50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing

These extensions should work on the latest versions of the Firefox. Use the extensions which work best for *your* needs . The fastest way to install these extensions from developer sites is to drag them to the url bar. Look at these top extensions to manage firefox extensions if you decide to install lots of them. When you upgrade to a new Firefox version, some extensions might not work till the AddOn owners upgrade them, use the Nightly testers tools to remove compatibility issues.

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Control Firefox Tabs

• All-in-One Gestures - merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)


• Tabbrowser Preferences - a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.


• Tab Mix Plus - More tweaks added to tabs. Ability to select and open muliple links in tabs, open link in a duplicated tab, merge tabs and close tabs from similar domain…


• Colorful Tabs - Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface.


• Viamatic foXpose - Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.


• Firefox Showcase - easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.


• Separe - Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab.


• Permatabs - turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs that can't be closed, and stick around between sessions.


• FaviconizeTab - resizes the width of the tab to display the favicon only (and back again).


• Undo Closed Tabs - allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.

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Control Website Links

• Linky - Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.


• Linkification - Allows Firefox to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links


• IE Tab - can open the current page or a selected link embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. Very useful for those IE only pages.


• FirefoxView - Open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer. Adds “View in Firefox” menu items to the content and link context menus.


• Paste and Go - lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the adress bar's context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V


• ErrorZilla - changes the default 404 error page with following choices: a google cache, an archival snapshot from the wayback machine, a ping, a trace route, and a whois lookup.


• Hyperwords - Interact with all the words on the web, not just links!

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