Recently Mozilla announced that the total number of Firefox add-on downloads crossed 3 billion. They published the top eight add-ons which are downloaded and used the most. The rich collection of add-ons makes Firefox one of the most popular browsers. The add-ons convert the browser more feature rich, secure and attractive. The most popular categories of add-ons are privacy and security, search tools, bookmarks and themes.
The infographic published by Mozilla shows the popularity of Firefox add-ons among internet users. The data shows that “More than 85 percent of Firefox users have at least one add-on installed and of those people with add-ons installed, they have an average of five add-ons.”
So what are the top downloaded and used Firefox add-ons. According to the data published by Mozilla the top ranked add-ons are,
- AdBlock Plus: Blocks the ads and helps you to control how you want to view the web.
- Video DownloadHelper: Helps you to capture video and image files from many sites.
- Greasemonkey: Customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript
- Firebug: Firebug helps you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML and JavaScript live in any web page.
- Download Statusbar: Allows you to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- NoScript: NoScript provides extra protection to your Firefox from security vulnerabilities.
- Personas Plus : The installable themes for Firefox
- DownThemAll : The download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox.
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