Firefox Extensions that Improve the User Experience
After selecting Firefox extensions dedicated to Webmasters, here is the list of best extensions for the Net surfer.
Merging articles subdivided into several parts
Often, even if the user finds interesting an article, when he sees at the bottom of the article: Page 1/5, he prefers to simply go away rather than "browse" web pages, a cut whose sole purpose is often to display more advertising ...
An extension allows you to be dispensed of that: It automatically merges all the pages in one! This also works with digg-likes, and most sites that contain a link: "continue" ... A nice job!
Put Web applications on the desktop
Launching automatically an application often used by clicking on a desktop icon, it is possible thanks to Prism. Note that some applications of Google have their own tool to do so. Prism has the advantage of being universal.
Thumbnails of site as homepage
In practice, the front page of Chrome which presents as thumbnails the most visited sites, is very useful.
But to stay on Firefox (you can guess why... extensions) this feature may be added as well. This is done by this extension.
Thumbnails may be created by drag and drop from bookmarks.
More extensions for the user
Useful to any Net surfer...
- InformEnter. Shows a small icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select in a list the data to be inserted without typing.
- Forecastfox. Display weather anywhere, in a status bar.
- Google Preview. Once the extension installed, Firefox displays a capture of screen of the sites, in the pages of result of Google and Yahoo.
- Flashgot. Download manager.
- Smart Bookmarks. By the M.I.T, for Windows only. Allows to bookmark not only static page, but pages that are obtained only by navigating on a website. Can store a password if it is required in the navigation process.
- Statusbar.
Display a bar of state of a download and thus replaces the window in a less intrusive way. Add also downloading functions. - Cloudlet
Display a tag cloud at top of results of search engines.