List of Firefox extensions

This is a list of some of the many available Firefox extensions, or software add-ons designed for Mozilla Firefox-based web browsers. Many Firefox extensions work in the SeaMonkey web browser as well as the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Official

ChatZilla

• ChatZilla – a full-fledged Internet Relay Chat client that works inside Firefox.
• DOM Inspector – for web developers. It allows them to inspect the Document Object Model tree of any page.
• Venkman – a JavaScript debugger for web developers.

Website integration

• AniWeather – displays animated/graphical weather report from weather.com and weather.gov.
• Forecastfox Weather – displays a summary of weather forecast from AccuWeather.
• LibX – library catalogues.
• StumbleUpon – allows users to encounter random sites based upon the rating given by stumblers and their interests.

Social addons

• WiseStamp – empowers users' emails with social profiles and dynamic Email Apps.

Google integration

• Google Earth – provides full integration of Google Earth into the browser.
• Google Toolbar – provides features related to Google Search as a toolbar.
• Googlepedia – shows users Wikipedia articles along with their Google search results.

Wikipedia integration

• FastestFox – integrates Wikipedia functionality into Firefox and recommends related articles.
• Universal Edit Button – notifies user when a web page contains editable content.

Application integration

• FlashGot – provides download features and integration with a variety of external download managers.
• FoxyTunes – controls external media players.

Browser features

Browser behavior/navigation

• All-in-One Sidebar – adds enhanced sidebar functionality similar to that found in the Opera web browser.
• Automatik Text Reader – a multi-language text-to-speech plug-in for Firefox.
• Capture Fox – is a screencast tool which captures the Firefox window as well as the whole screen and records the user's voice.
• Cooliris – a tool for browsing photos and videos from the web or a desktop.
• Flashblock – prevents Flash content from running without being explicitly started (clicked) or whitelisted.
• Hyperwords – allows users to select text and perform rich commands, such as instant Wikipedia look-ups, in-page translations, conversions, etc.
• Image Zoom – allows users to change image sizes within the page.
• Lightbeam – displays third party tracking cookies placed on the user's computer while visiting various websites with graph.
• Pentadactyl and Vimperator – make Firefox feel and behave like the Vim text editor.
• Surf Canyon – is a real-time relevance feedback application which provides implicit personalization of search results on several major search engines.
• Turn Off the Lights – is used to obscure or mask content other than a running video (context cosmetics to enhance user experience or UX or QoE, i.e., quality of experience.)
• Zotero – enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the browser.

Bookmarks

• ScrapBook – adds enhanced scrapbooking, page saving, bookmarking, and notetaking functionality.
• Xmarks Sync – adds online bookmark and password synchronization, as well as bookmark tagging and suggested sites.
• O'Notes – adds notetaking functionality, as well as note text, page URL, images, video, audio and field values.

Customization

• DéjàClick – enables user to record and playback complex web transactions via a free web recorder for Firefox.
• Greasemonkey – allows users to install user scripts that modify specific web pages.
• iMacros – a macro recorder for the Firefox web browser.
• Stylish – allows the user to install custom CSS that can modify specific web pages and XUL application interfaces.

Download management

• DownThemAll! – a download manager/accelerator.
• Video DownloadHelper – used to download videos from sites like YouTube or Metacafe.

Feeds

• Morning Coffee – a news displayer.
• Operator – parses microformats.
• Sage – a lightweight feed reader extension.

Language tools

• Tong Wen Tang, converts web pages into Traditional or Simplified Chinese characters for Chinese-language users.

Privacy/security

• Adblock Plus – is used for blocking ads via a paired blacklist and whitelist.
• Firefox Environment Backup Extension – (also known as FEBE) - Backup and restore extensions, themes, usernames/passwords, bookmarks, browser history and more.
• Ghostery, Disconnect^[1] and AdBlock Edge – advertisement networks and spy cookies blocking; forks of AdBlock Plus
• HTTPS Everywhere – automatically switches to HTTP Secure whenever possible.
• LastPass, 1Password – offers password management, portability and security.
• GNU LibreJS - a browser add-on (part of GNU IceCat browser) that detects and blocks non-free and non-trivial JavaScript.
• NoScript – allows users to control JavaScript and other potentially executable content.
• Privacy Badger – blocks canvas fingerprinting and blocks advertisements and tracking cookies that do not respect the Do Not Track setting in a user's web browser.
• uBlock – a free, cross-platform browser extension for content-filtering, including ad-blocking.
• WOT Services – shows its users the reputations of websites and adds security icons next to search results, email links, as well as Wikipedia.

Some plug-ins mentioned in other categories at this page (such as AdBlock/AdBlock Plus) will also increase security.^[2] Also, Tor, Torbutton, and Torlauncher aren't mentioned as they are not simply plugins for Firefox but instead only work on modified Firefox versions^[3] Besides these add-ons, changing settings in Firefox-Preferences and in about:config also will help with privacy and security.

Tabs

• Showcase – shows tabs as thumbnails, to preview, manage and search across them.
• Tab Mix Plus – provides tabbed browsing enhancements.
• Tree Style Tab - provides vertical tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer.

Website development tools

• jQuery – cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
• Alexa Toolbar – provides access to SEO data.
• ColorZilla – adds an eye dropper (color reader), color palettes, page zooming, and displays element information.
• Firebug – allows the debugging, editing, and modifying of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, and JavaScript, and provides other web development tools.
• FireFTP – is a cross-platform FTP client which provides access to FTP servers.
• Web Developer – adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

References

1. Disconnect
2. Firefox privacy plugins
3. Torbutton and Torlauncher

External links

• Official add-ons site for Mozilla products