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10 Must Have Firefox Extensions for Students

http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/firefox-extensions-students/

1. Taboo allows you to save tabs for later. Once you save a tab, you can close it and go back to it at some point in the future (by viewing a list of all your saved tabs, searching saved tabs, or viewing saved tabs by the date you saved them).
2. Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE) allows you to back up all of your extensions, search plugins, bookmarks, cookies, saved passwords, themes, preferences, histories, and more. You can sync your browser between computers.
3. Reminderfox is a calendar extension built for Firefox.
4. LeechBlock to block out sites after a time limit — i.e., allowing yourself 10 minutes of distractions every hour.
5. Trailfire lets you comment on any web page and link pages together to create topic trails.
6. Delicious is the web’s bookmarking site, so going to different computers makes finding your sites easy.
7. Wired-Marker is a Firefox extension that allows you to annotate and highlight the text on any web page.
8. Juice can take any text on a page and automatically call up additional research information about that text.
9. Zotero is a bibliographic plugin that can help you collect, manage, and cite all the research you do on the web.
10. Math students: FireCal is a comprehensive calculator

Updated: September 17, 2009