Customized Tools – Firefox Plugins

December 5, 2009

One of the great things about technology is the ability to customize the tools we use every day.  Small, lightwieght laptops for traveling, robust quad-core systems for gaming and engineering work, multiple smartphones of wonderfullly variety to choose from… we have great options to choose from when looking for the right computing experience.

Luckily the same is true in most areas of technology.  One of them being the killer app of the decade: the web browser.  Today I happen to be a Firefox user, and the most important feature for me is the extension and plug-in architecture that allows 3rd part developers to add new unanticipated functionality to the browser.  At first, I went overboard (who doesn’t) and added all the coolest plug-ins that I ran across.

Soon, however, I figured out the functionality that really enhanced my usability and quickly pared down what I needed to a select group of plug-ins that I install on computer I run Firefox on – including Linux boxes.  The ability to have the same customized environment on both my Windows and Linux boxes is a huge productivity boon for me.

Anyway, here’s the list of Firefox Plug-Ins that I run at the moment:

So that’s what I use right now.  These tools help me in my daily browsing, monitoring, reading and writing routine.  Will it change – undoubtedly.  As new services and tools come about, I’ll adapt as the tools change.  They always do.

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  • These plugins are great and really helpful. I'm always looking for new plugins.
  • log121
    And what's about search, like CurrentSiteSearch?
  • most of customized tool support a specific version , so we have make choice between tools.
  • True, however if you haven't upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, you're missing great features and security enhancements.

    Pick the tools that work for you.
  • Hey Rich you should add one of firefox plug-in on the list which called firebug The plug-in must populer for who is web developer

    by the way I liked your post thank you
  • thnks for sharing..nice post..
  • Thanks fore sharing this useful tool, Your blog is one of the most wonderful places to visit.
  • I agree with you kolorowanki dla dzieci this is great blog, thanks for this article, I love it!
  • Firefox has make things quite easy to complete tedious looking things in seconds. The rich set of add-ons are enough to keep the other softwares out of equation which help to increase the performance of the system.
  • I use Xmarks, Google Toolbar, StumbleUpon and for me is sufficient.
  • StumbleUpon is another good one that I've used in the past and access via Shareaholic. The official one you mention has more functionality too!
  • youth4ever
    Interesting post you have Rick.
    Regarding the firefox plugins I can tell you that the browser became with them almost like an Operating System. You can install almost everything and almost working in the browser. Rudely speaking of course. The problem is that you must install only what you use. If you pass the limit you'll have a very slow browser no matter the speed of you CPU and Ram memory. I used to have all kinds of plug-ins but now I just a few that I use most.
    Nice list anyway. I don't know them all.
  • Well, you have a point about performance. There is a line, and once you cross it the browser become sluggish. However, I've found I depend on a couple of those plugins for email and Google Reader so I can't really jump to Chrome for performance on those (even though they are much faster there). I suppose it's a balance and depends on a person's requirements for speed vs. functionality.

    Thanks for bringing that up, its always a good thing to keep in mind.
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