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In recent years, the Firefox browser is built a solid reputation in the small world of browsers and win every day many users thanks to the ability to add "extensions" (small plugins that add additional functionality to the browser) .

These extensions are a major reason for the success of the browser. For already conquered by the software but also for those who will come, we have chosen for you a small selection of extensions most practical and useful (and this small list is far from exaustive) ...

For RSS feeds:

- Sage: son RSS aggregator based on RSS Reader.

=> Show your RSS feeds in the left side of your browser

FirefoxSage

- RSS Ticker: RSS aggregator son: it cycles through the elements of the son in a strip down the top of your screen.

=> Very convenient RSS feeds that scroll and update in real time (update time programmable).

FirefoxRSSTicker

To avoid some inconvenience from the web:

- Adblock Plus blocks banner ads. Improved and internationalized version of Adblock.

For easier navigation and a more comfortable surfing:

- Tab X: small extension that adds a small red cross on each tab to close them more easily (especially useful for those who still have a mouse without wheel because a central click wheel on a tab closes it instantly)

FirefoxTabX

- PDF Download: download, open, or open a document in pdf format. Pdf in a new tab.

- Viamatic fowpose: Open a new tab with thumbnails of all currently open tabs.

Firefoxviamatic_foxpose

- Tab Preview: By simply pointing the mouse, Tab Preview offers a glimpse of the tab you want. The summary can represent the whole page, or size in percent or in pixels that you can set.

FirefoxTabPreview

- IE Tab: Allows you to view pages in Firefox using the Internet Explorer engine (useful for example to update its system with Windows Update because remember that the update of Windows usually works with Internet Explorer)

- Paste and go: stick an address in the address bar and it will directly or phrase into the search bar and carries it directly.

- Options Menu: Allows you to have a much faster access to your extensions options.

FirefoxOptionsMenu

- Gmail Notifier: If you have a Gmail account (the email Google), this extension handles monitor your letter box to, notify you of each new message and allows you direct access (no need to enter your login systematically and password) to your mail.

FirefoxGmailNotifier

- MediaPlayerConnectivity: Starts videos / music / radio web sites in an external application with a single click!

- CustomizeGoogle: improves search and navigation on the pages of Google for instance by adding direct links to other search engines or by completing the search as you type (the other functions are useful for webmasters as counting positions results in the page ...).

- Screen Grab: to make screenshots directly in Firefox (right-click lets you catur image of all or part of the web page views).

- ImageShack right-clik: Adding in the right-click the option to load an image from a website in dirett ImageShack (then publish the latter in a forum, website ...)

- Home Bookmarks: BookmarksHome automatically creates an attractive home page with your bookmarks.

  • You can choose to save all your bookmarks, or just a selection, with or without subfolders.
  • The graphics of this page is easily customizable through a style sheet that you can edit and view immediately. There is also a choice of stylesheets available. You can create your own.
  • Changes in your bookmarks (add / delete / rename / move) will be visible after reloading the page BookmarksHome.
  • This version offers the ability to display "LiveMark" bookmarks for RSS feeds. (See option "show icons")

IMPORTANT After installation, the page for bookmarks, you must enter exactly this in the address bar ...:

about: bookmarkshome

Firefoxbookmarkshome

The specific extensions rather oriented developers website:

- Adsense Notifier: To follow reports of your affiliate account Google Adsense live without you log into your administration interface.

Firefoxadsense_notifier

- IE View: Open a page displayed in Firefox in a new window in Internet Explorer by simply right-click

FirefoxIEView

- Opera View: The same function IE View, but this time with the Opera browser (very useful to "validate" an amendment to its web page in all major browsers as the result of a web page can be very different depending the browser used to view it).

FirefoxOperaView

- Google Pagerank Status: This extension will display the Google PageRank in the status bar when opening a web page (for those not wishing to install the Google Toolbar).

- CSS Viewer: View detailed properties of a CSS web page.

FirefoxCssViewer

This is a short overview of our favorite extensions, if you can not find your happiness here, you can always visit the site Geckozone which contains a very good library of extensions for Firefox and then directly on the official website of Mozilla (in ).

If you have any extensions that you have become indispensable, we invite you to share them with others by offering them in our Forum.

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