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Well I just discovered the addons on firefox 3 as i have been busy doing a lot of other things offlate. But after discovering the addons I said to myself “Damn this makes life super easy!” atleast if you are as active a web user as I am.

So here are my top 5 addons which I though were the must have.. and that you should add to your Firefox 3 browser asap:

1) Facebook Toolbar - Facebook is the world’s hottest social network right now and with most of your friends on facebook there has to be an easier way to be logged on to facebook even when you are doing other tasks like reading email or googling stuff. Well the facebook toolbar does exactly that once its downloaded as an add on for firefox 3 browser. With more than 36,497 weekly downloads its easily one of the popular add ons for firefox. It is also on the recommeded list by firefox.

So what does this toolbar provide?

Its provides the following:

1) Ability to check Pokes, Friend requests, Messages and Group invitations by the click of a button

2) Ability to Search facebook from the toolbar itself

3) Ability to set status message from the browser toolbar itself

4) Share any link with facebook friends with the click of a button

5) Check facebook mini feed from the browser itself

2) TwitterFox - Along with facebook if you are a social media enthusiast or in the online space or want to connect with the early adoptors in India then you would surely have to use twitter. Twitter is a tool which we have blogged about many times on WATBlog but twitterfox which is a firefox addon bring twitter updates and ability to tweet when you want right to your browser.

So what does twitterfox provide?

1) Ability to follow, send, reply tweets

2) Ability to track and send messages and replies

3) Multi twitter account sign ins

3) Wizz RSS Reader - Has google reader been giving you problems of loading on a slow connection? Well it does to me! But I have had a tough time trying to find another reader solution which works as well. But about time I found this new addon for the browser known as Wizz Rss 3.0. This works beautifully with the Firefox 3 browser and sits nicely on the left panel while you browse the regular stuff. And the whenever you want to read just click on the rss feed you want to read and it still shows the updates in the sidebar till you click on the actual post/story you want to read and it opens that in the browser instantly

So what does Wizz Rss 3.0 provide?

1) Ability to add/import feeds (You can import opml file from your google reader)

2) Ability to search in feeds

3) Ability to save specific feed items

4) Ability to create a watch list of feed items

4) Shareaholic - Social bookmarking via your browser is what Shareaholic is all about. So digging, delicious’ing and stumbling stuff just got easier via your browser. This tool also has sharing for facebook, myspace and twitter as well.

So what does Shareaholic provide?

1) Ability to bookmark on digg, delicious, stumbleupon, mixx and other bookmarking sites

2) Ability to share on facebook, twitter and myspace

3) Ability to email any page to a friend

5) Read it later - Have you ever come across an excellent article at a time when you are suppose to make that all important presentation? Well we usually skip the article and then forget its url! if we have a little more time then we may be lucky enough to bookmark it. But what if there is very little time and you could not only bookmark the article but create a reading list? Well thats what the read it later addon does for you it helps to by just a tick beside the url add the url to your read it later list which can be access anytime from your browser. And it doesn’t end there you can save it online as well on readitlaterlist.com and access it from any other browser as well later.

So what does Readitlater provide?

1) Ability to tag posts by just ticking them as read it later

2) Ability to save the same posts online

3) All time access to your reading list

Hope you enjoyed this post and if you haven’t already then you would surely try Firefox 3 and these addons after reading this post. Do give us your feedback as well if there are any other addons that you feel are cool as well.