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.

Facebook is a tool that some of us use everyday, so we might as well make it look the way we want and add new abilities that we really need, right? FaceTweak is an add-on for Firefox that promises to be the Ultimate Facebook Enhancer.  With it, you can add tons of tweaks to the Facebook interface and engine to get more out of this social networking tool.

Once installed, you will see that you have many more options available for tweaking Facebook to suit your needs.  These are mainly broken down into backend fixes, that make certain Facebook features better and ascetic changes, that make Facebook look different.

Here are the main features FaceTweak has to offer:

• AutoLogin – Auto-login to Facebook (assuming Firefox is set to remember your password)
• Chat Emoticons – Adds smileys to the side of Facebook, clicking on one adds to your message
• Replace Smileys – Replace text smileys as graphics (graphics are original from Facebook.com)
• Fixed Header – Makes the Facebook navigation menu remain ‘fixed’ to the top of the screen
• Fixer – Bigger photos, better albums, download videos, show age, Google Calendar integration, etc.

Here are some of the new social options you have available:

• Auto Confirm Friend Requests – Automatically accept all friend requests
• Autopoke – Automatically pokes back pokers listed on your home page
• Deletes – Bulk delete friends
• Ignore All Requests – Denies all Facebook requests on button click
• Invites – Invites your friends to the app if they’ve already allowed the app access
• Highlight Birthdays – Highlights today’s birthdays on your home page
• Games Quick Invite – Adds quick invite links to various games (needs ‘Invites’ option enabled)
• Poke All – Adds ‘Poke All’ and ‘Poke Selected’ buttons above the pokes on user homepages
• Reply Button – Adds a reply button to comments
• Select All Friends – Select all friends at once instead of having to do so one by one

But wait, that’s not all – you also have tons of media options to play with too:

• inYOf4ceBook – Larger versions of thumbnails and profile pictures on mouse-over
• Video – Adds links to download or convert videos with Zamzar.com, and provides embedded code
• View All Photos – Places link to view all photos of a user
• View Photo in Album – View all photos of a user or an album

And on top of all of this greatness, you get over 20 new skins for Facebook, so you can change how the website looks and feels. You can pick up FaceTweak from the Firefox Add-ons website or learn more about the development of this neat tool at FaceTweak.com.

Need a better tool to help you format webpages, before you print them?  Print Edit, a Firefox add-on, makes this really easy. If your stuck on a website that does not offer a "printer friendly" version of the document you need a hard copy of – give this excellent extension a download.

After hooking into your Firefox print preview screen, Print Edit lets you compact the layout and remove unwanted content such as sidebars, blank spaces and adverts. Just about any element on a page can be formatted, hidden or deleted as you see fit to do so.

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

Print Edit mode is entered from Print Preview mode by clicking on the Edit button next to the Close button on the toolbar. Alternatively, Print Edit mode can be entered from the Print Edit button menu on the main toolbar, or from the Print submenu on the context menu (after right-clicking the web page). The Print Edit button can be added to the main toolbar by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting Customize.

The Print Edit add-on gives the browser user a lot of flexibility when it comes to printing out online documents. It saves time, and I really could not find a single flaw with the execution of this excellent idea.  You can pick up Print Edit from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Find yourself looking for more browsing room in Firefox?  Well the titlebar for the Firefox window does take up some space – so why not remove it?  The Hide Caption Titlebar Plus is that add-on you need to make this happen.

This add-on for Firefox will basically take away the chrome wrapper of your Firefox browsing window, and squeezes in all the basic tools you might need.  You can still minimize, maximize, resize and close the Firefox window like normal.  There are no borders around the program at all though.  When using it, I thought it felt like Firefox was kind of embedded into my desktop – which is not a bad thing at all.

Here are a few more features of Hide Caption Titlebar Plus:

• Never: No standard caption for any window, not even popups. (You can get a nice *optional* custom caption bar & borders for dragging.)
• Smart Popups: FF main window/s with hidden std. captions, but the popups will be detected and will have std. caption & borders.
• Smart All: Maximized FF window/s will stay with hidden caption, but Restored (un-maximized) ones will get the standard caption!. (Popups always with caption)
• Always (Firefox default): All windows with standard caption.

Only negative I found with this add-on was you can no longer move Firefox around.  You have to kind of drag and resize the left, and then the right (or vice versa) to get it in the new location.  That is kind of a drag (pun intended).

Want to learn more?  You can go download the Hide Caption Titlebar Plus extension for Firefox from the Firefox Add-ons web site.

Need a good way to quickly reorganize the way content is seen on the web?  That is what Pearltrees is trying to do, and it is getting a lot of good press in delivering one of the best representations of this age old idea.  The idea of bookmarking pages is really outdated.  Shouldn’t there be a better way by now to save, discover and share the stuff you like?

Pearltrees defines itself as a social curation tool.  How does it work?  Here is what the developers have to say about it:

• Pearl the stuff you like on the Web. A pearl is like a bookmark. It holds anything you find interesting on the Web. Click it to open it, drag and drop it to move it… or put your pearl into the trash to delete it.
• Organize your pearls by moving them to pearltrees. A pearltree is a curation of web pages. It works like a folder for pearls. Unlike social bookmarking, no need to tag and re-tag. You can open it, close it, browse it, move it into an other pearltree or send it anywhere to share some of your interests.
• Discover others’ pearltrees in your areas of interest. First take a look at your connections! If you want to explore more widely you can see the pearltrees most connected to one of your own pearltrees or you can search any topic.

Also this video does a good idea at pitching the basic ideas of pearltrees in a way that we can all understand.

Overall, I am really excited to see what they do with this project and how it moves forward.  It might not be the next best thing yet, but it does have a lot of possibilities.    You can download Pearltrees for yourself to play with over at the Firefox Add-ons web site.

Looking for a quick and easy way to enlarge thumbnails of photos you see on Facebook?  Facebook PhotoZoom will do the trick.  This simple add-on will bring simple photo magnification to your favorite social network.

Once installed, you can use Facebook PhotoZoom to get up and close with that thumbnailed photo you would like to see more of.  Just hover your mouse over the picture in question, and let the Firefox extension do the rest of the work for you.

Where this add-on really shines though is when it comes to looking through a photo album on Facebook.  Here is an example from one of my own:

Feel free to come follow me on Facebook too, if you like.  You can pick up the Facebook PhotoZoom add-on via the Firefox Add-ons web site. It might be simple, but it does get the job done.

Searching for a better deal while you shop Online?   The InvisibleHand add-on for Firefox might be the next browsing companion you need to pick up.  Once installed, this add-on for Firefox will let you know if the product you are looking for is cheaper somewhere else.

Currently supporting more than 100 of US, UK and German retailers – InvisibleHand is incredibly handy when it comes to finding the best price.  If you are a bargain hunter, it will make sure you get the lowest price, which will save you some cash.

Here are a few other features I enjoy:

• It stays out of your way.  You don’t get a huge popup with a better deal – it stays hidden most of the time, and just slides in the notification under the tab bar once a better price has been found.
• When you search for a product on Google, InvisibleHand generates the lowest real-time price for that product.

You can learn more about the add-on and service at GetInvisibleHand.com or pick up the add-on for Firefox at the Firefox Add-ons web site.

Having just installed the CyberSearch extension, I can tell you my new favorite feature is the ability to search the current web site you are surfing via Google. 

For example, say you are on FirefoxFacts.com and you want to search for “themes”.  With CyberSearch already installed, just go to the address bar and type in:

> themes

You will then be taken to a Google site search of FirefoxFacts.com for the word, “themes”.  Very nice.

It has been way too long since I have given a shout out to my good friends over at CyberNet News.  Go check out this most recent innovation to the CyberSearch extension over at CyberNetNews.com.

Rather than hunting down the X to close your current tab, what if all you had to do was wish upon a star, and then right click anywhere on the tab you wish to shut down?  I will let you know how to get that done, without the need of the “wishing upon a star” part.

The add-on you want to grab to get this done is Rights To Close.  This extension enables a user to close the current tab by simply right double-clicking, with your mouse, anywhere on the web page.   This cleverly named add-on works very well, and gets the job done. 

It is a tiny extension, but it is really handy to have.  You can pick up Rights To Close on the Firefox Add-ons web site.

The History Submenus extension for Firefox is here to make thumbing through the browser’s history easier.

The browsing history in Firefox is one of the most taken for granted features, that can sometimes produce amazing results.  Say you check out a web page today, never think about it again – and then tomorrow you say, “what did that article say again?”.  Just browse through your Firefox history, and you can find the answer. 

What the History Submenus add-on does different, is it places each day’s entire browsing history in a submenu of the history’s menu from the menu bar in Firefox.   Simply put, it makes the History menu much more usable. 

You can pick up the History Submenus add-on on the Firefox Add-on’s web site.