Updated: August 23rd, 2009

By: Garin Kilpatrick

The following four Firefox Add-ons work for either Windows or Apple OS X version of the Firefox Web Browser and have the potential to make your Web Browsing experience more organized and awesome all around!

As you can see in the Top of my browser icons are added beside the address bar where I can easily view my feedly feeds (green icon) or tag a Website with delicious.

1. Feedly

Feedly for Firefox is a very cool way to import your favorite feeds into a magazine like layout. Feedly has integrated twitter support, and powerful commenting and search. Check out this quick guided video tour of feedly in HD.

2. Google Preview

Google Preview allows you to view a preview image while searching, enabling you to view a site before you visit it.  If you like the idea of viewing preview images of websites while you search check out this link to a post on 3 ways to Preview sites you search for.

Google Preview has 6,924,000 downloads already and this is significant because these millions of people have already built the preview image database.  A pre-existing image database means that load times for searching remain fast despite the images.

3. TwitterFox

TwitterFox is an add on for Firefox that will give you an easy to use Interface for Twitter.  Twitterfox is accessible via a small icon on the status bar, and this icon also shows you the number of updates that have received since the last time you clicked it.

4. Delicious Bookmarks

The Delicious Bookmarks add on is perhaps my favorite of all.  I like delicious because it allows me to access my bookmarks from anywhere, and easily share them with my friends.  It is the add on that I use the most often, and I use it with multiple accounts.  There is no sense of me re-explaining how it works because delicious has already built a page that will give you a quick tour of the features that have helped it receive almost five million downloads.

5. Firebug Live Web Development

As you can see from the picture below, each of the above add-ons has an icon in the status bar.  The one application icon in the bar below to the left of “GP” is a bug icon for the add-on Firebug. Firebug is a cool web development tool that allows you to inspect any element of a webpage, like the html or css, and make live changes.  This is a great tool for beginner and advanced web developers alike, but slows down the web browsing considerably if left running in the background.

Summary

The above Firefox add-ons are only a good few of a large many. There are literally thousands of add-ons available for Firefox.  The current stats from the mozilla website tally 1,516,119,146 add-ons downloaded and 174,639,202 add-ons in use.

Feedback:

What is your favorite Firefox add-on?  Would you add the add-ons in the article above? Disqus commenting is below.