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There are a lot of add-ons for Firefox out there.  Over 5,000 of them to be more precise.  But, its a bit hard to actually find the most useful ones unless you’re searching for them specifically.  Mozilla is trying to help us all out with that.  It recently opened a page called “Fashion Your Firefox,” an easier way to find the add-ons that you might find useful.

Obviously, Fashion Your Firefox doesn’t list every add-on, only about 40 of those available at the moment.  It’s broken up into categories ranging from “News Junkie” to “Shutterbug,” “Digital Pack Rat,” and a few other categories for how people use their internet browser.  According to the FAQ, there are a few points the add-ons needed to meet.  They had to be popular, compatible with Mac and PC (I suppose Linux doesn’t count?), easy to use (oh, right, linux is supposedly hard to use), and “ffer a well-rounded set of functionality.”  Sounds a bit reasonable to me.

Looking at the add-ons, the choices make sense.  Especially the fact that StumbleUpon, possibly the most popular, and most unproductive add-on is the first on the list.  There are others on the list that I have used, and they all deserve to be on the list.  There are even a few that I haven’t heard of before that seem like they’d be very useful, if not always useful to me.  I do have one question, though: if this is supposed to highlight the best Firefox add-ons, why isn’t it advertised on Mozilla’s front page?

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