Fifty Best Firefox 3 Extensions

Control Privacy / Security

• FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities.
• NoScript – allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice. This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities with no loss of functionality
• CookieCuller – Extended Cookie Manager to protect/unprotect selected cookies.
• Stealther – surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer by *temporarily disabling history (and address bar), cookies, formFill, disk cache and sending of ReferrerHeader. Verify details of what exactly it can work for you.
• Glubble Family Edition – is a free parental control suite for Firefox.
• Password Exporter - allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported in another browser or computer.

Control Web Searches

• Google Toolbar for Firefox – Lets you search google and all its services easily. Also powered by Google Suggest (Get query suggestions as you type in the search box), SpellCheck, AutoFill, Pagerank of webpage, access to gmail, WordTranslator etc.
• CustomizeGoogle – enhances search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
• NextPlease! – allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to jump to next and previous links on search results pages, like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and many other sites.
• BetterSearch – enhances Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com, AllTheWeb, Dogpile.com, del.icio.us and Simpy.com bookmarks by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info etc.
• Answers – Press Alt (or Option on a Mac) and click any word to get a quick, relevant definition or explanation, drawn from a collection of over 100 reference titles.

Control Your Music / Video

• FoxyTunes – Listen to music while surfing the Web, and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.
• MediaPlayerConnectivity – Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click

Control Your Email

• Better Gmail 2 – a compilation of Greasemonkey user scripts that adds advanced  features to new version of Gmail.
• Gmail Manager – Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
• WebMail Notifier – checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails. Supports gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc.

Control Your Bookmarks

• Bookmark with Del.icio.us – Integrate del.icio.us right into Firefox. Easily access your bookmarks and post new bookmarks. Post a bookmark without leaving the page you are on.
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer – Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized
• StumbleUpon – is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites.
• Reliby – provides you with Reload all Live Bookmarks functionality.
• Clipmarks – lets you save and share Web page content without having to bookmark the entire page.
• Shareaholic – Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser.

Control Other Popular Services

• Adsense Notifier – Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.
• Forecastfox Enhanced – Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar. Now with improved radar images and allows for pausing, restarting and setting the frequency of automatic updates.
• DictionarySearch – Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary you selected.
• Web Developer – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various essential web developer tools.
• Scribefire – A full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox and lets you easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.
• Digg Extension – see whether or not the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg and lets you submit it
• Map+ – enables you to quickly view a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs.
• ChatZilla – is a clean and easy to use Internet relay chat (IRC) client.
• TwitterFox – notifies you of your friends’ tweets of Twitter.

This list is by no means complete and you may not agree with my choice, but this is merely an attempt to find the top and best firefox extensions.

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