Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day.
Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well.
Mozila also just released a new interface to showcase some of the top Firefox addons, which will surely bring a lot of new users to those plugins featured there.
Your Favorites
We asked our readers and Twitter followers about their favorite apps and, as expected, received a wide variety of answers. For web developers, Firebug was clearly a winner, though a lot of you also mentioned Greasemonkey, the bookmarking plugin de.licio.us, and DownloadHelper. Other favorites included Ubiquity, and FoxMarks, AdBlock Plus (though we hope you disable it on RWW and your other favorite websites), and Tab Mix Plus.
Our Favorites
Among the RWW staff, Sarah Perez listed the magazine-style RSS reader Feedly and the FFHolic Toolbar for FriendFeed users as some of her favorites.
Rick Turoczy is a big fan of the CoolIris plugin that allows you to browse pictures and videos in a very pretty 3D environment, though he also likes Iterasi, which allows you to take live snapshots of any web page. (Disclosure: Iterasi is one of Rick's consulting clients, but he assures as that he likes it so much that would use it anyway)
Richard MacManus likes StumbleUpon and the Google Toolbar.
Other favorites among the rest of the staff here included ColorfulTabs, Evernote's Web Clipper, and the Google Notebook plugin.
Also, all of us at RWW try to use our sponsors' products, so we are currently checking out AdaptiveBlue's Glue as well.
Did We Miss Something?
These are just some of the plugins we and our readers are using (and we surely missed quite a few). Did we miss your favorite? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
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huge (& awesome) milestone!
other than shareaholic (i'm biased of course) -- searchstatus, firebug, and greasemonkey are in my must have list.
Better Gmail, and Better GReader. I wouldn't be caught dead without em.
FireFTP - basic ftp client for Firefox.
Hi! Ubiquity's url is wrong. This is the link now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity
On a near future we will have a new site, but for now it's the wiki =P
Oh, you can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9527 too.
Cheers!
There are so many awesome ones. FireFTP is a great one.
There are some great Web Developer plugins for Firefox, Ive listed all my top 16 Web Developer firefox extensions here:
http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=34
Fasterfox to make your mozilla browser fastest than the default.. yeah.. :)
iMacros, its like Excel macros, but for Firefox. A good way to automate routine tasks and save your fingers from undue stress. Definitely my most used addon.
There are so many awesome ones. FireFTP is a great one.
There are some great Web Developer plugins for Firefox, Ive listed all my top 16 Web Developer firefox extensions here:
http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=34
I find it curious that you didn't mention ad block plus. It's obvious from the twitter snippet in the post that you got a lot of input on that one.
I certainly hope this is just a simple oversight and not an example of your desire to "monetize" affecting your editorial freedom.
Check out KwiClick. Kinda new, but does some really interesting stuff like overlay google search results directly on your active window so theres no need to visit google.com:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5655
FireFTP (especially as a button on the Google Toolbar); ForecastFox (weather on the status bar); Sage (RSS feed reader); Web Developer toolkit
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@Todd - totally my fault - I just added it to the list.
As a webdeveloper I love the WebDeveloper plugin.
Password hasher is a must have for me. Never seen a better or more secure way of managing passwords.
Coolris sounds interesting, but "This platform is not supported yet.". Firefox 3 on ubuntu, not really an offbeat combination.
No doubt about it, Firefox is the best browser out there.
jess
http://www.privacy-center.vze.com
Read Write Web Fail, Adblock is the single best Firefox add-on. Especially when combined with filterset.g
links here and here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136
Flashblock
Puts a play icon where all the flash movies on the page are
speeds up browsing and cuts down on deceptive flash-like links
firebug is my favorite one... Others i found interesting are FaviconizeTab, web developer toolbar, adblockplus...and IETab
Google preview - google will never be the same without it
Tab Mix Plus - pretty handy
Snap Links - To open different links on new tabs in one mouse gesture
lastpass - best way to have your passwords (pretty new)
ChunkIt! Awesome search add-on - has helped me on so many research papers, I can't even count:
www.getchunkit.com
What about Stumbleupon?!?! :]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Adblock Plus? Rilly?? Did we miss something? YEAH, you missed something, like actually posting anything relevant we netizens haven't seen or heard of before. I read this on DIGG, geniuses, meaning that we've already seen whatever breadcrumb addonss your bleeding-edge staff are using about a year ago. Maybe you could post this instead to the quilting or macramé sites around the toobs. Maybe they'll appreciate your visionary insight. Until then, stop asking your underpaid staffers "Hey, guys, whatcha got installed on ur browsers?"
You did forget something - throughout the whole article - descriptions of what the plugins are! You think I have time to sit here and click through every link just because you mentioned it? Try adding descriptions next time, and maybe you'll find that people are more inclined to turn off ABP on your site.
My favorite is AdBlockPlus and NoScript.
Shareaholic! For sharing with Digg, Delicious, Twitter, and a bunch of others.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5457
I agree there are a lot of great plugins for Mozilla.
I like the de.licio.us plugin. Looking forward to using
more plugins.
thanks from tony
A good half of these are "AdBlock Plus." ;)
My favorite startpage is http://www.symbaloo.com/ it has a nice plugin for Firefox
huge (& awesome) milestone!
Adblock is the single best Firefox add-on. Especially when combined with filterset.g
The del.icio.us plugin is vital.
I also love an add-on I discovered just recently - Copy Plain Text (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134) - which allows one to do just as its name says, from a Web page. An absolute necessity for Web workers, in my opinion. Now that I have it, I couldn't live without it.
My favorite is AdBlockPlus and NoScript.
Firefox rocks.
My favorite is AdBlockPlus and NoScript..
huge (& awesome) milestone!!