IMacros for Firefox – This is basically an automation tool for repetitive tasks. It may not sound very useful, but it’s only because you haven’t faced a form crash yet. It can recover form entries, comments, and any WYSIWYG editor content. Lazarus – Lazarus simply saves all form entries you make and lets you restore it in case it gets deleted due to internet problem, crash, or a server timeout.
It works on most of the websites, including email services and social media websites. Grammarly – Grammarly automatically finds typos and grammar mistakes and lets you quickly fix them.
Some of the features include, unread messages count in tab favicon, attachment icon, hierarchical labels, and hide spam and chat, etc. Simplify Gmail – This add-on adds few helpful features to Gmail to make it easier and faster to manage your Gmail account. A very handy extension if you need to copy/paste often. You can then use the middle mouse click to paste it. You can add your own typo corrections and even configure it to ask before fixing a URL.ĪutoCopy – As the name suggests, AutoCopy automatically copies anything you highlight in Firefox to the clipboard. It will automatically fix most common URL typos and let you access the right website. Link Fixer – Link Fixer solves one of the biggest browsing problems, URL typos.
If you don’t want GIFs to load without your permission, then install Gif Block. Gif Blocker – GIFs can eat up bandwidth and slow down page loading speed, and many websites use GIFs today. This extension simply gets rid of that pop-up and saves you that one extra click. I don’t care about cookies – Due to EU regulations about cookies, many websites are bound to show an annoying pop up to confirm that the website is using cookies. It has support for over 45 social media networks. Share Anywhere – Share Anywhere makes it easy to quickly share any web page or web page content over your favorite social network website. There are also option to manage links, events, mouse shortcuts, tab display and much more. You can manage what each tab should do when it is opened/closed or is in session.
Tab Mix – It’s a highly customizable tab manager for Firefox that gives full control over your tabs. A must have extension to save time while working on dozens of tabs. You can create vertical, horizontal, or grid style tiles and easily view and manage tabs.ĬolorfulTabs – ColorfulTabs randomly gives a color to your opened tabs to make it easier to distinguish between multiple tabs.
Tile Tabs – Tile Tabs helps you organize your tabs in highly customizable tiles. Very handy if you always have dozens of tabs opened and want to reach the right tab quickly. Tip Tab – Simply shows a preview of the other opened tabs when you hover your mouse cursor over them. It can even recover tabs state after a crash. Tab Session Manager – This add-on helps you save the current state of the opened tabs in a Firefox window and recover it when needed. Today's internet is no longer the only source of information and entertainment, but also a place of treachery. Without this permission it’s hard to imagine malicious addon since addons cannot transmit any data without a “host” permission, so it needs to list URL of the server it needs to communicate with or use this permission.10 Firefox Add-ons For Safer Browsing Experience Even though practically there is only ONE permission that users should fear – “” – known as “Access your data on all websites”. So the problem remains – you have a huge store with many cool addons but they are all marked as dangerous.
If they make price somehow related to changed lines of code in addon, it would for sure help all those small addons but it would for sure reduce number of updates many of those addons receives. Most addon developers are making almost no money from their addons so no monthly subscription would be impossible. It’s a good idea, but… it’s not that simple at all.įor example what would be the pricing? How do you put a price tag on an addon that has 300 lines of code and gets updated once a year? And what if it’s an adblocker with 30_000 lines of codes that updates every week?