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Useful Firefox Add-ons

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. tridactyl

  2. vimium-FF

  3. Vimperator

    • Vim-like key bindings, the ultimate plug-in for Firefox

    • outdated in Firefox 57+

  4. Pentadactyl

A more powerful but complex alternative to Vimperator. The main focus of Vimperator is on usability, simplicity, stability and design while still preserving a powerful, modal browsing experience influenced by Vim. The aim of Pentadactyl is to create a complex beast, where hackers with too much free time can do any (un-)imaginable thing. Also Pentadactyl focuses more on 1:1 Vim compatibility.

FireNVim

FireNVim lets you use NeoVim directly from your browser. Contrary to other extensions, it does not open a new OS window. For detailed discussions, please refer to Firenvim Brings NeoVim into Your Browser .

Notes, Task, etc.

  1. Add to Wunderlist

  2. Todoist

    task reminder

  3. ReminderFox

    task reminder

Search Engine

  1. Add to Search Bar

    Add any search on any page to the Search Bar. Just make a right click (Ctrl+click on a Mac) with the mouse pointer on top of the page's search box and choose "Add to Search Bar..."

    If you don't know how to use the extension, have a look at the second image - it's a screencast showing it in action.

Security

  • AdBlock Plus (block ads)

  • NoScript (block scripts on website which makes web surfing faster and securer)

  • Flashblock (block flash video on websites which makes web surfing faster and securer)

Sync & Sharing

  • Shareaholic (the ultimate way to share web pages with yourself/friends)

  • Xmarks (a standalone synchronization plug-in for Firefox)

Proxy

Due to technical reasons, PAC configuration based proxy cannot be set up on Firefox currently.

  • Proxy SwitchyOmega

The best Proxy Switching plugin (for both Firefox and Chrome)

Feeds

  • Pocket (save pages to read later)

  • feedly (RSS feed)

Hack

  • FireSSH (SSH client for Firefox)

  • firebug (the ultimate way to modify/hack websites)

  • Greasemonkey/scriptish

  • cliget

  • Multi Links Generates curl/wget commands that emulate the request as though it's coming from your browser allowing you to download protected files directly to a separate machine.

  • lget
    Allows you to initiate a direct download of a file given a url.

  • PrintFriendly Make any web page Print Friendly & PDF

  • Open in Chrome

  • IETab

  • Live HTTP Headers
    View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.

Downloading Tools

  • Video DownloadHelper

  • DownThemAll
    The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

  • FlashGot Mass Downloader

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