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Firefox extensions are software plugins that add new features to the Mozilla Firefox web browsers. Most Firefox extensions work in the SeaMonkey web browser as well. For a more technical description, see Extension (Mozilla).

This is not a complete list. For a more complete list, see http://addons.mozilla.org.

Most of these extensions are open-source software, but some are not, including 1-Click Weather and the Google Toolbar for Firefox.

  • 1-Click Answers provides quick access to Answers.com definitions of highlighted words.
  • 1-Click Weather The Weather Channel's version of Forecastfox but with more features
  • Adblock or its variant Adblock Plus is used for blocking ads.
  • Adsense Notifier (more info) is an extension that allows Adsense publishers to display their earnings on the Firefox toolbar.
  • Advanced Dork:(more info) Provides right-click functionality to highlighted word or phrases for immediate use with Google’s Advanced Operators.
  • All-in-one Sidebar (more info) is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide-out button and a toolbar, all of which can be extensively customized.
  • Bookmark Backup creates an automatic backup of bookmarks each time the browser is closed, which can be restored in the event of profile corruption.
    • ChatZilla is a full-fledged IRC chat client that works inside Firefox.
    • ChromEdit is an editor that allows you to edit various configuration files from within the browser. Files you can edit are UserChrome.css, UserContent.css, User.js, and Prefs.js.
    • CookiePie (aka ChocoTorta) is a Firefox extension to have different mails accounts (Gmail/Yahoo!/etc) or application profiles on each tab.
    • Copy Plain Text Does exactly what its name implies. Also good for copying tables to excel. More Info
    • CustomizeGoogle adds features such as Google Suggest and Yahoo! and Internet Archive links to Google search results pages. It also can remove ads.
    • CuteMenus Crystal SVG (download) adds colorful icons to Firefox's menu items.
    • digg.com toolbar (download) Toolbar for the social bookmarking website digg.com. Contains many rss feeds, search digg, submit to digg button, digg.com chat room and links to every diggnation broadcast.
    • DOM Inspector is for web developers. It allows them to inspect the Document Object Model tree of any page.
    • Farkit is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox which makes replying to comments on Fark easier. (download)
    • Fasterfox prefetches links on pages to make firefox browsing a faster experience
    • Feedview allows Firefox to open RSS and Atom feeds as webpages.
    • Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences and cookies. (More info/download)
    • Flashblock prevents Flash movies from playing without explicitly starting them or adding the originating site to a whitelist
    • FlashGot (more info) provides massive download features (like downloading all link or selected links from a page at once) and seamless integration with several external download manager programs.
    • Forecastfox (more info) is a Firefox browser extension created by Jon Stritar and Richard Klein that displays a summary of weather forecast for a given location in the status bar, menu bar or toolbar. The summary takes the form of icons depicting sun, clouds or rain for one or more days ahead. Hovering over the icons shows more information such as temperature and wind speed. Forecast information is provided by Accuweather. Previously, the feed was provided by Weather.com but the terms and conditions became too restrictive. See also 1-Click Weather, above.
    • FootieFox displays live soccer scores in the statusbar and notifies you in case of a goal. (more)
    • Google Browser Sync allows users to store firefox bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved bookmarks on googles servers so that when using firefox on a different computer that information will be the same on all computers.
    • Google Notebook allows users to access the service without navigating away from their current webpage, allowing highlighted text and images to be added to a user's notebook without the need for copy-pasting.
    • Google Toolbar for Firefox has identical functions to the Google Toolbar.
      • Googlepedia shows you Wikipedia articles along with your Google search results.
      • Greasemonkey allows users to install user scripts that modify specific web pages. For example, one user script, BookBurro, causes description pages on Amazon.com to show prices at competing bookstores.
      • IE Tab allows users to view pages using the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within Mozilla Firefox. This is useful for some websites that do not work properly in Firefox.
      • Image Zoom allows users of Gecko based browsers (e.g. Mozilla Firefox) the ability to change image sizes within the web page. There are several ways the user can zoom images through the interface as well as the ability to zoom single images or an entire page of images.
      • Joga.com Companion creates a visual theme for Mozilla Firefox as well as providing tools relating to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Joga.com
      • Launchy enables the user to launch external applications -- such as other browsers, imaging applications, or text editors -- from Firefox's context menu.
      • LiveClick More Info creates a link to the homepage of RSS feeds
      • Mouse Gestures allows users to use editable mouse gestures and rocker gestures for navigation and page viewing.
      • Mozex allows the use of any text editor to write e-mails, forum posts, or other documents normally edited inside web browser text fields.
      • NeedleSearch is an alternative search toolbar which can add additional search engines without downloading any additional software. The user's guide explains how to do this.
      • NewsFox (more info) is an RSS reader. It supports RSS and Atom.
      • NoScript prevents the execution of Javascript, Java applets and other potentially harmful content types unless the user has added the site to a whitelist.
      • Platypus (more info) is a Mozilla Firefox web browser extension. It is an implementation of a software concept known as "active scripting", where the user can modify web pages and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script, so that they'll be repeated the next time the page is visited.
      • PDF Download (more info) (download) is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!.
      • Piggy Bank (more info) turns Firefox it into a Semantic Web browser, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways not offered by the original Web sites.
      • Popup Blocker Settings (more info) allows you to modify Firefox's built-in pop-up blocker to open all pop-up windows, block unrequested, or block all. The "Block all" and "Open all" settings are each improvements over Firefox's defaults.
      • Psyc (more info) Open Source communications extension with Instant Messenger and Chat features. The PSYC Protocol enables you to communicate with other PSYC users as well as Jabber and IRC.
      • PurpleBunny is a toolbar that lets users read and write comments about websites. All comments are posted on the public PurpleBunny website, a modified phpBB forum.
      • Reel New Media Toolbar (download) (more info) is a Broadcast Media Toolbar which features LIVE and Video Online Broadcasts including News, Sports, Entertainment, LifeStyle, and more. The toolbar offers 1 click links to the best online broadcasts, plus the best web sites on the Internet.
      • Remember Mismatched Domains More Info
      • Sage (more info) is an RSS reader developed by Peter Andrews and Erik Arvidsson. It supports RSS and Atom.
      • Session Saver (more info) is designed to save all open tabs and internet sites since the last use - a similar feature is included in the Opera browser as standard.
      • Showcase displays each open browser tab as a thumbnail image
      • Smiley Xtra allows users to insert a wide variety of smilies into UltimateBB forums using ubbCode.
      • SmoothWheel (more info | download) allows you to scroll pages "smoothly" with the mouse wheel.
      • SpellBound (more info) is a spell checker which was created by modifying the Mozilla Composer spellcheck function for inclusion in Firefox.
      • StumbleUpon allows users to encounter random sites based upon the rating given by stumblers.

        See also

        External links

        Mozilla extensions | Mozilla Firefox

        Расширение Firefox

 

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the "List of Firefox extensions".

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