Firefox is a great browser, and has it’s convenience for certain things. By itself it’s pretty good, but far from private and efficient. Here’s a list of extensions that will make you way more productive!
Firefox Extensions
Clippings
This extension is useful to store an organized collection of text, so it’s easily accessible, and you don’t have to type it all over again.
ColorfulTabs
This extension goes well with Tree Style Tab (scroll down), and assigns a color to each tab based on the domain to help you keep your place when trying to find tabs.
Get ColorfulTabs – Requires Restart
colorPicker
This is a must-have for web designers and developers alike to quickly copy color selections to your clipboard.
FlashBlock
Save tons of memory by blocking flash components by default, and click-to-play functionality with site whitelisting option.
Get FlashBlock – Requires Restart
LastPass
The last password you’ll ever remember. Compare to 1Password and Dashlane. This extension requires a LastPass.com account, saves and generates encrypted passwords, and has mobile device support as well. Strongly recommended!
Get LastPass (LastPass.com) – Requires Restart
Get LastPass (Mozilla) – Requires Restart
Nimbus Screen Capture
This extension lets you take all sorts of screenshots and selective captures of websites, and post them or save them as image files locally.
Tree Style Tab
This extension is by far the most helpful one i’ve ever installed. Never lose your place, and say goodbye to scrolling horizontally through hundreds of tabs.
Get Tree Style Tab – Experimental, Requires Restart
REST Easy
This extension allows you to send API requests directly from a browser tab, and analyze responses, view JSON, and much more. Must have for developers, comparable to Postman for Chrome.
uBlock Origin
This extension is a no-brainer, and should be installed by default (in my opinion). Just remember to update the filter rules every once in a while, and say goodbye to ads forever! Don’t forget to whitelist this site, I will never serve anything other than Adsense.
cliget
CLIGET is an extension of Firefox’s default download manager, which offers you the additional option of copying a command string to paste in SSH to wget, curl, and aria2 for downloading files as if the server was your browser. It works by simply copying the request headers into the command-specific format. Highly recommended for Server Administrators.
Conclusion
If you found this list useful, please share! This is by no means a complete list, just a list I found useful for a less annoying browsing experience and performance boost. If you know of a plugin that should be on this list, let me know!