#9: My Favorite Firefox Add-ons

For those of you who have never heard of Add-ons, they are little additions to Firefox to make your browsing experience better. This is a list of the top Add-ons which I personally use, and highly recommend to everyone. These can either be installed by looking through Firefox's own built in Add-on browser, or by going to Firefox's website, and clicking on the Add-ons tab.

Adblock Plus (Link) is an Add-on for firefox which blocks all ads. This allows your bandwidth to be used much more wisely, and not be wasted on advertisements. The Internet itself gets a much cleaner look as well. After installing Adblock Plus, you will have to restart Firefox. After restarting you will be greeted with a screen to choose which blocklists you want to use, just choose the one which covers your country (most likely the EasyList (USA) blocklist). After choosing your blocklist, say goodbye to ads forever.

QuickRestart (Link) is an Add-on which allows you to restart Firefox very easily. After installing this Add-on, you can restart Firefox by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+R, or you can add a little button to your toolbar in order to restart at the push of a little button. If you right click the Main Bar (the bar which says File - Edit - View - History...), you can choose Customize. After choosing customize, you will be able to drag around different items, add buttons, move toolbars, and customize Firefox to better suit your style. If you scroll down the window that opens up, you should see a QuickRestart button. Click and drag the button to wherever you want, and place it there (I recommend placing it right next to Help for very easy access).

Video DownloadHelper (Link) is an Add-on which allows you to download multimedia files from many streaming websites. After installation, an easy to use button is added to your navigation toolbar which lights up any time there is downloadable content. You can then choose which file you want to download from the dropdown menu, click it, and begin your download. On the site that is called Youtube, which many of you probably frequent, it will add an even more convenient button right next to the video, which will allow even quicker access to downloading the streaming content.

Stylish (Link) is an Add-on which allows you to change the look of websites, according to these styles which you download from Stylish's website, www.userstyles.org. Once you read their website, you can look through all the different Stylishes users have created, and choose which ones you want. My favorite Stylish by far is Darkoogle, which makes Google look like this:

Enough has been said.

Hope you all enjoy these three Add-ons as much as I do, and don't forget to go look at Firefox's website for your own Add-ons, there are plenty to choose from.