Lifehacker-2012: 10 years of the best add-ons for Firefox

This year for the Mozilla Foundation has been a very busy and productive. Desktop browser for the twelve months stepped over a dozen versions and got a huge number of new features. And most importantly - Firefox in recent versions, unlike its main competitor, has become a much more modest consume memory and other system resources. In addition, much work has been on the mobile version of the browser, which is selected from test assemblies and became quite suitable for the program. And in Mozilla labs already it is hard at work on its mobile operating system. But this story is already in the next year ...

When choosing the most interesting additions I have limited the selection to only those supplements that have been mentioned on the pages of Layfhakera this year. So if your favorite Extension left behind, do not worry. Be more active in the comments to "Review extension for popular browsers" and inform us of your best finds.

The latest versions of Firefox appeared on the visual bookmarks opened tab. We've been waiting for this feature, but if you feel some disappointment from its implementation, try Super Start. There is the same tile sites, plus easy-to-do list, complete customization, beautiful backgrounds and more.

Working with a large number of tabs in Firefox sometimes becomes a real problem. Tabs are not placed on the panel and begin to hide behind the left or right edge of the screen, which is not very convenient. Tab Stacking expansion solves this problem by allowing you to "superfluous" tabs, though much reduced in size, but still remain on the screen.

This extension will help when viewing long pages that contain a lot of chapters and sections. It shows links to all the titles in the text by clicking on which you can quickly navigate through the page.

Usually, if we want to change the image found on the Internet, we need to save it to your hard drive, open it in the editor, and then perform the necessary manipulations. PictuTools expansion allows us to reduce to a minimum the steps and perform all actions directly in the browser. With it you can convert the image to a different format, resize, upload to an online photo sharing site or editor, send in a social network, and so on. All this is done using the context menu that appears when you click on the picture.

This is an extension for the Firefox browser not only collects statistics on various sites you visit and time spent there, but it can encourage you to get back to work. It shows in the browser toolbar, two timers: one shows the time spent on the current site, the other - the total time of the session. You can also view the general browsing statistics and customize pop-up notifications.

We are constantly writing about the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle and introduce you to tools to help fix it. Expansion StretchClock is a timer in Firefox bottom panel, through which a predetermined your time will remind you to take a break and will demonstrate simple exercises workout.

This extension is the easiest way to get access to one of the best online music service Pandora broadcasting. However, access to the other pages did not slowing down.

This extension is one of those that I use constantly. It can greatly simplify and speed up the search network. You can enter search queries directly into the address bar, search for different sites and search engine using keywords, get instant results "live search" and much more. In addition, you can now search for the selected word using the contextual menu in any search engine.

This extension serves for comfortable reading articles in the purified from any unnecessary registration form. Expanding remarkable in itself, but if you are an active user of Evernote, you need to try it on a mandatory basis.

If you want to keep abreast of the latest updates of favorite sites, then it's best to subscribe to the corresponding RSS feed or email newsletter. And on those sites, where this is not possible, it is better to use the extension Update Scanner. It can scan the sites you specify in the background at specified intervals to notify you beep and pop-up window, as well as to demonstrate the changes in a new tab by selecting them color.

And the most important result of using Firefox for me personally was that he again took the place of the default browser, which for a long time occupied the Google Chrome. And what you all want!