, which will allow you to forget about pop-up windows, flashing banners and other means of Internet advertising.
Adblock Plus, like any other learning filter, works on the principle: “using it longer - it works better.” If you went to the site and saw the banner, just click on it with the right mouse button and choose Adblock in the context menu that it’s gone and will never appeared again.
It is important to remember that advertising is a sort of user fee to using resource on the Web. It is approximately equal to how you buy newspapers or magazines in shops. Without it, the Internet would have only portal MSN, corporate sites and home pages.
Search Images on Google With a Single Click 1.2
If you are often looking for images on the Internet, it certainly will find useful add-on Search Images on Google With a Single Click. The entire functionality set forth in this plugin, displayed in its title.
You copy a word or phrase on the page and select ‘Search Images’ in the context menu. After that, in a new tab opens a window Google Images site, which highlighted word has been implemented as a query. You need only find the picture and download it.
Despite the fact that Firefox is considered to be much safer browser than Internet Explorer, fully rely on the built-in protection is not allowed. NoScript add-on provide protection against the most common way of exploiting vulnerabilities - through scripting engine on the web pages. NoScript makes it possible to disable Scripts on all pages, except those listed in the “white list”.
Dr.Web anti-virus link checker 1.0.15
The add-on of the well-known anti-virus company Dr.Web serves only one, but a very important function - to verify that the file does not contain any viruses, even before it is loaded on your computer. After installation, the add-on in the context menu introduces a new line Check Dr.Web. Just click on the link, and in a few seconds you will know whether the file is a danger, and can then decide whether to download it.
As you know, the browser can tell a lot about who worked with him. Someone could open Firefox after you, and he will be able to gain access to the history of visited pages, to see what files you have installed and even enter the forum under your name.
To protect themselves from such actions, is to take advantage of the add-on of Distrust. This plugin provides complete removal of all the information which has been added to the browser during the session. In other words, after the browser will be exactly the same condition as when you only run.
Of course, this review could not accommodate all Firefox add-ons, because there are now more than two thousand add-ons to the browser, and their number is constantly growing.
Best way to find the plugins for their own needs - to plunge into a huge archive of additions to site.
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