In this post we will take a look at those useful extensions and add-ons which will help you convert Firefox into a social networking hub.
StumbleUpon Toolbar
StumbleUpon is a great way to come across wonderful sites. The StumbleUpon Toolbar extension will help you discover websites in your selected categories. It will also let you share and connect with your friends.
Shareaholic
Are you a avid social networker? Shareaholic is one extension that will fulfill your addiction with social networks by allowing you to bookmark or e-mail pages to a wide array of social networks.
Shareaholic currently support, del.icio.us, facebook, foxiewire, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader, healthranker, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, simpy, stumbleupon, streakr, truemors, tumblr, twitter, ycombinator, bzzster and more.
ShareThis
Another extension similar to Shareaholic, ShareThis makes it more easier and efficient to share any type of content with anyone you want to share it with. ShareThis also makes it easier to share with your friends by providing you a mash up of address book from popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, AIM etc.
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
This is the official extension created by Yahoo which will help you easily bookmark any site to your del.icio.us, you can also browse all your bookmarks in the sidebar.
Download Del.icio.us Bookmarks
Dashblog
What happens when you see a interesting image and want to quickly want to share it with your friends through your blog? Do you want to quickly be able to share those videos, images and websites without having to go through much trouble. Dashblog is a extension that will quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog(wordpress, blogger) or twitter.
Piclens
PicLens transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for enjoying online photos and videos. You can effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images and YouTube videos faster and more immersively than ever before.
Piclens lets you search YouTube videos and discover videos and photos from various other sites. You can also browser products from Amazon with a 3D experience.
Piclens currently supports a host of services including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and almost all of the popular image sharing websites.
Clipmarks
Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites.
Meebo
Meebo is a popular online instant messaging service which allows you to chat with friends from multiple IM networks without having to install any client on your Desktop.
We have made a exception to include Meebo in our list even though it is not compatible with Firefox 3 since it is a real must have extension and is definitely useful.
GMarks
GMarks allows you to sync and manage your Google Bookmarks from within Firefox.
TwitterFox
The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their statuses. Also it has a small text input field to update your status from within Firefox without having to visit the site.
TwitterBar
Are you in hurry and want to post something to Twitter? TwitterBar comes to the rescue by allowing you to post to twitter directly from the Firefox address bar. Simply type in your message and click on the icon to submit your post to twitter.
Digg Sidebar
Who can ever forget Digg when one talks about social networking? Digg sidebar is a useful extension that will allow you to see and Digg stories in the Firefox Sidebar.
View all the stories as they occur without having to refresh the page over and over again, you can also choose from various categories and topics and from popular/upcoming/all sections on Digg by just using a menu.
FlickrFox
FlickrFox allows you to browse and search Flickr photos in a sidebar.
Facebook Toolbar
The official toolbar from Facebook which allows you to easily access your Facebook account using the toolbar, without having to visit the website.
You can also access your Facebook account from the Firefox sidebar.
Email This! Bookmarklet
Email this! will send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using Gmail, Google Apps GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, & More!
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