Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons - Extensions

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As far as i know, there are very little people are using Mozilla Firefox Add-ons this function. "Add-ons"? What is that? Is it upgrade my Firefox or another web browser? Add-ons means that you added software into your web browser. You can customize your own Firefox with Add-ons.

Add-ons are the small pieces of software created by people all over the world, that add new features or functionality to your installation of Firefox. Add-ons can augment Firefox with new search engines, foreign-language dictionaries, or change the visual appearance of Firefox . Through this, you can customize your own Firefox with your own styles.

Extensions
Extensions are Firefox add-ons that provide additional functionality or modify the existing ones in Firefox. There are people all over the world have developed thousands of extensions for Firefox. There are some extensions that allows you to block advertisement, download video from websites, integrate more closely with websites like Facebook or Twitter, and add features you see in others browsers.

How to install Extensions?

Step 1: Click on the Tools menus and select Add-ons. The Add-ons window will appear.

Step 2: Select the Get Add-ons panel.

Step 3: In the Get Add-ons panel, click in the empty Search All Add-ons box. Try to type something about the Add-on you wants. Add-ons that match your search will appear in the list.
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Step 4: To install an extension, click the Add to Firefox. The Software Installation window will appear.

Step 5: When Install Now button is available , click on it to install the software that you chose.
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Step 6: After finish download extensions, you will be asked for restart your Firefox to finish the installation. Firefox will restart and your new extensions will be available.
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I will tell you more about Add-ons soon. Hope you all can learn new stuff from this post. Thank you for reading. Remember to vote for the poll.


References:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+extensions+with+Firefox
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Customizing+Firefox+with+add-ons
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