Extensions are one of the reasons why Firefox has become so popular over time, so much so that it becomes the best browser, together with Google Chrome, to surf the internet from your computer and also from an Android smartphone or tablet such as the Samsung Galaxy or Huawei. . The add-ons in Firefox, called Add-ons, allow you to add functionality to your browser making it a richer program that interacts with the websites you visit.
Not everyone knows that it is possible to install extensions not only on Firefox for the computer, but also on the Android version of Firefox for smartphones and tablets .
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Some of these extensions are available in the catalog provided by Mozilla, others can be installed from Google Play.
From the gallery of extensions for Firefox on Android, which are currently just over a hundred, there are some already very useful add-ons that make this browser one of the best for Android or at least an alternative not to be overlooked.
1) Chrome Store Foxified, to install Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store on Firefox.
2) Google Search Fixer, to open Google as it would be in Chrome, with all the advanced features.
3) User Agent Switcher puts a convenient menu to easily change the browser user agent.
In practice it is possible to tell Firefox to act as a mobile browser for mobile phones or as a desktop browser on the computer.
Thanks to this quick change, with Firefox you can open those sites such as republic, Gazzetta or Corriere in normal and complete version, avoiding the mobile version that would be paid.
4) Foxy Proxy is an add-on that makes it easy to configure a proxy to surf the internet.
The browser itself does not offer this possibility although it is possible to set the proxy and other network parameters from the about: config menu, which is certainly inconvenient.
5) Cookie Autodelete adds a Quit button for Firefox which is used to exit the browser.
Furthermore, before exiting the browser, temporary data and other session data are deleted so as not to leave traces in the history and cookies.
6) LastPass Password Manager is a very effective add-on to synchronize the passwords saved in your LastPass account.
In practice, all the passwords used on the internet are saved safely on Lastpass which becomes the password manager both on computer and mobile phone.
READ ALSO (on Lastpass): how to manage web account passwords.
6) Full Screen adds a button to the Firefox menu for Android to display a website in full screen.
7) PageZipper is the extension to scroll the pages of the websites (blogs and newspapers or Google) continuously, loading the next page when it comes to the end, scrolling down.
8) FoxFilter to block advertisements and adult sites.
9) Undo Close to cancel the closing of a card.
10) CloseAll Button is a handy extension that adds the button to close all open tabs.
11) Always Zoom allows you to enlarge the contents on any page, even those that have zoom off.
12) Site Searcher allows you to search within a site.
13) I don't care about cookies to automatically accept site cookies and close the boring banners they are obliged to put.
14) Instant Translate is a simple translation tool for Firefox.
15) Big navigation is an indispensable extension to navigate those sites made only for desktop PCs, where the buttons and links are small and it is difficult to change the page or press a button.
16) Refresher adds the update icon on the Firefox mobile address bar, to reload a page.
The selection of add-ons for Firefox will surely grow in the coming months so there will be more and more alternatives and features for the Mozilla browser.
Without these add-ons, Firefox for Android would be just a normal browser with nothing special compared to the others and inferior to Chrome.
What is not secondary then, Firefox for Android supports the viewing of flash videos while Chrome does not (see here how to download flash on Android phone or tablet ).
