In previous -Must have Firefox add-on series, we talked about three finest add-ons that make browsing a lot easier. This time our focus will be the add-ons that can extend your browser’s capability beyond usual. This add-ons or extensions are equally valuable to students as well as business users.
Not every Internet surfer in the world has high speed connection, and mostly they use some kind of download manager or accelerator to boost their downloading speed and manage. Well if you are a Firefox 1.5+ user why installing extra application for downloading, when DownthemAll extension for Firefox can give you the same features? This cool add-on features an advanced accelerator that boost speed up to a very reasonable level and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. Current Version:- 0.9.9.10.
Pros: Easy to use, user friendly configuration option. Ability to filter your downloads by fully customizable criteria. You can download almost anything from an image to smashing video, with serious speed. In my experience I found it a lot faster than Google’s download accelerator, iGetter download manager. Very handy for Linux users as there are very few Linux compatible download manager that can be as good as DownThemAll.
Cons: Several casual compatibility issues have been reported in different localization (other than English). There is always room for improvements, like including a scheduler; batch downloading system is creepy-need to be modified. I honestly think they developer could add an option to configure timeout session, before the extension gives up a download retry.
Don’t like the new look of Firefox tab? Miss the multiple rows of tabs when they exceed the width of your screen? Fear not! Tab Mix Plus is here to save you from all those. This kick-ass Firefox extension makes tabbed browsing even better than it already is. This extension has the ability to change those settings and almost everything else related with tabs.
Pros: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options and a bunch of more options. Not only that, there is a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows. You can user scrollwheel to browse tabs, or control tab switching via mouse gestures. You can specify where Web pages will open–in the background or the foreground, in a new tab or the current one–based on how they were created: by clicking a link, typing an address, or using the search bar. This is a priority one extension you should have.
Cons: There is some room for improvements. Occasionally session manager crashes. Too many tabs (25+) can sometime cause the browser freeze, after restarting browser session manager don’t work. These bugs are very rare; other circumstances such as localization, other extension might also trigger these.
This award winning extension is truly a bomb! With NoScript Firefox become one of the safest browsers on the face of the planet. Why? This tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. With No Script installed JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, and guards against sinister cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).
Pros: Well documented help, installation instruction and uses make this extension very easy to use for all level of users. It’s a bit of a pain at first, having to add every site you go to, to the allowed list, but it gets better after a while, once you have all of the sites you frequently go to in the list. Simple logic, you decide which site you trust.
Cons: Less than frequent update, a lot of user reported that this extension slows-down page loading considerably. Well some price you gotta pay for safer browsing.
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