I was browsing through all the extensions for Mozilla Firefox recently and thought I’d put together a list of the ones I enjoy so maybe you’ll find one a new one to love too.
WebMail Notifier – Keep up with your multiple Yahoo!, Hotmail, or Gmail accounts with this awesome notifier. It’s unobtrusive and prevents you from checking your accounts needlessly. The thing I like most about it is since I have two Yahoo! accounts I use daily, I don’t have to continuously log in and out of them. After I’ve seen there’s mail, I click that account and it logs me in behind the scenes and takes me right to the inbox. That alone is awesome! I only wish I could check my domain webmail with this application. Maybe in future releases…
Tab Mix Plus – A must have for any Firefox user. My favorite feature of this one is being able to force pop-ups, like my XM streaming radio, to appear as a tab instead of a new window. Keeps my taskbar cleaner. Long live tabbed browsing!
Session Manager – The name says it all. Manage your browsing sessions so when a web page crashes Firefox, which it inevitably will, you don’t lose your spot. Of course, I never use this since I figure it’s going to try to load the bad tab too and I’ll be back to square one. It gives you a nice fuzzy feeling having it installed, however. Of course, if you have Tab Mix Plus you don’t need this as it has its own Session Manager.
Forecastfox – A cute little weather application that keeps you abreast of what’s going on outside when you’re stuck in a sunless cubicle like I am 9 hours a day.
Grocery List Generator – Configure your own personalized list of items you shop for frequently and then generate a list to be printed to take to the store.
Morning Coffee – Set up multiple sites you would like to load based on the day of the week. There’s an everyday option too. I tend to check Twitter, Yelp!, Bloglines and Flickr when I first log on so now I only have to click one button instead of opening multiple tabs and loading those sites manually.
Coupon Craze Coupon Notifier – If you’re like me, as soon as you decide to purchase something online you’re looking for codes and specials to try and save some mon-ay. This extension alerts you of all relevant deals for the site you’re currently browsing.
If you use Gmail you can set up your domain POP3 account to be checked via your Gmail account… and that way you can use the webmail notifier.
Kristie beat me to it.
Oh, and I’ve never used Firefox… now you have me intrigued.
Thanks! I think I’ll download a couple of these. And that’s a great tip from Kristi above. You can also pop mail to a yahoo email account.