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Free Browser Add ons

Add-ons are browser extensions, browser helper objects, or toolbars that can improve your experience on a website by providing multimedia or interactive content, such as animations. Here are a set of browser add-ons that can improve your online experience.

Google Toolbar

The toolbar brings Google's search and other functionality directly to IE or Firefox. It offers extras like auto fill, spell-checking, and one-click RSS feed subscriptions.

Get Google Toolbar

Yahoo Toolbar

Similar to Google toolbar, is Yahoo Toolbar. This utility helps you to organize your web experience, make the web a safer place and also has a music add-on along with other features.

Get Yahoo Toolbar

MSN Toolbar

Very much similar to Google and Yahoo, MSN also offers toolbar to have a much on click experience with your browser.

Get MSN Toolbar

Free auto refresh add-ins for your browser

This add-on is found useful for observing changing events like scores of any sports games, auctions stock points and so on. This utility will automatically update your browser screen at pre-determined intervals.

For Firefox users this utility comes as ReloadEvery (version). It reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes.

Get it from Firefox ReloadEvery

For Internet Explorer this comes as a toolbar plug-in called "Auto Refresher for IE." Once installed, you have to enable it from View/Toolbars.

Get it from IE Auto Refresher

Free minimizer for your browser

If you are a person who often has lots of programs running on your PC simultaneously, then this is a tool for you. This utility minimizes the whole program running into an icon on the system notification tray (the right hand side of your taskbar) than having all the programs minimized in the task bar. Some of the free minimizers available are

TrayIt: It can minimize open windows to the tray either temporarily or permanently with just one click. Just double click the program file and it's up and running.

4T Tray Minimizer Free: It is the only one of the programs reviewed that allows you to minimize programs to the system tray in multiple ways, either by using keyboard shortcuts or by clicking on additional buttons on the applications title bar

SpaceTime to give a 3D effect to your browser

SpaceTime is a free application that replaces your browser tabs with a series of stacked and rotatable 3D panes. SpaceTime also has special built-in features which optimize the effectiveness of common web tasks, such as Google, eBay and YouTube searches. Something interesting.

Get SpaceTime

TaskSwitchXP to switch between open applications

Alt-Tab is definitely an easy way. The only problem is that to get to the right program you want, you have to cycle through all running applications by repeatedly pressing the Tab key until you get to the required program. TaskSwitchXp is a add-on that overcomes this problem by displaying all running applications in one screen, thus making it quicker and easier to find the program you want.

Get TaskSwitchXP

GreaseMonkey

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that can be used to modify the way web pages appear by small bits of JavaScript code. Thousands of unique scripts tailored to a large number of sites are available free of charge. Users are also given the ability to write their own scripts.

Get Greasemonkey

Dictionary add-on

This add-on is available for IE as well as Firefox.

Dictionary Add-on for IE is a simple right-click add-on that adds the "Definition" option to the right-click menu. No matter what web site you are visiting, you can now instantly check any word's definition.

Get Dictionary Add-on

Dictionary Search Extension for Firefox provides a very easy way to look up a word found on a web page or in an email. Simply highlight the word you want to look up, then right-click and select "Search Dictionary for ...." A new tab or browser window will open with the meaning of the word you selected.

Get Dictionary Search Extension

FoxClocks add-on for world time

FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your status bar. You have options to set each clock's color. If you feel this utility makes the status bar too congested, move your clocks to a toolbar, or switch to 'icon' mode.

Get FoxClocks

To get more interesting IE Add-ons, go to IE Add-ons

To get more interesting Firefox Add-ons, go to Firefox Add-ons

 

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