My fave Firefox addons
Here are some of the Firefox addons I’ve been using in an educational context for the past 5 years or so. The links take you to the pages that explain what each addon does:
Essential
Good to have
Nice to have
Web Development
*The essential search addon*
- MyCroft Project searchbar addon Add this to your Firefox searchbar by clicking the ‘MyCroft Project – All’ link on the page this takes you to, and then use it from your searchbar to find all the available Firefox search addons you’ll ever need. There are thousands. You can also go to the MyCroft page and find searchbar addons from there. Here’s the Mozilla MyCroft page link. Test the ones you install, because some work better than others.
Here are some of the search addons I use regularly from my Firefox searchbar. (no links here, sorry – you’ll have to find them yourself in MyCroft):
- Dictionary.com
- Thesaurus.com
- Urban Dictionary
- Wikipedia
- Websters Online Dictionary
- Word Reference en – definition
- YouTube
- HowStuffWorks
- Quotation Book – Search
- Google Scholar
- Google Trends
- Download.com
- Amazon.com
- Yotophoto.com
- Yahoo images (better than Google Images because it has Flickr, but don’t use this in class because you occasionally get uncensored nude pics)
The searchbar is one of Firefox’s strongest features. Having the right addons greatly enhances Firefox’s functionality. I’ll write another post on this at some other time.
