Top 5 essential Firefox add-ons for Gmail users

Gmail is an awesome Emailing service from Google and has a huge fan following. The Firefox add-ons make it further useful by adding some awesome functionality making your Gmail experience much better. So, if you are a Gmail user and use the Mozilla Firebox browser, you are lucky enough to add new features to your Gmail by simply installing the below listed add-ons on to your Firefox. 🙂

We have listed some of the most popular and the maximum downloaded Firefox add-ons to make your Gmail experience a better one.

1. Gmail Manager

This is a must-have Firefox add-on for all the Gmail users. This add-on helps you in adding awesome features to your Gmail account.

Amongst the vast number of features that this add-on provides, the main features of Gmail Manager Firefox add-on are:

• Manage multiple Gmail accounts
• Receive new mail notifications
• Check the number of unread mails without logging in.

You can download this add-on from here: Gmail Manager

2. Better Gmail

This another highly recommended add-on for Gmail. Basically, this add-on is a collection of various Greasemonkey Scripts.

It adds some useful features to the Gmail like:

• Hierarchy in labels
• File attachment icons
• Filter assistant
• Highlighting of messages on mouse hovering

You can download this add-on from here: Better Gmail

3. Gmail Watcher

This add-on checks your new emails and reports to you in the status bar. One plus point that I see for this add-on is that neither username nor password is needed to use this feature.

The main features of this add-on are:

• Google multiple sign-in mode compatible
• Check Gmail at specific interval (after a few minutes, half-hourly, hourly or manually)
• Use high security network protocol https to get information.

You can download this add-on from here: Gmail Watcher

4. Etacts Gmail Plugin

This is one more awesome Gmail add-on that lets you track emails you’ve sent that are awaiting response and shows you pictures and social information for any incoming email.

Some of the main features of this add-on are:

• Lots of information about those who email you
• Log of your recent conversations; calls to and from the person
• Graph of your contact history over time

You can download this add-on from here: Etacts Gmail Plugin

5. Unread Gmail Favicon

The jetpack featured as part of this Firefox add-on watches your Gmail inbox and annotates the favicon for the Gmail tab with the current number of unread messages.

You can download this add-on from here: Unread Gmail Favicon

I hope that that you use these Firefox add-ons to enhance your Gmail experience. If you like thsi post do not forget to share it on Facebook and Twitter 🙂

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