TableTools2

Here is a little more information about TableTools2 from the developer:

Whether you’re a sports fan checking out stats of your favorite quarterbacks, a music fan viewing a listing of top selling albums, a gamer searching for top games, a shopper comparison shopping, a scientist analyzing data tables …, you’ll find TableTools2 tremendously helpful.

Some of the other features include the ability to compare data, combine tables, rearrange the things you are looking at, chart the data into pie chats, line charts, histograms and more. 

Want to give it a shot? You can download TableTools2 from the Firefox Add-ons website. It is definitely the best add-on out there if you need to work with tables and data.

This extension isn’t just obviously named – it also works wonders too.  Once installed, you can right-click on any link and choose the option “Open Link in Private Browsing Mode”. Not sure if this would be useful? Here are a few examples from the extension developer of how this add-on might come in handy.

• You click around Amazon, and suddenly you see an item that you think would make a great gift for your partner, who uses the same computer.
• You encounter an ad for a really silly item that you really want to check out but are too embarrassed to admit.
• Your detour through the depths of Wikipedia gets so absurd that you’d rather not have those pages show up in your browsing history.

Want to give it a shot? You can pick up Open in Private Browsing Mode from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Usually with these price comparison tools, if you want the lowest price – you have to order your product from some shady unknown realtor that you might or might not feel comfortable dealing with. As you can see in the picture here, the add-on does a great job at comparing some of the biggest and best online realtors to find you the best deal.

Here are a few more features worth mentioning:

• Instant Price Comparison: PriceBlink automatically lets you know if you’ve found the lowest price on a product or whether it can be found for less at another retailer. PriceBlink checks more than 4,000 merchants for lower prices.
• Shipping Charges: PriceBlink displays shipping costs along with price comparison results, the first add-on of its kind to do so.
• Coupons: PriceBlink also alerts you to money-saving coupons and free shipping codes for the site that you are on.

The only downside to this add-on I could find is that it is for US users only.  You can pick up PriceBlink from the Firefox add-ons website. If you have any other great shopping or coupon finding add-ons you’d like to share, please be sure to mention them in the comments.

Unfortunately, it’s enough to regularly clean your system of cookies to make App Tabs not work. On my work computer, I run CCleaner on daily basis and the App Tabs I set up don’t work. Therefore, I installed a wonderful App Tab Initializer addon, but still find it strange that such a great functionality cannot work on its own…

So with that said, I thought I would give App Tab Initializer a shot and I have to say, it does exactly as reported. If you automatically clear your browser history upon closing Firefox, this add-on will allow you to keep your favorite App Tabs up and running. App Tab Initializer lets you grab the list of open App Tabs from your current browser and store it. When you start Firefox it will open your preferred set of App Tabs.

You can pick up App Tab Initializer from the Firefox Add-ons website.

I recently upgraded from using the standard bookmarklet to save pages to the Firefox add-on and I have been really impressed with how it integrates into the browsing experience.  Want to save something for later? Just click the icon for it in the address bar.  You can then pull up your saved links by clicking another toolbar button that is added right into the Firefox interface.  You can also sync your saved pages to multiple browsers and devices.  So, I could save a link 5 minutes before I have to go to work – then read it after work on my iPad.

Here are some more of the fantastic features:

• Save pages to a reading list to read when you have time.
• Offline reading mode lets you read the items you’ve saved for later on the plane, train, or anywhere without an internet connection.
• Sync your list to all of your computers, at work or home.
• Sync your list to Read It Later apps for iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android and more.
• After reading, bookmark pages on your preferred bookmarking service or share them with friends.
• Click to Save Mode lets you quickly batch a reading list just by clicking on interesting links.
• Text view strips away images, ads, and layout from articles and presents them in an easy to consume way.

You have to try out this fantastic bookmarking alternative to really see what all the buzz is about.  You can pick up Read it Later from the Firefox Add-ons website.

• Google
• Yahoo
• Microsoft
• Network Advertising Initiative Members

Here is a peek at the interface of Beef Taco:

Personally I have never understood the reason for wanting to block advertising cookies in the browser, but for those of you who like to keep things nice and private – Beef Taco will help you get the job done. If anything, you could pick and choose who’s ads you want to accept and who’s you want to block too.

You can pick up Beef Taco from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Need a way to easily highlight links you already have bookmarked while you are browsing the Web? The Bookmark Highlighter add-on for Firefox will get the job done.  This quick and easy add-on for Firefox will highlight links to any URLs on a webpage that are currently saved to your bookmarks.

The functionality of this add-on might be a little limited, but it does come in handy – should the situation ever arise.  For example, you could be going through your own website, making sure you had all your category pages bookmarked for quicker reference.  Also, it can act as a quick reminder of when you do have a page bookmarked – so you don’t feel the need to save it again.  That alone would help cut down on duplicate bookmarks a lot.

While it might not be functional for day to day use, I can see where Bookmark Highlighter might come in handy for a few special situations or projects. You can pick it up from the Firefox Add-ons website.

One nice feature of this add-on is that it will automatically hide – so you are not wasting any extra screen real estate. It is small and for the most part, unobtrusive.  You can easily drag and drop new buttons to the vertical menu just like you do with your regular Firefox toolbars too. For people who don’t like all the bells and whistles the All-in-One Sidebar add-on brings when you install it – the Vertical Toolbar add-on should be absolutely perfect.

Want to give the add-on a shot? You can download the Vertical Toolbar add-on for Firefox from the Firefox Add-ons website.

How does the switching work?  You get a light switch placed in the top-right corner of the multimedia in question.  For example, if you were watching a video on YouTube, you’d see a little light switch towards the top-right side of the video player.

If you need a good distraction free way of viewing content, Light Switch is well worth checking out.  You can download Light Switch from the Firefox Add-ons website.

The meat and potatoes behind this Firefox extension are pretty simple.  Once installed, you can double-click on any unlinked URL – then Firefox loads it up in the browser.  You no longer need to copy and paste the website URL into the address bar or do anything else to get to that unlinked address.  You just double click it.

So now, right from within Firefox you can fix somebody else’s bad website coding with one simple add-on.  You can pick up Text link at the Firefox Add-ons website.