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Here is a list or run down if you will of the better Firefox add-ons that I use.

First up is a screen shot of my Firefox add-on list.

From the top.

1. Better YouTube.
   “Enhances YouTube with Greasemonkey user scripts, that offer options like the FlowPlayer “doesn’t start till you hit play” viewer, clean “theater” view, and links to download the video automatically”
2. Bookmark Previews.
   “Bookmark Previews adds an album view and thumbnail view to the bookmarks manager.”
   

   bookmark-thumbnail

   With the bookmarks sidebar open just hold the mouse over the bookmark and a small thumbnail of the site will popup, a very handy tool.

3. Download Statusbar.
   “View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.”
4. Video Downloadhelper.
   “The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
   This works also for audio and picture galleries.”
5. English Australian Dictionary.
   “Australian English Dictionary for Mozilla applications.”
6. Firefox Showcase.
   “Easily find and manage your browser tabs.” Puts a small button to the right of the tab bar and when you click on it a window comes up and shows your currents tabs as large thumbnails so when you click on one it then closes the popup showcase window and switches to that tab.
7. Flagfox.
   “Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.”
   

   firefox-location

   Shows a small flag at the end of the address bar which shows what country the server is located in, hold the mouse over it and it shows the url, IP address and country name. Right click on the flag on you can choose Whois, copy IP, wikipedia, geotool.

8. Fox Clocks.
   “FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world – or just your local time – by putting small clocks in your statusbar.”
9. Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer.
   “If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. You can also log in to my.foxmarks.com to manage your bookmarks from any computer.”
10. Send Tab URL’s.
    “Send Tab URLs creates an email message containing a list of URLs from all browser tabs in the current window. To create the email message, simply choose the Send Tab URLs command on the File menu.”
11. Source Viewer Tab.
    “This loads “View Page Source” and “View Selection Source” in tabs instead of new windows.” Right click on the page and choose view page source and it will open the source in a new tab.
12. TwitterFox.
    “The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their statuses. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.” More information here.

A few about pages.
Type any of the below into the address bar to acces them.

1. about:config to access the advanced configuration of firefox.
2. about:plugins to show a list of what plugins are installed like flash and java etc.


installed-pluggins

3. about:robots to display a funny little robots page.

Next is the theme I am using which is called NASA Night Launch and is a nice dark theme.

The search bar that normally shows in the top right near the address bar in firefox can be added to as well.

As you can see I have added quiet a few to the selection and a few have added them selves.

Until I next update page have a good look at firefox for a browser.

Update for the 28th of July 2009.

2 new add-ons that I have found useful.

• GButts – All Google Services at a glance – download here
• Toggle Private Browsing – download here