Before we stated in our expression at the best browsers for Linux, what makes Firefox so great is its virtually endless extensibility. There are hundreds of handy, useful addons accessible for free, and new ones are created all the time. If an addon stops working, you shouldn’t have any issues finding a fully functional alternative. With so many brilliant addons in presence, choosing the best ones is not an easy job.
Tile Tabs
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Tile Tabs is much more than entertaining sight to behold. This powerful addon gives you a chance to work with different websites at once by arranging opened tabs in a grid which you can resize and reorganize. By part the perspectives you can make tab groups and different layouts that can be saved or even exported. Tile Tabs providing many options which are described in detail on the addon website. It’s fun to play around with this addon, as it really changes your browsing experience. In case you’re into multitasking, Tile Tabs is your new weapon.
Lazarus
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
In case you’ve forever written a forum post, filled out a form or even done some work in WordPress, and then lost it all because your computer froze, your browser crashed or the power went out…well, then you’ve known the ultimate prevention of the online world. Firefox users can rely on Lazarus, a form recovery addon, to prevent this from happening. It saves the lot you type into forms and text boxes in an encrypted database in your Firefox profile folder, and restore text when it gets lost. Some clients have reported problems and dissatisfaction with Lazarus, so if you’re one of them, you can replace it with a similar addon called Form History Control.
Private Tab
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
This addon is applied for those who don’t want to use the Private Browsing mode all the time, yet want to keep some things hidden. Tabs as private, which means they won’t be recorded in your browsing history. Tabs marked as private are distinguished from regular tabs by the underlined tab name. With Private Tab, you can also create private bookmarks; that is, save links which will always open in private tabs by adding “private:” in front of their URL (like private:https://www.beebom.com).
Stylish
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
By applying CSS rules to websites which load in your browser, you can change everything from colors and images to fonts and element positioning. Fundamentally, Stylish lets you apply skins to websites as you would apply them to your desktop or applications. If you can write your own skins or choose from hundreds of styles available for free at userstyles.org. Stylish scripts can affect the look of all websites, just the specified ones, or the interface of Firefox itself.
NoScript
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
NoScript is the ultimate security addon for Firefox that’s often recommended all around the Web. It prevents clickjacking, cross-site scripting attacks and blocks loading of JavaScript, Flash, Java and other active content on websites we don’t trust. The Preferences dialog lets we set up every detail of NoScript and establish basic rules, but we can change them dynamically as you visit different websites and permit them to load content. If you can whitelist entire domains or URLs and force websites to use HTTPS(Hypertext transfer protocol Secure). NoScript offers the opt-out DoNotTrack feature and many more useful twists that will make your browsing secure.
Resurrect Pages
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Load to fail websites and links we click don’t work, but that doesn’t mean the content is lost forever. After all, websites are constantly scraped and cached by different services, and it’s often possible to access an older version or a snapshot externally “dead” page. This addon helps you find cached or mirrored versions of websites so that we can view them even when they seem unreachable. You can access Resurrect Pages from the Firefox context menu (right-click menu), from the toolbar button or through a keyboard shortcut. Additionally integrate with the default error message for unreachable pages, where you’ll be able to search through several cache sources.
DownThemAll
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
DownThemAll is one of the most popular addons for Firefox. It’s a download manager and accelerator which helps you download files from anywhere on the Web, and lets you pause and resume downloads even if you close the browser. You can download the entire website in a single click, or filter just one type of content (like JPG images) and fix them from a website. DownThemAll splits your files into chunks, which enables amazingly fast downloads.
Clean Links
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Whereas browsing the Web, you have meeting different types of links, often without even noticing it. Likewise, we sometimes click the links which aren’t transparent; in other words, which don’t make it clear what is behind them. Clean Links is an addon that converts complicated and nested links into plain links. It can also remove link and tracking tags from advertisement URLs. The Preferences dialog lets you change the color of cleaned links, among a few other things.
TabMixPlus
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
TabMixPlus is the absolute must-have addon in my collection, and many Firefox users would agree. When it comes to tab management and tuning the behavior of your browser, only a few other addons come close to TabMixPlus. If you can define what happens when you middle-click or double-click on tabs and the tab bar, as well as configure what loads in blank tabs and how the newly opened tabs should be ordered. You can merge, protect and lock tabs, undo closed tabs, toggle animations and enable the Reload Every option. TabMixPlus can also manage your Firefox sessions, save opened tabs and edit the context (right-click) menus.
NoSquint
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Latest design is amazing, and there are so many fantastic fonts out there, but not all of them are suitable for the Web. Also, not all colors make for a good text background, and if the combination of the color and font size is wrong, the website might strain your eyes or turn out to be downright unreadable. NoSquint can fix this by letting you set global or site-specific zoom levels, and change front and background colors.
Prevent Tab Overflow
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
This addon is a protector for anyone who regularly has a lot of tabs open. It prevents tabs from “overflowing” by reducing their size, so that more tabs can fit into the tab bar at once. It can also perform some other cosmetic tricks that save the precious tab bar space, like removing the Close buttons, making pinned tabs slimmer, and hiding blank tab favicons.
URL Fixer
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Typos happen and can be annoying, especially in the browser, because they either result in an error or take you to a website that you never wanted to see. URL Fixer is based on a simple premise – it corrects typos in the address bar, essentially working like an auto-correct function in the browser. Apart from default substitutions, you can add your own URL fixes and changes in the Preferences dialog. URL Fixer can remember changes and add them to the list automatically.
Multifox
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Multifox solves the problem of having to switch between multiple email or social media accounts by letting you open each in a individual tab. It makes a profile for every account so that they don’t interfere with each other. If you can have as many profiles as you want, and it’s possible to rename them according to their function.
Flashblock
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Flash videos that start playing as soon as the website loads can be terribly annoying. Flasblock is an addon that blocks Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight and even HTML5 media content, and lets you play it only if and when you want. To activate blocked videos, simply click the Play button in the Flashblock placeholder. You can whitelist websites, but be careful – Flashblock reportedly won’t work if JavaScript is disabled via another addon or through default Firefox settings.
URL Alias
15 Best Firefox Addons For Better Browsing
Linux users who don’t shy away from the command line will be familiar with the concept of aliases, and will surely appreciate the ability to use them in Firefox. Aliases are custom shorthands, or “textual shortcuts” that you can use to avoid typing entire URLs or long chunks of text. For example, you can set an alias “ma” for “http://mail.google.com”, and just type “ma” into the address bar whenever you want to access Gmail. Some more advanced configuration options are explained in the Preferences dialog.