{"id":5859,"date":"2008-07-17T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-firefox-extensions-to-replace-basic-tools\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:29:16","slug":"top-10-firefox-extensions-to-replace-basic-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-firefox-extensions-to-replace-basic-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Firefox extensions to replace basic tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/addons.png\" alt=\"Top 10 tools to replace with Firefox extensions\" align=\"right\" \/>When you buy a shiny new computer &#8211; or reinstall the operating system from scratch &#8211; your hard drive is like a large, empty space waiting to be loaded with dozens of different tools and applications for the most varied purposes. But what if you could save a lot of that space by embedding a few basic tools in just one program? You can easily do it with Firefox and its many extensions. Just take a look at the list below and see how many desktop apps you can replace with extensions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fireftp.mozdev.org\/\">FireFTP<\/a> &#8211; A fully functional FTP client embedded into your browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downthemall.net\/\">DownThemAll<\/a> &#8211; Download all links and images on a website with just one click.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/5579\">PicLens<\/a> &#8211; View your pictures in this attractive, full-screen photo viewer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/converter.mozdev.org\/\">The Converter<\/a> &#8211; A tool to convert between different measurement units on the fly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1146\">ScreenGrab<\/a> &#8211; Capture complete webpages, from top to bottom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firenes.com.ar\/\">FireNES<\/a> &#8211; Play thousands of games in this Nintendo emulator.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2444\">FoxLingo<\/a> &#8211; A fully featured translator in your favorite browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forecastfox.mozdev.org\/\">Forecastfox<\/a> &#8211; Check the international weather forecast right in Firefox window.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/addon\/2109\">FEBE<\/a> &#8211; A quick, easy backup tool for all the important elements in the browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/\">FoxyTunes<\/a> &#8211; Enjoy your favorite music without leaving Firefox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy a shiny new computer &#8211; or reinstall the operating system from scratch &#8211; your hard drive is like a large, empty space waiting to be loaded with dozens of different tools and applications for the most varied purposes. But what if you could save a lot of that space by embedding a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-firefox-extensions-to-replace-basic-tools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 10 Firefox extensions to replace basic tools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335983,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/335983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}