Top 10 useless Firefox extensions

While some browser plugins can change the way you surf, others are basically meant for more mundane purposes. PC Magazine charts the top 10 most useless firefox extensions available. Take for example Leet key, which “transforms typed or static text to L337, ROT13, BASE64, HEX, URL, BIN, DES Morse code, DVORAK keyboard layout and to lower/to upper case functionality, Leet Font…”. =)

Just a few short years ago, Mozilla’s Firefox browser was a grassroots upstart, struggling for its share of the browser market. Today, it’s a serious threat to the once-omnipotent Internet Explorer’s throne. One of the reasons for Firefox’s success is the ability to customize the browser through extensions. Firefox is an open-source browser, and Mozilla encourages users to customize it by downloading add-ons that suit them or by rolling their own.

Extensions can change the look of your browser, streamline your workflow, add new features, and even speed up your surfing. Or they can do nothing at all, as you’ll soon see. In this Top 10 slideshow, we celebrate the silly, the quirky, and the useless in the Firefox extension family.