There’s no doubt that Mozilla FireFox is the best browser for the end user. One of the coolest features in FireFox is the addon section. You can browse for addons, themes and more cools stuff to enhance your browsing experience. Since there are so many addons for FireFox, I’ve listed our top five addons for FireFox to improve the basic FireFox experience. So let’s begin!

#1 - Fasterfox
Fasterfox is an automatic Tweaker for Mozilla FireFox. It boosts rendering and network performance, prefetch data and even block pop-ups time to time. Fasterfox is the best addon to optimize FireFox performance and to get the most of it. The GUI is very easy-to-use so everyone can use it, even total noobs.

#2 - NoScript
NoScript is a security addon which blocks Javascript/Java/Flash from untrusted domains. If you’re unaware, Javascript is the biggest security enemy for FireFox and it can cause a lot of problems and expose your PC to remote attacks. For example, there is some security bug in FireFox 2.0.0.5 which could allow exploiters to use Javascript to read passwords from your FireFox password manager. NoScript will improve FireFox’s security drastically.

#3 - Adblock Plus
Fasterfox and FireFox can block pop-ups natively but these aren’t perfect. Adblock Plus is the latest word against pop-ups and annoying advertisements. Install Adblock Plus to ensure browsing without pop-ups, advertisement, and to save your bandwidth and your eyes from annoying crap on lame websites. You can download this addon for better internet experience.

#4 - Download Statusbar
FireFox’s default download window is quite annoying, you can get rid of that annoying download window by using this addon. The download statusbar will place download status on the status bar instead of the annoying window. It also improves the FireFox download manager and add some cool features for the end users.

#5 - RefControl
It took me a lot of time to choose the last addon in our Top Five list. But finally I picked this one. RefControl allows you to emulate ‘referrers’. Many websites are using referrers check on their file servers to ensure people are not leeching from FileMirrors. However, many websites are using queue system and money scams and making people pay for free files. With this plugin, you can emulate referrers and override their security check and download files directly from the fileserver. This is the ultimate weapon against Antileech scripts, so use it wisely.