Pimp My Browser: The Top Firefox Add-ons For College Students
July 21, 2008 Posted in College
It’s become pretty obvious that Firefox is the best browser available on the Internet. And that’s partly because there are hundreds of Firefox add-ons available. So we’ve rummaged through the clutter to come up with the Top Firefox Add-ons For College Students.
These add-ons will make research more effective, offer innovative ways to harness media online and make make your general surfing experience better.
Check out the Top Firefox Add-ons for College Students after the flip!
Official Firefox Theme/Toolbar for Florida Gators’ Danielle Wolfe and Lauren Stevens
Former Miss COED’s Danielle Wolfe and Lauren Stevens, from the University of Florida have their own Firefox Theme and Toolbar.
So far, over 1,600 of you agree that it’s functional and nice to look at! Something tells us there’s a lot more out there than that…
If you are a fan of viewing pictures on Facebook, Webshots, Photobucket or Flickr, PicLens is a must have Firefox extension.
PicLens full screen, visually stunning “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, news feeds, sports feeds, and more. And it looks purty!
Finally no more time wasted citing online sources for the pesky research paper.
Zotero is a research tool that helps you collect, organize and appropriately cite any sources you find over the Web.
The simple function of Zotero allows you to do your work right in your browser window, without all the pesky flipping around.
For those of you who like to listen to music while surfing the Web, check out FoxyTunes.
It integrates almost any media player with the Web, allowing you to find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.
This is not your average sports ticker.
Choose your favorite sports and get a rotating ticker with scores and headlines, along with alerts when games get to crunch-time. Select your cable provider, and you can also see what games you can actually watch.
Great for keeping up on your teams games when you aren’t near a television…or don’t own one.
Speed Dial allows you to easily access your most frequented websites.
Add Speed Dial to your Firefox, input your top 8 sites and use the Speed Dial button (which can be added to the toolbar) and voila!
It’s better, faster and down right cooler than Firefox’s standard bookmarking tool. And it makes up for some of the superior features offered in Opera.
Gmail offers 4.1 GB of free storage space. The Gspace extension allows you to access this ever growing spot for free file storage.
Think of it as online drive, where you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
FreeTranslation.com is old school, man!
gTranslate allows you to translate full websites in nearly every foreign language. Next time you bump into a solid research Site, but can’t read a word on the page, employ this puppy and you’ll be cruisin’.
Project Gutenberg now offers over 25,000 ebooks. With eReader you can now take advantage of all that free material.
eReader makes it easy to read ebooks right in your Firefox browser, making searching through free online materials from Google and sites like Project Gutenberg a breeze.
StumbleUpon is an old favorite.
For those of you who are unaware, Stumbleupon discovers Websites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more, and more…
Download the toolbar, fill in your preferences and begin “stumbling” to find new content on the Internet that suits your fancy. Yes, it will be mostly porn.
We American are lazy S.O.B.’s, so some genius decided that hitting ctrl+c to copy wasn’t easy enough.
Highlight text with AutoCopy and it is automatically added to your clipboard free for you to paste where ever you please.
Have an Amazing V-Day
10 Commandments of Casual Sex
Hot Girls Take a Good Photo
Would She Pull a Scarlett Johansson?
Keira Knightle Reminds You Why You Lust Her
This is Our Birthday Cake
Arianny Celeste Throws in the Towel
Puppy Conan Should Happen Ever
Stars Who Got Revenge on Their Ex
Sexiest Things in America
How to Beat Popular Game Show
Why Candice Swanpoel is Our Favorite Angel
I prefer Fast Dial to Speed Dial.
PicLens is GODLIKE.
I don't know how you could leave Gresemonkey out of there. It is great. It allows you to generate or install codes to kill parts of webpages or otherwise auto-effect them. (i.e. killing the comments on youtube so all you can see is the video or adding a 'loop' button to youtube)
Some of these could be fun.
No-Wrong-Sorry-none of this works well and anybody who tries Zotero for a research paper will flunk and anybody can listen to music while surfing and PiCLens will crash yr machine and it's sad but true-IE is still the best–
Funny, PicLens hasn't crashed my machine. Maybe it only crashes yours because you are on a craptastic PC. Meh.
I'm sorry, did somebody say Internet Explorer was the best? Have you ever used it? While some of these may not be the best idea – they certainly beat anything microsoft has ever put out.
you are so hot i kod kill me b/c your so hot.
I've only seen the movie which just killed me but yes, that art teacher. ,
There is no recognition of the individual. ,