The main thing that made Firefox so popular beside it’s browsing speed, and highest security, certainly are add-ons. If you are an IE, Safari or even Opera user, there is a great chance that you haven’t used add-ons, so try downloading Mozilla Firefox and try some of the add-ons, and believe me, you will not go back to other browsers.
To browse add-ons use this link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
So shall we get started?
Ok - so here’s the list:
1) Web Developer - it may not be in your TOP list, but if you are a web developer it will certainly find a way to your TOP 5. Web Developer lets you easily see the source code of the page, and makes viewing of CSS styles “piece of cake”. Also it brings you Cookies, Forms, Tables, Headings, and everything you can imagine!!! And that’s not all - not only you can view data you wish, you can disable what you wish, and disable some stuff like maximum lengths of fields… There are literally milion features you can use, so if you are a web developer, or you are interested in web developing be sure to install this add-on.
2) FireNES - an add-on that you may use when you are bored. This add-on brings you ability to play Nintendo games (and some SEGA copy and Terminator games) using Java. It has 2,500 games, and they are not stored locally wich has a good and a bad side, but 2,500 games is a lot, and almost everyone of us has played this games as a kid(one word for you to get that time back - Super Mario). Since I couldn’t find this add-on on Mozilla server, I’m gonna give you the link for it: http://firenes.en.softonic.com/
Be sure to check it out!
3) StumbleUpon - if you haven’t used StumbleUpon before you don’t know what you are missing. Ok - so here’s the story - over 5 milion people that are registered at stumble upon are browsing the web, and when they find something interesting they post it on StumbleUpon. They also choose a category wich will be assigned to the site. Other members check there links and rate the site. With StumbleUpon toolbar you just have to register on StumbleUpon and choose your “categories of interest”. Then when you wish to browse the web just click on the button “Stumble!” in your toolbar and there you go. The only problem with this add-on is that you become very addicted to it - believe me MySpace and Facebook are nothing compared to this, so be sure to check it out if the “force is strong with you”.
4) PicLens - at first i thought this would be one of those add-ons that you install, try, and delete… And altought I hate to admit it I was wrong… Very, very wrong… This add-on transforms your Firefox browser in some kind of a 3D wall. It lets you browse images and videos from the current web page, displaying them as thumbnails, and let you search and zoom them. And thats not all, it gives you ability to search sites like YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo,… by not going back into your browser at all. The reason why this add-on is in 4th place is because i don’t use it a lot. Now, many of you will go - so why the f* do you recommend it? The reason i don’t use it is cause i usually have a slow internet connection (256kbps), and it works pretty much ok with that, but if I’m downloading something it usually leaves me 64kbps, and that doesn’t give you the ability to realy enjoy PicLens - I’ve tried it on 1Mbps, and it’s awesome!!!
See the demo here: http://piclens.com/demo
5) Download Statusbar - as much as I love Mozilla Firefox, I must admit that I hate that little download window… Especially if you have multiple running you know what I mean… Don’t panic there is a simple solution - Download Statusbar will let you “View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. ” . Simple as that. All i can say is - great add-on!!!
I’m hoping that this article helped you… If you have any suggestions about some other or these add-ons feel free to comment! 
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