Firefox Add-Ons
9th February 2009
My web browser of choice is Firefox, which I’ve now used for the past couple of years in preference to the common or garden Internet Explorer web browser that lurks on your average Microsoft PC.
One of the cool things about Firefox that makes it a great browser to use is the ability to enhance its functionality with “Plug-ins”, “extensions” or “Add-ons” as they are known.
Basically these are little software applications that bolt-on to the Firefox software on your computer that either allow you to do more stuff or to help you to personalise your browser.
These ‘plug-ins’ are developed by a whole community of independent software developers using Firefox’s Open-Source coding platform. This allows these people to develop their own product enhancements in the form of “add-ons”. Many of these plug-ins are offered free of charge or very little cost.
Some of the more common plug-ins allow the User to support different software such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Apple Quicktime, Adobe Flash player etc, whilst others are more specialist. For example, I recently posted about Twitterfox – a Firefox plug-in that helps me manage my Tweets.
There are literally hundreds of Firefox plug-ins, many of which are free to download. It’s just a matter of knowing where to start. The Add-Ons page on the Mozilla site (the people behind Firefox) offers a useful categorised directory of them all and is a great place to start.
Try downloading a few that grab your attention. It’s easy enough to uninstall them later if you want.
New ones are added all the time, so it’s worth keeping an eye on this site.
If you don’t have Firefox installed on your machine, download it here.
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