Mozilla Firefox is still the favorite web browser for many of you. And now, with the new changes, it looks like it will be everyone's favorite web browser. That is why we are going to tell you four extensions or plugins that we can install in our browser to make it more productive or more usable in our day to day.
It's not that Firefox isn't usable, but that sometimes we need functions that the web browser does not have and we want to use. In this regard, we can complement it with these four extensions or plugins.
uBlock Origin
The ad blocker has become an important add-on. Not only because it blocks and prevents intrusive ads or even malware, but also because it allows faster loading of web pages, being ideal for those who want to browse and go. There are many ad blockers, but the lightest and most functional is uBlock Origin, since its rival, AdBlock Plus, does not stop all the abusive advertising that some web pages have. uBlock Origin can be installed from the Mozilla Firefox extensions and add-ons web.
Dictionary (Google ™ Translate) Anywhere
The Internet has facilitated Globalization and that makes it typical to have to deal with web pages that are written in other languages that we may or may not know. It can also be the case of not knowing a word in a language that we know or master. It is for all this that it is always good to have a dictionary plugin. In this case, my favorite is Dictionary (Google ™ Translate) Anywhere, a plugin that uses the Google Translate API but does not have everything that the Google application offers, being lighter and lighter than the official application.
Print Friendly & PDF
Although now the trend is digital, that is, screens and not paper; sometimes, we want to put a web page on paper or save it in PDF files. This is easy to do thanks to a plugin. In this case I mean the Print Friendly & PDF plugin. This plugin It will allow us to create pdf files of web pages that we want as well as prepare the web pages to be able to print them on paper, saving time, space and paper.
LessPass
In a world where there are many web applications, passwords, user profiles, etc ... A password manager that manages us and saves access safely is increasingly important. There are great options like KeePass, but there are also plugins for the web browser like LessPass. This plugin uses the same technology as KeePass, but it is less complete than the latter. But, unlike the suite, LessPass offers an onboarding with the Firefox web browser.
Conclusion
These plugins or extensions are important but depending on your use, they may not help you due to your specific use. In any case, as happened with Pocket, these extensions may end up being added to the main Firefox program, at least some of them are widely used Don't you think so?
Interesting article.
I would have also added the extension "I don't care about cookies" which eliminates the annoying warnings about the use of cookies.
By now we all know what a cookie is, right?
I hit 2 out of 4, they are very good, thank you very much.
And to remove that annoying title bar that takes up space on the screen, the highly configurable Hide Caption Titlebar Plus.
Still very slow with Facebook? I have been told that they are the scripts of the social network.
I use in my mozilla firefox:
1 AdBlocker Ultimate: previously I used uBlock Origin as recommended in this article, but I changed to this because initially when firefox was updated to version 55 uBlock still did not update to webextensions, vital to make use of multithreaded and any improvement in performance, I'm not complaining, it works in a similar way and to some extent is much easier to use when creating custom rules, not so much with regard to filter lists. Unfortunately it does not work the same when installing in firefox under Android systems.
2 Translation Comparison: previously I was using I'm translator, but as I mentioned earlier, I wanted to make use of the new features of firefox 55, so I changed the translator to this add-on, very simple to use and intuitive, it allows you to see 3 interpretations, of so that you do not stay only with the one offered by the google service.
3 Language Tool - Gramma & Style Checker: I use it for the first time, but I often write a lot discussing different topics on the internet, so writing well, especially when writing long texts and saving time is a challenge at times, I imagine that the administrator / moderator and other writers reading this may be encouraged to give it a try, it is not perfect, but it can help to quickly review a writing.
4 Video Downloader Professional: it is not configurable as Video DownloadHelper, but it is made with webextensions technology, it allows you to download almost any video on the internet, it is especially useful if you are a video lover who has limited bandwidth to watch movies in real time or if you are one of those who likes to watch music videos several times, you can save yourself using the browser by saving these videos on your hard drive, pendrive, among others.
Regarding the rest of the article, I had no idea that firefox could have a plugin that could create pdf files from web pages, although I doubt it is as advanced as the native virtual printer in the chrome browser, I definitely need a good article that talk about lesspass - keepass - firefox sync, I have been using the latter for years and it has done quite well, except for a browser update that presented conflicts when deleting all content on exit was configured in privacy since it deleted account data in firefox sync.