Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing

Control Firefox Tabs

• All-in-One Gestures – merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)
• Tabbrowser Preferences – a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.
• Tab Mix Plus – More tweaks added to tabs. Ability to select and open muliple links in tabs, open link in a duplicated tab, merge tabs and close tabs from similar domain…
• Duplicate Tab – allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window.
• Colorful Tabs – Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface.
• Viamatic foXpose – Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.
• Firefox Showcase – easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.
• Separe – Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab.
• Permatabs – turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs that can’t be closed, and stick around between sessions.
• FaviconizeTab – resizes the width of the tab to display the favicon only (and back again).

Control Website Links

• Linky – Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.
• WebMailCompose – Makes mailto: links load your webmail’s compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu.
• Linkification – Allows Firefox (0.9+) to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links
• IE Tab – can open the current page or a selected link embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. Very useful for those IE only pages.
• FirefoxView – Open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer. Adds “View in Firefox” menu items to the content and link context menus.
• Paste and Go – lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the adress bar’s context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V
• ErrorZilla – changes the default 404 error page with following choices: a google cache, an archival snapshot from the wayback machine, a ping, a trace route, and a whois lookup

Control File Downloads

• FlashGot – handles single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers.
• PDF Download – Every time you click on a link, checks if the target is a pdf file and in this case let you choose what you want to do (open pdf file inside a new tab, download it to the filesystem or view it as HTML).
• ScrapBook – helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections.
• DownThemAll! – adds new advanced downloading capabilities to your browser. It lets you download in just one click all the links or images contained in a webpage or refine your preferences using fully customizable filters.
• TargetAlert – provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks. If a hyperlink points to a something that is not a web page (in cases of pdf, doc, zip files etc.), then TargetAlert will try to append an icon to the hyperlink that represents its destination
• Download Manager Tweak – modifies the default appearance of the firefox download manager and allows it to be opened in a separate window, the sidebar, or a tab.
• Download Statusbar – is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar
• Disable Targets For Downloads – Prevents sites spawning blank windows when clicking binary downloads.
• FireFTP – is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.