These are my 10 favorite Firefox add-ons… So that you can known and that I can’t forget!
- Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab functionalities providing a lot of customizable new option.
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer is your silent companion, synchronizing in background your bookmarks between all your computers.
- FlashGot gathers multiple links in a page and downloads them using the available lightweight. download manager available.
- DownThemAll is a completely built-in download manager that is very fast and lightweight.
- ForecastFox is an eye-catching weather reporting tool… for those days you don’t leave the house!
- Mouse Gestures creates ’shortcuts’ based on your mouse movements, which is a much more quick way and easy than reaching for your keyboard or selecting an option from a menu.
- Adblock Plus avoids those annoying advertisements.
- Download Statusbar provides a simple way to manage your downloading activities using little window space.
- Image Zoom allows the custom dimensioning of images in a webpage.
- PDF Download customizes the PDF downloading functionalities, avoiding those unnecessary empty tabs.
Please note that I’m currently using Firefox version 2.0.0.14, and not all above add-ons work on newer versions (such as version 3 Beta 5).
These are my 10 favorite Thunderbird add-ons… So that you can known and that I can’t forget!
- Contacts Sidebar, enables a very useful sidebar allowing the management of Thunderbird’s address book(s) in a easy way.
- Lightning extends the functionalities of Thunderbird adding an impressive calendar application making it a even more powerful work tool.
- Provider for Google Calendar enables the sharing information between Google Calendar accounts and the Lightning calendar application.
- Image Zoom allows the custom dimensioning of image contents of an email.
- Slideshow enables a new button that displays the images attached to an email as a slide show.
- SMTP Select allows the selection of SMTP server used for delivering mail for each independent message sent. The user simply has to select from a drop down list which server to use.
- Quote Collapse is a very practical extension that allows to collapse or expand text sent as quote. This is specially useful in those forward/reply conversation that are so usual nowadays.
- Remote Duplicate Messages is a practical tool that removes all those annoying duplicate messages that are so usual when getting messages from several accounts.
- Mouse Gesture creates ’shortcuts’ based on your mouse movements, which is a much more quick way and easy than reaching for your keyboard or selecting an option from a menu.
- CompactFolder allows the user to compact the currently selected folder by simply clicking on a toolbar button.