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.

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.

Need more space in your Firefox toolbars and menus? If you want to eliminate some dead space in the browser, then you need the Tabs Always in Titlebar add-on for Firefox. This extension for Firefox will bump your tabs up a level – giving yourself a little more minimalistic view of your default Firefox GUI.

Once you install this restart-less add-on, it will bump your browser tabs up to the same level you see the Firefox button.  I have been looking for a simple way to do this since Firefox 4 came out – and now that we are already on Firefox 5 – I am happy to see somebody got around to creating an add-on to meet my needs.

If you are using a netbook, this is an excellent add-on to add because it gives you more room to check out the content you want to see.  You can pick up Tabs Always In Titlebar add-on from the Firefox Add-ons website.

This simple add-on for Firefox will give you the old menu bar layout under a single button – so you can kind of mix the best of the old and the new when it comes to using Firefox 4. It adds a compact menu button to the navigation toolbar and then hides the big Firefox button. 

You can fully customize the compact menu by right-clicking on the new toolbar button and selecting "Customize". From here you can drag the menu button to a new location inside of the Firefox navigation layout.

While there are other add-ons that will do the same job – I think Compact Menu 2 might do it the best.  You can pick it up from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Here is a little more about the add-on from the developer:

Now you can edit the Firefox Menu and change it to your personal and powerful one! Personal Menu provides you a couple of new helpful items that available to be put into Firefox Menu: Bookmark Items, History Items, Configuration(about:config), Restart. In addition, you may create toolbar-box (let you put toolbar-buttons inside), sub-menus and split-menus to organize your Firefox Menu!

To sum things up, if you are one of those people who thought, "Well, this menu item would be a lot better over here" or "Why is there no easy way to get to that feature" then this add-on was designed for you.  This add-on gives you the most control (in comparison to other add-ons like it) when it comes to really customizing everything that is shown under the Firefox button.

You can pick up the Personal Menu add-on from the Firefox Add-ons website.

So, what is the magic going on behind this add-on? Start Faster bypasses the Windows prefetch feature to get Firefox up and running faster.  When running Firefox on Windows, the default way of doing things is to call several things up at the operating system level (such as DLL libraries). Since these are not 100% needed, all the Start Faster add-on has to do is ignore this step of the start up process.

A “Faster Firefox” shortcut is added to your desktop to start launching Firefox with this idea in mind, after you install the add-on.  So, if you want to go back to starting the old fashion way – you can do so via your regular shortcut icon. Overall you should see your Firefox start up time be about two times faster than without.

You can pick up the Start Faster add-on for Firefox 4 from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Want to display your Twitter timeline on the toolbar in Firefox? It is easy to do with Tweet Line. This simple add-on for Firefox will give you your very own Twitter powered news ticker.  What tweets do you see? Well, after authorizing your Twitter account, you see tweets from all the people you follow.

Once installed, Tweet Line will take up one toolbar space.  Inside though, you have easy access to a picture of the tweeter, the twitter message from the friend you are following, and several tools to either navigate or interact with the messages themselves.

Here are some of the commands you will have at your fingertips from within the toolbar itself:

• User icon
• This user’s status
• What application this user uses.
• Update time
• Current index / total number of downloaded statuses
• Toggle favorite
• Open update form
• Open update form to reply to this user
• Move to previous / next status. (Click with shift key then move per 5 updates and click with alt(option) key then move to first or last updates.)
• Open popup menu
• Collapse Tweet Line

If you find visiting Twitter.com a chore when it comes to seeing what people are up to, Tweet Line makes using Twitter just a little ‘bit easier.  You can pick up Tweet Line from the Firefox Add-ons website or learn more about it on the official Tweet Line website.