This is a must have Firefox tool to consider. Ever find yourself having to uninstall Firefox then reinstall it for some reason? Then to make things worse, you have to deal with all of the extensions you had previously? This idea may very well make this a problem of the past…

If you’ve ever had to re-install Firefox, or you’re installing Firefox for the first time on a new computer, you know it can be a pain to hunt down and install your favorite extensions. This week, I’m going to try to relieve some of that pain using previously-mentioned Firefox extension Mass Installer.

The Mass Installer extension reads a list of extension URLs from a text file and automatically installs them all in one fell swoop. Obviously that’s pretty handy, but you still have to hunt down the URLs of your favorite extensions and paste them all into a text file, and who has time for that?

To be honest… I do. So, to make things really easy on you, I’ve packaged several of the best Firefox extensions for basic use (the must-haves for any user), blogging, web development, and performance enhancement in four separate packages that you can quickly and easily install with the Mass Installer extension.
mass-installer-progress.png

First, install the Mass Installer extension. After that it’s really easy to install the extension packs. Just go to the Mass Installer options (go to Tools -> Extensions, select Mass Installer and click Options) and enter the URL of the pack you’d like to install (see URLs below). Click OK and Mass Installer takes care of the rest. Once you restart your browser, every extension in the pack should be installed to Firefox. Mass Installer will check for updated versions of the extensions on restart, so even if the extensions get old, Mass Installer has got you covered…. Source: Hack Attack

[tags]blogging,web development,firefox extensions,performance enhancements[/tags]