Rock Your Firefox: the Firefox 4 Collection

Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011

Introducing the Firefox 4 add-on collection! We selected 10 of the best add-ons that will make Firefox 4 rock even more…

We’re celebrating the launch of Firefox 4 with the Firefox 4 collection! Our add-on developer community sent in their add-ons for consideration, and we selected 10 of the best that will make your Firefox 4 rock even more.

You can download Firefox 4 at firefox.com, and experience an upgrade in speed, a fresh user interface and awesome new features, including the new Add-ons Manager.

If you’re ready to dive in, here are the ten Firefox 4 add-ons featured in the Firefox 4 collection:

  • Tab Scope: Tab Scope lets you preview your open tabs with a thumbnail image just by hovering over them
  • Apture Highlights: Highlight a word or phrase, and Apture Highlights will search the web and provide information all without having to leave the page.
  • Thumbnail Zoom: Shows a full size image when you hover over thumbnails on popular websites like Facebook, Twitter or Picassa.
  • QuickFox Notes: Take notes when you’re browsing the web, and store them for easy access later.
  • FoxySpider: Crawls the website you’re browsing for you, and displays video clips, images and other files in an easy to use thumbnail gallery.
  • KwiClick: highlight text to get search results, maps, videos and more – within the page you’re browsing.
  • Awesome Screenshot: Screen-capture the whole page or a selection, then annotate with comments or drawings and upload to share.
  • Drag & DropZones: Assign search engine queries or actions to ‘drop-zones’ that appear when you drag text, images or links.
  • Mouse Control: Navigate tabs even faster with mouse click combinations from anywhere in a tab.
  • Instantfox: search the web using your address bar, with short cuts for search engines and other popular websites, like Amazon, Wikipedia or YouTube.

Get the entire Firefox 4 Add-on collection.

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  1. gnom

    FoxySpider is trialware. Bleh.

    March 22nd, 2011 at 12:53 pm

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  2. Carlo

    fantastic<!

    April 5th, 2011 at 4:21 pm

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  3. Dankbud

    ummmm..adblock plus should be #1

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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  4. jimx29

    Mine used to be nosquint and forecast fox, But I can’t get either one of the to work correctly after the move to FF4

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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  5. pampinageorgiou

    like

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:43 pm

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  6. Tongkat

    FireBug has to be in the top ten?!

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:44 pm

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  7. Wanto

    I used add-ons for developers tools. That’s for electibility use

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:48 pm

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  8. deathgleaner

    AwesomeScreenshot is truly awesome. Best screen capturing ever!

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:57 pm

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    1. Breno

      The best add-on from this list. ^^

      April 5th, 2011 at 10:40 pm

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    2. You

      it would be awsome if they add copy to clipboard feature like Pixlr Graber – save a lot of time

      April 6th, 2011 at 7:29 am

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  9. Nirab Sarma

    Awesome collection…..I have shared it on my blog …

    April 5th, 2011 at 8:59 pm

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  10. Mister

    *Gasp!* You haven’t included Firebug! For shame.

    Firebug is THE best add-on! Makes my life _SO_ much easier.

    After that, I think Web Developer toolbar has got to be there.

    (No points for guessing what my job / passion is…)

    April 5th, 2011 at 9:01 pm

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  11. Presiden IDIOTNESIA

    ABP isn’t listed? Argh….

    April 5th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

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  12. Nancy M.

    Is there a good add-on form filler? I need one for contesting purposes, one that lets me keep identities and passcards. Thanks!

    April 5th, 2011 at 9:03 pm

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    1. Dan Horner

      Try LastPass – we featured this in March: http://rockyourfirefox.com/2011/03/lastpass-password-manager/

      June 1st, 2011 at 7:36 am

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  13. Moacir

    I liked AwesomeScreenshot, TabScope and AptureHighlights!

    April 5th, 2011 at 9:22 pm

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  14. Alex

    Firebug and Web Developer are the top ads for developers, also agree with ‘deathgleaner’, Awesome Screenshot is an Awesome Screenshot addon :)

    April 5th, 2011 at 9:58 pm

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  15. Brandon Goodrick

    These addons aren’t too bad. I’d have to say that my favorite on the list is thumbnail zoom. I don’t think any of these would make it onto my top 10, but to each their own! :)

    April 5th, 2011 at 10:07 pm

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  16. MrLoVEr

    I need firefox in my iPhone :(

    April 5th, 2011 at 10:21 pm

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  17. trastaf

    Adblock Plus, the best

    April 5th, 2011 at 10:25 pm

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  18. David Nemes

    Awesome Screenshot is pretty awesome

    April 5th, 2011 at 10:34 pm

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  19. noname

    AdBlock !!!

    April 5th, 2011 at 10:39 pm

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  20. Artem Deykun

    Thx, very good collection!

    April 5th, 2011 at 11:14 pm

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  21. anandy

    nice post M4 is user friendly :)

    April 5th, 2011 at 11:43 pm

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  22. David

    Thank you!! Awesome addons!

    April 5th, 2011 at 11:47 pm

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  23. Ameer

    Drag and Drop Zones works well for a while but is riddled with bugs.

    April 5th, 2011 at 11:52 pm

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  24. Tobse

    the best one is still “AdBlock PLUS”. and it will ever be the best addon!

    April 6th, 2011 at 12:13 am

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  25. theo

    How about AdblockPlus and FlashBlock? They are so important, yet they get no love? :(

    April 6th, 2011 at 12:24 am

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  26. anon

    thumbnail zoom is definitely the app ive been waiting and looking for.

    April 6th, 2011 at 12:28 am

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  27. Appy

    Screenshot, awesome it is..

    April 6th, 2011 at 1:28 am

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  28. Girish Mony

    Very interesting list. Should try awesome screenshots and foxy spider

    April 6th, 2011 at 2:58 am

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  29. David Lillywhite

    I love the FB Purity extension, it cleans up Facebook by letting you hide all the crappy Facebook Features that you dont want to see: http://www.fbpurity.com

    April 6th, 2011 at 3:47 am

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  30. MrMiran

    Don’t forget two of my faves… Colorful Tabs, and AdBlock+

    April 6th, 2011 at 5:10 am

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  31. Joe Milbach

    Web developer here and I really enjoy using Firebug and Fireresizer. For enjoying Facebook I like the add-on Boost.

    April 6th, 2011 at 5:16 am

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  32. Daniel

    Wonder why ABP+ is not listed. Because it’s on the top 12 of addons that slow down FF startup? ABP+ alone count for 33% why someone should use FF. Another 33% because people working on FF are great and last 33% because FF is excellent in everyway. 1% left because updates comes often so I feel safe.

    April 6th, 2011 at 5:39 am

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    1. Dan Horner

      Hi Daniel, this list of 10 add-ons was compiled from the add-ons we were sent by developers in a competition held earlier this year.

      June 1st, 2011 at 7:34 am

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  33. emaniacs

    firebug is the best.

    April 6th, 2011 at 6:07 am

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  34. David N

    Are any of these for a Mac?

    April 6th, 2011 at 9:40 am

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    1. Dan Horner

      Hi David – these will all work on Mac (I’m a mac user so can vouch for it :) )

      June 1st, 2011 at 7:33 am

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  35. sunil

    they are not d best of firefox
    firefox supports millions of better rocking addons

    April 11th, 2011 at 3:57 am

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  36. erickjohncuevas

    I use WebMail, FireBug, Web Developers tools and ScribeFire.

    This add-ons are more than awesome!

    Thanks to this add-ons .

    April 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pm

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  37. The Aqua Buddha

    I couldn’t live without Stylish. I used to use NoScript and AdBlock+, but I can do the same things with Stylish and a router. I can restyle Facebook to whatever design I want, I can cut out ads I don’t want to see while keeping ads I might be interested in. It’s an awesome extension. Get over it.

    I’m also digging Search Engine Security, Bugmenot, and Friendly Gaming Simplifier.

    April 21st, 2011 at 11:47 am

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  38. Tasos Anastasiadhs

    Rock your firefox gise the new Mozilla Firefox 4 is the best browser has ever created on the pubick web Firefox 4
    is coo00000000000000000000000000000000000l

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    April 28th, 2011 at 11:31 am

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