Power User 116 – Firefox 3 Add-ons

PDF Download manages the download of large PDF files. This remains necessary to handle PDF files in Firefox V.3.

Download Statusbar allows you to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

Morning Coffee allows you to bring up a whole menu of websites with a single click. MorningCoffee is particularly useful for routinely monitoring several sites simultaneously.

Ubiquity promises to become the most advanced tool for Firefox. It is in early beta now but getting better. It requires Firefox 3. Check out the video below.

Beware that this can be abused. It will allow you to alter the content of a web page then email it as part of a mash-up.  In the current version, there are well-documented ways that a command author could smuggle malicious code into your machine.

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