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Firefox Add-Ins
One of the great benefits of Firefox is the enormous number of free add-ons available. You can find add-ons that do just about everything. Here are a few of our favorites.
CustomizeGoogle
In addition, you can use it to tell Google to link to the Wayback Machine, a Web site that archives old versions of Web pages. On both regular search results and image search results, it adds links to Ask.com, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and other resources. You'll also be able to customize Gmail, as well as to filter out search results from sites you don't want to see.
Any Google user--which means most folks--will want to take this download for a spin.
Download CustomizeGoogle | Price: Free
List.it
If you're a Firefox user, List.it offers a better way. This little Firefox add-on lets you jot down notes, thoughts, and ideas while you're still in the browser. To add a note, you simply click the note icon at the bottom-right corner of Firefox or press a hotkey. A side panel appears, and you can then type in a note and save it. You can also browse or search other notes you've typed.
If you use more than one computer and you have Firefox on each of them, you'll especially like this program, because it can synchronize your notes among those PCs. It's cross-platform as well, so if you're running Firefox in Linux or on a Mac, you can synchronize your notes with those machines too.
Download List.it | Price: Free
NoScript
By default, Firefox allows all of these interactive technologies to run when it encounters them on a Web page--it can't differentiate between the useful and the malicious. NoScript solves that problem neatly. It blocks JavaScript, Java, Silverlight, and various other technologies from running, unless you instruct it to let specific sites run them. That way, you can enjoy the features at sites that you know are safe, and turn them off everywhere else.
When you visit a site at which content is blocked, NoScript issues a notification, and you can then decide whether to let the content through, block it, allow it just once, or always permit it at that specific site. You can also fine-tune the permissions for scripts to a remarkable degree (something that only true techies will want to bother with). The freebie safeguards your PC in other ways as well, protecting against cross-site scripting attacks, for example. NoScript is an ideal tool for anyone concerned about online safety. Most people will simply set it and forget it, while the hard-core can fiddle with it to their heart's content.
Download NoScript | Price: Free
Tab Scope
You can interact with the thumbnail view, too. Buttons appear for back, forward, refresh, and to close the window; another button zooms in on the page so that you can see more detail. You can also click any link you see in the thumbnail and browse that way.
You get quite a bit of control over how the tabs look and behave, and you can change things such as the thumbnail size, the zoom level, where the thumbnail should appear, and how long the lag should be between the time you hover your mouse and the time the thumbnail appears.
Download Tab Scope | Price: Free
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