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: instance, you view pictures on Flickr related to that selected word, read the Wikipedia entry (if there’s one), convert currency, translate text, view dictionary meanings and so much more right from the Firefox menu without having to click anything.

Morning Coffee: With Firefox, it is possible to set multiple homepages (separated by ‘pipe’) so all your favourite sites will open in different tabs each time you launch Firefox. But imagine a scenario where you want a different set of websites to launch depending on the day.

For instance, one of your favourite website may not be updated on weekends, while another one (like PostSecret) posts new content only on Sunday. With Morning Coffee, you can organise websites by day and open them up simultaneously in tabs.

IE Tab: Firefox is popular but we routinely encounter so many websites that are designed for Internet Explorer only. A good example is the Microsoft Windows Update. IE Tab brings the Internet Explorer rendering engine inside Firefox so you don’t have to leave Firefox in order to view those IE only websites.

CustomizeGoogle: With CustomizeGoogle, you get to repeat the same search on other popular search engines from the Google website. It will also let you filter websites that you do not want to see in Google search results.

Scrapbook: This is like OneNote for Firefox as you can save clippings, images or even entire web pages to the local disk with a simple right click or a drag-n-drop. Scrapbook lets you search through the clippings and it also saves the original links in case you need to cite or revisit the original source.