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Everyone knows about Mozilla Firefox and some of its popular extensions. But there are some other little known Firefox extensions which are useful but not so famous. Here is a list of 5 such useful Firefox extensions you probably had not heard of earlier.

5 Useful Firefox Extensions

1. Distrust

Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind or in two words it enables Private Browsing. Once turned on this extension monitors Firefox for its activities. Once turned off Distrust will remove history items cache and cookies that were used during the distrust session.

2. Speed Dial

Works very much like the speed dial available in mobile phones. The add-on is very simple to use. Download and install the add-on. Once you have installed, your Firefox toolbar shows the speed dial icons. Click the icon with + symbol to add a new website to the speed dial.

3. Linkification

Some wesbites like WordPress blogs automatically convert web addresses to hyperlinks but not all sites (e.g. Blogger blogs) are this much kind. You have to copy the URL and then paste it in your address bar. Linkification does that job for you, it converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

4. Download Statusbar

It is irritating to see the Downloads windows of Firefox pop up everytime you click on a download link. Try Download Statusbar. It allows you to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar at the bottom of Firefox- without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

5. Stylish

This nifty little extension lets you customize the appearance of a web page. For an example of how Stylish can change websites drastically see the Google Reader Mac OS X skin. You can find scripts for Stylish extension at UserStyles.

Do you like these extensions ? Were you using them earlier ?