The Firefox browser is one of the most downloaded software on the Internet. More and more users are using Firefox because of its speed, security and a bunch of other features that make it stand out from the other popular web browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari.
What makes Firefox preferred by most Internet users is because it is more than just an application where you can open websites. It can be a platform where web developers, bloggers, SEO consultants, etc can use to make their day to day lives more productive. This is with the help of various plug-ins and extensions that is compatible with Firefox which allow Internet users to do various tasks.
As defined by Wikipedia, extensions add specific abilities to a larger software application. By using the different extensions and plug-ins available for Firefox, users don’t have to exit the browser as they can perform certain tasks faster right from within the browser, thereby saving time and increasing productivity.
Here is a list of the Top 7 Firefox Extensions to boost productivity:
- Fire Shot. If you like to do screen capture of websites, either for blogging purposes or you just want to save a copy of the web page, then this is the plug-in for you. This plug-in allows to capture image of the web page and saves the captured image in JPEG or other format.
- Speed Dial. Most of us use Bookmarks to save some of our frequently visited websites. But after some time, we would have accumulated a number of these bookmarks that we have to scroll through each one of them if we want to access one of the websites from the list. With Speed Dial, you will be able to organize your bookmarks in a dashboard and even group them per category for a much faster search.
- FireFTP. For blog and website owners who need to upload files to their FTP site, the FireFTP add-on eliminates the need for a separate FTP software as it can turn Firefox to an FTP utility as this allows access to FTP servers for easy uploading of files to hosting account.
- TinyUrl Generator. This nifty Firefox plugin provides the tool to shrink long URL to tiny URL that you can easily send via email or Twitter. Aside from the fact that tiny URL are more pleasing to the eye than the long URL, it can save up characters too especially when sending link via Twitter that has limited characters.
- Ad Block Plus. Advertisement and banners take as much as 10 times bandwidth in order to load it so most of us would rather skip the ads and banner and go to the content of the web page directly. The Ad Block Plus plugin allows users to stop any advertisement and banner from being displayed. This is especially useful for those with very slow bandwidth connection as it can definitely speed up the loading of the page.
- WebMail Notifier. If you have multiple email accounts from various web mail sites like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and more, then you will find this plugin very useful as it checks all your web mail accounts and give notifications for the number of unread emails.
- FoxLingo. This plug-in is an all in one translator, dictionary, grammar checker and language learning services. It supports 3,000 unique language pairs and 31 online translators.
Plug-ins are free and very easy to install and it really extends the functionality of your browser. This are just some of the plug-ins available for FireFox and if you search the Mozilla Firefox site, I am sure you will find one out of the 1500++ extensions available that will meet your requirement to make your online life simple and more productive.