This guide is designed for use during the Firefox Workshop.

A free bibliographic management tool that works in Firefox. It lets you treat your citations like your music in iTunes. Incredibly easy to add things to, and to let you keep track of your resources.

Extending the capabilities of various web browsers so that they are better able to integrate with library content. Appropriate topics include both new browser extensions, as well as information about how to create them.

A project to highlight useful tools in Firefox for research.

IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer.

Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of installed search engines, allowing you to choose a specific search engine every time.

This extension allows you to search all of your firefox search plugins by highlighting a term and selecting the search from the context menu.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

The newest version of the Conquery extension works with Firefox on Macs, unlike the older version.

A useful extension manager. Mr Tech makes it much easier to manage options on all of your firefox extensions.

A useful extension manager. Mr Tech makes it much easier to manage options on all of your firefox extensions.

Here you can find a Search plugin which you can add to the search box in your browser.
You can search by name (or url), by category, by country or by language and also by any combination of the above.

My favorite extension. Lightweight, fast and flexible - it allows to query web services by context menu of the browser. Queries may contain various parameters of currently browsing web page: selected text, URL, host etc. Be sure to look at the library labs page for search plugins to add to conquery.

IE View is a simple extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. Good for pages that are designed badly for Firefox, or for testing a page.

Adds a little panel to the page when you are looking at a book to find where you can buy the book online for cheaper.

mozCC is an extension for Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Netscape, which provides a convenient way to examine Creative Commons licenses embedded in web pages. It’s at least twice as good as View Source.

IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer.

A useful extension manager. Mr Tech makes it much easier to manage options on all of your firefox extensions.

Adds a little panel to the page when you are looking at a book to find where you can buy the book online for cheaper.

A very great page with lots of links to library extensions.

Extending the capabilities of various web browsers so that they are better able to integrate with library content. Appropriate topics include both new browser extensions, as well as information about how to create them.

McAfee siteadvisor tells you how safe a site is based on their tests of how much spam you will receive from the page, etc.

Some laptops will be provided, but please bring your own laptop if you have one: As the web is becoming a more flexible and robust research environment, the library is finding ways to use new technologies to more efficiently find and use research level resources. Attendees will be introduced to the library's groundbreaking tool for storing, sharing and organizing research links, and will learn how to customize Firefox to make it an efficient tool for research.

A very easy way to add needlesearch-like ability to firefox. Quite cool.

Three really nice looking extensions, allowing users to 1.double click on a word for the definition as a tooltip 2. download-to, where you select a couple of default locations where you might download files.

The Cooliris Mission is to make browsing and searching more intuitive and efficient using intelligent previews. Our first product is a free browser extension that allows you to conveniently preview underlying content for Google searches.

Once powered by Cooliris, simply rest your mouse over a Google search link or Google image thumbnail and see the underlying content without having to click back and forth.

AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.

Lots of extensions for firefox.