HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

April 07, 2009

My Firefox Extensions

(This post appears as part of our Tech Tuesday series.)

The single biggest reason why Firefox is my browser of choice is the wide variety of add-ons.

Here is a list of my Firefox tweaks and extensions with a short explanation of each.

Delicious Bookmarks - allows me to quickly post links to our Health Disparities Blog page at Delicious.

Feed Sidebar - this add-on allows any RSS feeds you have in your Live Bookmarks to be displayed in the sidebar.

Adblock Plus - helps to make webpages less noisy by restricting many banners and advertisements.

Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X - one of the most annoying things on a Mac is clicking on a PDF file only to have it download to the desktop before opening. This plugin will allow Firefox to open the PDF directly.

Twitterfox - allows you to view tweets and update your status via Firefox. Also allows you to manage multiple accounts.

Zotero - a terrific add-on that allows you to save snapshots of webpages for offline viewing. It can also be used as a reference manager similar to EndNote and works with Microsoft Word and Open Office. Version 1.5 Beta includes a sync function where you can store your reference library in the cloud for access from a different computer.

CustomizeGoogle - My favorite feature of CustomizeGoogle is the streaming search results. No longer do you need to click page after page to get more results. As you near the bottom of the first page of results CustomizeGoogle streams the next page of results. All you need to do is continue scrolling down.

What are your favorite FF tweaks and add-ons?