In anticipation of the imminent release of Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has relaunched its “recommended add-ons page” this afternoon. (Update: FF 2.0 has officially launched.) The page lost its beta status and gained a picture of a flaming motorcycle (see below). Out goes the old list of 11 recommendations and in comes a new list of 20. The lists are quite different and there are both winners and losers. One company just added to the list told us they saw 2,500 downloads in the first hour after the new add-ons page was quietly made available.
New to the List
Adblock Plus by Wladimir Palant
It’s funny to imagine what many advertisers’ reactions will be when they see this plug-in officially sanctioned by Mozilla. It had to be on the list by popular demand, though, if for no other reason.
blueorganizer by Adaptive Blue
We profiled blueorganizer briefly at DEMO. It’s a smart tool for organizing the information you discover online.
Clipmarks by Clipmarks
An interesting social bookmarking tool with a strong emphasis on sharing and excerpts.
Cooliris Previews by The Cooliris Team
A plug in that provides pop-up previews of Google, image and other search results from inside the search results page. I don’t care for this at all, but I do like the company’s new photo slide show plug-in for Safari.
Download Statusbar by Devon Jensen
A feature rich download manager that sits in a toolbar that hides when not in use.
FoxyTunes by Alex Sirota
A music player control panel that sits in the browser, so you don’t have to switch applications.
Greasemonkey by Aaron Boodman
It’s great that Greasemonkey is included in this list. It’s a whole different paradigm, allowing user-developed JavaScript to be set on top of any web page.
JAJAH by Gilad Katz
We’ve written about Jajah here, it lets you make free and low cost phone calls around the world from inside your browser or by cell phone. Michael Arrington called it a killer VOIP product.
Map+ by Ara Agopian
A very simple tool that launches a Yahoo! Map of any address you highlight on a web page. I use this and like it quite a bit, when I remember to use it.
Pronto by Pronto, Inc.
Alerts you while shopping online if it can find the same product for a lower price on another shopping site.
Other new stars include ChatZilla, an IRC chat plug-in, the web page development tool FireBug, a related project called Web Developer, FireFTP, multi-link downloader FlashGot and weather tool Forecastfox.
Still in the Game
The following ad-ons have survived the purge and remain on the recommended plug-ins list from the beta days of the Mozilla program.
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer by Foxmarks LLC
Mitch Kapor’s tool to sync Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers you use. Kapor recently wrote that he is working on a new search startup based on the work he’s done with Foxmarks.
Jeteye by Jeteye Technologies, Inc.
Not a bookmark manager, a Jet-pack collection builder. Whatever. I’ve always thought this one was too strange to fly.
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox by Jerry Luk
A plug-in that provides one-click opt out from LinkedIn. Just kidding! Many people like LinkedIn and this lets you have fast access to your contacts.
Performancing by Jed Brown
The Performancing folks made a Firefox plug-in that enables very rich blog posting with ease. Loads of people love it.
Sage by The Sage Team
A side bar RSS reader. If it suits you, fine, but I find a desktop reader much more useful for reading a large number of feeds.
StumbleUpon by Geoff Smith
Another crowd pleaser, StumbleUpon introduces you to random web pages enjoyed by people with interests similar to your own. See our coverage of it here. StumbleUpon was also selected as a recomended plug-in for IE 7 so they are on a roll.
Yoono by Yoono
A TechCrunch sponsor that recommends web pages similar to the ones you are on based on your interests.
Cut From the List
These plug-ins were recommended yesterday – but now they are not. The links are to their extensions on the Firefox site.
Answers
A plug-in that lets you click on any word, push the option key and get info about the word in Answers.com. I use Diigo (our coverage) and get a whole lot more options just as easily. Update: Mike Shaver, who manages the add ons site responded in comments and said that it was only an error that Answers wasn’t included on the list.
del.icio.us
This plug-in makes del.icio.us easy to use inside Firefox and integrates it with the search box. See above, I use Diigo, sync it with del.icio.us and get this and much more.
PayPal Send Money
A plug in that takes you to your PayPal log in page to send some one money. Speaking of my PayPal log in, I think there’s something wrong with mine. Excuse me while I confirm my username and password with this site I just found.
A new version came out just two weeks ago, but it didn’t make the cut.
Congratulations to all the new additions to the list. They are a lucky group that can expect to see a helpful jump in their user numbers.
FireBug is my favorite of the list…Good to see it in there…I would have also loved to see FoxMarks here as well.
Gotta say I’m not a big fan of many of those extensions. I do like StumbleUpon (a lot).
David.
In anticipation of the imminent release of Firefox 2.0
It was officially released a few hours ago
Yeah, StumpleUpon is my fav also.
Any way to see if my current extensions (1.5.0.7) will works in the new version of Firefox?
“Flashblock” should come standard on Firefox, it’s an awesome add-on. Blocks those annoying as hell “fly across your screen” and “in your face” advertisements. It puts a “placeholder” wherever a flash item is on a page, with a “play” button if you want to activate it.
The list changes frequently/dynamically. At least it does for me. I suspect the list changes based on the popularity of all of the downloaded Add-ons. It’s not set in stone.
Hi there. I manage the add-ons site for Mozilla, including the recommended list in question. The omission of Answers was an error on my part (it’s in the list on the staging site, but I didn’t update it correctly on the live site), and has now been remedied.
The previous Del.icio.us extension has been replaced by a pretty cool new one from Yahoo now, but we didn’t have a chance to check it out fully for the rec list before launch, so I only managed to put it in there now.
Glad to see you like the motorbike; it’s been the source of much conversation over here, I tell you.
Mike
Thanks for the info Mike. Stop by any time.
My fave is the YouTube search.
http://mycroft....bmitform=Search
Its a nice way to make your browser into a dog’s breakfast, installing all those plugins. Thats one (of many) reasons I perfer Safari — there are 2-3 essential plugins — inquisitor, safaristand — and forget the rest.
Then safari must be missing lot of user-driven extensibles.
where is mouse gestures? where is customize google. Are these part of 2.0. I use them extensively.
Glad Answers.com wasn’t scratched. Use it all the time. I also use Diigo, but it doesn’t replace Ctrl+Alt clicking words.
Zotero is a very cool bibliographic manager that can store notes and snapshots of webpages and online articles & will autmatically save citation metadata.
I would recommend the Google browser sync add-on. Its a great alternative to the “Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer” and it uses you Google account.
More information can be found here:
http://www.goog...ox/browsersync/
An interesting list but my favourite is the tails extension for detecting/reading microformats within websites.
The other I have come across recently is the Google Browser Sync which lets me capture each session on line and if I move to another machine it resotres that session on the new FF browser.
Nice reviews, but I am a little surprised that the following did not feature in that list:
1. myurlbar_1 (https://addons....g/firefox/1722/): Highly recommended for those who have a lot of bookmarks.
2. Mouse Gestures (https://addons....org/firefox/39/): Increases the browsing speed by a considerable amount.
3. Scrapbook (https://addons....rg/firefox/427/): Helps you store full/portions of webpages locally in the most elegant manner.
Moreover, I am little surprised about the JAJAH extension. The feedback on the addons page tells a different tale.
AdBlock Plus looks like a great product – and so does FlashBlock in Steven’s post above. What are advertisers going to do?
Look for “Widget Marketing” to become more popular. I ran across this blog today:
http://opengard...idget_widg.html
Good writeup.
I would have added Drag de go:
https://addons....g/firefox/2918/
I love being able to highlight text and send it directly to Google by just draging it a little. Plus dragging links to open them in a focused (or not) tab is better than having to reach up and hit the open-apple.
Mouse Gestures is a definate oversight from the list… I wouldn’t use a browser without them now that I have been using them for the last month. I use all-in-one gestures but other options are available.
Platypus is a great tool for customizing how web sites appear. It is totally superior to adblock for those who love minimalistic webbrowsing of favorite sites or dark themes. Point and click operation for non-programmers. Per site automation when used in combination with GreaseMonkey. So simple and so powerful. http://platypus.mozdev.org
Stylish is great for modding web page diplay as well. I use it to super-slim all my menubars, tabs, status bars.
more (including non-firefox windows add-ons like StrokeIt-MouseGestures for windows and Eprompter-web mail notifier) at my blog: http://dbaddo.blogspot.com
Anyone know what the deal is with ColorZilla not working on Intel Macs?
If you like Greasemonkey, you will love iMacros: It does not change websites, but helps you automate them: https://addons....g/firefox/3863/
Michel
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Well I am a great fan of Mozilla. As I got Internet at my home I decided to use Mozilla Firefox. It has many features and with addons you can just personalize them. I use Flashgot and AdBlock Plus. These tool are really cool.. FireFox — The Best Browser…10/10.
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