I wrote up my review of Firefox 3 about two weeks ago, but I didn’t go into detail about what has been one of Firefox’s best abilities: it’s ability to be extended with extensions and other plugins. Some people like to extend Firefox to the point where it’s more of a swiss army knife than a browser, and others like to go kind of lite on the extensions. I find myself towards the latter side, but it’s nice that Firefox is so easily extensible because it allows me to fix up a few of Firefox’s shortfalls and even throw in a few bonus features that I can find useful. Firefox has a very nice add-ons database that is very cleanly integrated into Firefox that makes it very easy to install reliable add-ons to the browser. I’ve played with a few of these extensions, and here are the ones that I’ve kept for regular use in my Firefox.
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In a future blog post, I’ll be reviewing Firefox 3 (which I’ve been playing around with for awhile) and the various Firefox extensions that I’ve been using with it. I’d like to ask of the other Firefox users out there if they have any Firefox extensions that they really like and would recommend that I try out. Head on down to the Comments section and share your suggestions (and help me get even more out of Firefox)!

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