This fantastic little add-on for Firefox adds a lot to using the mouse and Firefox together.  Here are just a few of the mouse combinations that it brings to your browsing habits.

While holding down the right mouse button:

• Scroll up/down to move focus between tabs
• While scrolled away left click to return to the original tab
• Left click without scrolling or after scrolling and back to original tab to jump to last used tab
• Middle/scroll button click to close tab
• Middle/scroll button down and hold to undo last closed tab
• Middle/scroll button double click will close all tabs with same host name (Ex: addons.mozilla.org is different from www.mozilla.org)

While double clicking:

• Double click right button to open new tab
• Double click right button AND hold to duplicate current tab

While holding down the left mouse button:

• Scroll up/down to zoom in/out
• Middle click to reset zoom

This might be the best power tool when it comes to getting more out of using your mouse with Firefox.  You can pick up MouseControl from the Firefox add-ons website.

If you are looking for a fast and easy way to share your thoughts without too much work, Statusus really get the job done.  Want to show your support for this fantastic idea or get to know the guys behind the Statusus add-on? They have a Facebook Apps page at which you can contact them or just tell them how much you like their Firefox add-on.  I am sure they probably would love feedback and suggestions too if you happen to have any.

You can pick up the Statusus add-on for Firefox on the Firefox Add-ons website.

The second part of this awesome addition to Firefox is that you never have to click on anything to get it going.  All you have to do is pause on the menu item you want, and that action is taken.  From BianaryTurf.com – here are the five things this addon gets right:

1. It will optimize your context menu and show only the bare essential items.
2. It will allow you to see the unwanted items on the fly by clicking "Show All". You can again collapse it to bare essentials on the fly.
3. All disabled items are taken out by default. What will one do with the "paste" item when you haven’t copied anything?
4. Ease of use – all changes happen on the fly.
5. It is contextually sensitive. It knows and respects the context in which you use it. For e.g. context menu items relating to links or images etc. will only show when you right click on a link or an image etc.

You can get more information about the add-on for Firefox (and download it for yourself) at BianaryTurf.com.  FfChrome might just change the way (or at least make it a heck of a lot simpler) you get through the context menus.

Starting of the week with a simple, yet effective addon for anybody in the Firefox user base.  The Auto Context extension for Firefox will automatically right-click any text that you highlight. 

The fun doesn’t stop there though.  This add-on also lets you customize that right-click context menu with what you want, need and love.  Also, no need to worry about if it works with your current context menu changing extensions.  Here are some of them that it should work with:

Plain Text to Link, Open-Tran, BabelZilla Glossary Extension, SearchWith, Organize Search Engines, Add to Search Bar, Nuke Anything Enhanced, DownThemAll! and Define Word

Auto Context will save your right mouse button a lot of work through the day.

Here is a little more about the Firefox extension from the developers:

termBlaster adds the ability to perform searches from your right-click (or context) menu using one of 110+ websites that range from search engines to encyclopedias to translators. Website lists are in XML format and can be modified in Places.

One would think that speed could come into play when trying to navigate through the search menus but you can do so quickly with little or no effort at all. All you do is highlight and right click the word you want to search and then select the search engine you want to use. They have shopping searches, review searches, torrent searches, map searches, too many to name.