Mozilla Firefox Add-Ons For Better Address/Location Bar

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One of the most important place on your Firefox includes Location bar – right at the top of your web browser, with the help of Firefox add-ons you can make this Location bar into a zone of information which would be at easy access to you about the pages you visit. In this post, I present you with list of Top Must have Firefox add-ons for better Location bar:

Location bar Firefox Add-ons:

1. Fission: It integrates progress bar at the bottom-right with address bar similar to Safari. You can customize the colors of the Progress bar via Add-on Option making a really nice visual effect.
2. Omni bar: It integrates search bar at extreme top-right with location bar similar to the Google Chrome. You can quickly switch between the search engine provide, Google being default. It also shows you the URL suggestion from most visited sites on internet as you type.
3. Twitter bar: As Twitter have Changed their Question from “what are you doing” to what’s happening? you would need this Twitter bar Add-on more frequently as you can tweet the News, Article right from your location bar after confirming your twitter account via Twitter bar options.
4. Location bar2: It converts your text on address bar into the click-able links to go up & down the domain you are on. For example; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014 would be click-able on your location bar as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/ so that you need not find the homepage link on the websites.
5. URL Fixer: Simple & easy to use add-ons which helps corrects typing mistake in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example; if you type google.con it would automatic convert it to google.com (First type asks for the confirmation, to make a thumb rule)
6. Cyber Search: It provides you with the instant search results from the Google search engine as you type in address bar. You can also restrict the search results to specific web-page or site like Google, Wikipedia.
7. Xmark Bookmark: Basically a bookmark add-on, but features in location bar collection due to the ability to provide you with the single click information about the page you are on via Xmark icon on address bar. Nice capability along with best bookmarking ability.
8. Read it later: It allows the heavy users of Web from clotting their bookmark for every page; they want to refer or read it later. Provide a small trick make on address bar, which on clicking puts the URL in Read it later box, which can be synchronized (via Xmark) across the computer as it uses bookmark as a tool.

Hope, now your address/location bar is a power house information center, which provides you with each access to the more services & data from same address / location bar. If you want to know more about the address bar or location bar add-ons, you can follow this collection on Firefox Collection page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/addressbar. Also have a look at handpicked add-on collection of Firefox Add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/binterest, for all the internet worms like me & you, which encompassing everything including the location & Address bar.

[Post by : Malvinder Singh Virdi]

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