Wednesday, August 31, 2011

3 Add-ons to Greatly Improve Your Firefox Performance!

Firefox
I am a Firefox fan. I have been used Firefox since 2007, at that time, the version is just at Firefox 2. Before that I have used other browsers too, like IE, Opera, Safari and other IE-based browsers, but none of them surprised me so much as Firefox do.

The best of Firefox is beyond itself but the add-ons. Millions of add-ons provides with various functions we needed. If you want a function, install an add-on. You can remove it as you like if not needed. After so many years of Firefox using experiences, I have reduced my add-on list down to only 3. With these 3 add-ons, Firefox performances could be greatly improved.

1.Adblock Plus
This add-on remains on the top list for all Firefox users. It is delicately designed to block the ads on webpages. After adding the add-on, you need to subscribe a few "Filter Subscription", usually in different languages, just choose according to your own need.

2.DownloadHelper
What do you usually do when surfing on the internet. Let me guess! Most of people either read news or watching online videos (or listening online music). For many video sharing websites such the most famous YouTube, it doesn't offer a "download" link for you to save the video onto your local drive. So this add-on will help you now. After installing the add-on, when you open a webpage, it will automatically pick out the download hyperlink for you. Then you could download the videos with just one mouse click!

3.Greasemonkey
A very powerful add-on to enhance your web browsing experiences. Most of the add-ons are designed to add functions to Firefox, but this one is different, it changes the webpage code! You need to install scripts so that Greasemonkey could work. Here are my script choices:

(1)userscripts updater:
You should install this script first, so that the scripts installed later could be updated automatically if new versions are available.

(2)super next page:
It will automatically load the next page in background process, save you lots of time especially when you are reading novels or forums.

(3)google multi-account login:
It enables you to login several google account at the same time. You can easily switch between the account without typing in account name and password any more.

This is how I use Firefox. I am the person long for simplicity, the less the better, so the 3 Firefox add-ons above are quite enough for me!

What other great add-ons are you using, plz feel free to share with us below in the comment field.

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