The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

As this is world of computers, everyone is using internet in any field he is in. Browsers are playing an important role in boosting up the use of internet more easily. Everyone wants more ease in using internet, so in this scenario more and more browsers along with their new versions are coming on the forefront. Likewise Firefox 4.0, a new version of Mozilla Firefox has been released on March 22nd, 2011.

This new major release is going to sport lots of new features including its vigorously changing stop/refresh/home button next to enhanced HTML5 and JavaScript support and it will definitely break a great deal of stuff we need today. So it won’t be insignificant to upgrade most add-ons to support it. Today I am going to discuss the great 10 add-ons to enhance your Firefox browsing experience.

Start Faster 0.2

This add-on is so interesting that once you restart the windows, it goes around the Windows features to load Firefox faster. ‘Faster Firefox’ shortcut has also been added to the Desktop which starts Firefox up to 2x quicker than without this add-on.

 

Personal Menu (Personal Firefox Button)

This is such a great add on that allows you to edit the Firefox Menu and change it to your personal and powerful one. It provides you a couple of new supportive items that are available to be put into Firefox Menu like Bookmark Items, Configuration, History Items, Restart. Besides that, toolbar-box, split-menus and sub-menus to organize your Firefox Menu can also be created.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

Mozilla Labs: Prospector – Home Dash

By using this Mozilla Lab add on, you can the entire window to the web content by removing the typical location bar, search bar, and tabs. It helps users to find top sites, tabs, history, and do web search by enabling the search functionality in a dashboard.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

Quick Search Bar

Instead of the dropdown menu, this Quick Search Bar add on places the search engine buttons inside the searchbar just to enhance the usability if you use more than one search engine.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

Find All

Find All add on adds a find bar button through which you’ll be allowed to search for a word or phrase on a web page. And the results are displayed in an easy to view list. The total number of results found are also displayed by using this add on.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

 

Barlesque

Barlesque is a wonderful extension for Mozilla Firefox 4 that reclaims useful window space by breaking up the wide grey add-on bar into a neat set of add-on buttons. This extension is in Firefox 4 only, as add-on bar is a new trait.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser 

Tab Badge

To alert you to new messages on Facebook, this add on adds a small badge to your tabs. When the tabs are pinned, the badge is also visible so you can see when there’s something new available.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

GReader Panel

GReader Panel add on can display mobile Google Reader in a panel.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser

TabGroups Menu

This add on is used to a menu which displays all tabs grouped by tabgroups to the menu bar and to the tabview button if the menu bar is hidden.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser


Status-4-Evar

To give you more control on the built-in Firefox features, this add on has brought back some of the old status bar items. In this way, you can enjoy both new and old features.

The 10 Excellent Firefox 4 Add-Ons To Enhance The Way you Use Your Browser


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5 Comments

  1. ipadwise says:

    The best way to speed up Firefox is to switch to Google Chrome. I love everything about Firefox except its speed. Chrome is way faster, so I put up with the current lack of extensions like an ad blocker etc. Mozilla really need to address the speed issue with Firefox and they need to do it now.

  2. Super Firefox-4 add ons we can get more use through the Firefox.

  3. Graphiics says:

    Most recommended plug-ins nice

  4. waqas says:

    they are useful indeed