Top 10 Firefox Add-Ons
Here is my list of the top 10 Firefox add-ons. Some pertain more heavily to webmasters, but I consider them good tools for everybody that browses the internet. Each one of these add-ons have separate uses, and can make your internet browsing experience more enjoyable, or easier than it already is.
- Digg Firefox Extension 0.4.3:The Digg Firefox extension allows you to interact with Digg (http://www.digg.com) and see information about the web page you are currently viewing while you use Firefox.
I just recently started using this extension, and I’ve already experienced it’s awesomeness. Without even downloading it, it’s obvious that it’s going to be a great add-on. For any site that doesn’t include a digg button, you’ve now got one built into your web browser! - PicLens: Full-Screen, 3D — PicLens transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for enjoying online photos and videos. Our interactive “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images and YouTube videos faster and more immersively than ever before. Demo here
PicLens is one of the top most downloaded add-ons on the firefox website. Why it’s awesome; it makes it easy to find what you’re looking for on image and video sites. The webmaster feature is great too, if you’re thinking of installing a photoblog, than you should probably download PicLens. - Wizz RSS: A constantly improving RSS and Atom feed reader. It is fairly powerful, feature rich and is well supported.
Right now, it’s the best RSS reader out there, there is a few bugs, but hopefully they will be sorted out in later versions. - FireFix 0.7.6: Learns and corrects mistyped web addresses typed in the address bar
I find this plugin pretty useful, it only makes a small difference, and if you never make any spelling errors, than it’s useless. I’m pretty sure tons of people on the internet make a typo when spelling google though, so it’s nice to have something correct our errors for us. - Others Online: Real people. Online now. Relevant to you. Discover people relevant to your Web browsing and other interests, on every page you visit, while you’re signed in. See what you have in common, their blog or Web site, and online status — even chat or email users privately. The more you use the toolbar, the more you find in common with others — and the more traffic you earn to your site!
Not really sure how this works to get more traffic to your site, but it sounds cool, and looks good. It’s also pretty fun. - Video Download Helper: The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
Self-explanatory really, most people have heard of these types of plugins. Which make available the option to download videos off of youtube and other sites. - DashBlog: DashBlog lets you quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (word press, blogger/blogspot, tumblr) and/or twitter.
I like the other features of this add-on, which allow you to take screen captures, and then draw/comment on the pictures. The add-on basically speeds up the usual process of copying/pasting, or downloading and reuploading. - StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
Stumbleupon is currently my favorite firefox plugin. It’s gotten loads of traffic to my websites, and is second only to digg in that category. It’s also fun to stumble around different sites in your interest zones. - Simple Mail: With Simple Mail you can get notified, read and write email messages inside Firefox.
This is useful for me, because without it, I’d be constantly opening up my mail client to read/write/receive messages. This plug in makes reading your mail a lot more practical. 
Tab Effect: Add effects when current tab is changed…
Just a fun little addon, so you can be visually stunned when changing your tabs.
And that… is my top 10
Fireshot get’s an honorable mention, because I almost listed it.