100 Firefox Add-ons For Students


Firefox Add-ons can now help you in everyday e-learning, no matter if you are a student or a parent who’s helping his/her children. Today we wanted to share with you a list of Firefox extensions that can help you out with your daily learning and studying sessions.
So here there’s a list of tools, from subject-specific tools to tools to help with research and productivity to tools that give parents control over the safety of the family computer, there are sure to be plenty of great options for you.
Here’s the list:

  • Math

    Download these add-ons to have access to everything from calculators to math encyclopedias.
    1. Find theorems, basic problems, and axioms listed in this great resource for students learning math.
    2. Search one of the biggest math resources available on the web with this tool.
    3. Use this tool as a calculator extension in Firefox.
    4. Here’s another calculator extension available for Firefox.
    5. This calculator suite provides specialized functions such as compound interest, temperature, wind chill, body mass index, and more.
    6. Enter up to five equations with this tool and see results graphed.
    7. For upper-level students in math, physics, or engineering, this tool will help generate math equations.
    8. Convert measurements, time zones, or temperatures with this tool.
    9. Learn the current conversion for any currency in over 180 different exchange rates.



  • Science

    Help your children enhance their science lessons with these add-ons.
    1. Use this tool when doing science research to get results from quality websites.
    2. Find definitions to 100,000 life science terms with this tool.
    3. This tool instantly recognizes results from sites such as PubMed and Google Scholar and creates a mash-up of available information.
    4. To broaden your student’s search for scientific research, use this tool to search by specific areas across Europe.
    5. Perfect for students interested in pursuing a future in the medical field, this dictionary provides definitions to tons of medical terms.
    6. Locate journal articles available on PDF with this tool.
    7. Search for physics information located at the arXiv repository.
    8. This tool offers a great way to learn about the weather as it’s happening.



  • English Language Arts and Reference Materials

    Find everything from dictionaries to vocabulary builders to free online texts with these tools.
    1. Search Bibliomania to find information from classic texts, biographies, reference material, and more.
    2. Described as part flash card and part dictionary, this add-on makes learning vocabulary fun.
    3. Use this add-on to search for literature and US history study guides and teaching resources with Shmoop.com.
    4. Search by book title to get access to a completely free online version of over 30,000 books.
    5. When students use this tool, they can research any word that occurs on a webpage with results coming via Wikipedia, dictionaries, and other sites.
    6. Highlight a word and find its definition immediately.
    7. Quickly find a synonym for any word with this add-on.
    8. This tool is a spellchecker based on American English.
    9. Use this add-on to have access to the Merriam-Webster dictionary right on your computer.
    10. Have access to yet another popular dictionary with this tool that also includes a thesaurus, spellcheck, and translate function.
    11. Search for the meaning of a word among many dictionaries and other resources. There is even a family filter on this.
    12. Enhance your Wikipedia searches with this tool.
    13. Find definitions and synonyms with the visual display available with this dictionary.
    14. Get more than just definitions with this dictionary that includes audio, phonetics, and usage information.
    15. Use this tool to search Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other online encyclopedias.






    Foreign Languages

    If your children are learning foreign languages, then look into these tools as an aid to their studies.
    1. This tool is designed to give students access to tools to facilitate language learning. Use this with any of the specific language tools.
    2. Learning ancient Greek just got easier with this tool.
    3. Alpheios also provides tools for learning Latin.
    4. For students studying Greek, this tool will help them discover any spelling errors they may have made.
    5. This tool will help students learning German check their work.
    6. Students can see if they are progressing in their German with this tool.
    7. Use Google Translate to help find French words from English.
    8. Students can use this tool as a companion to the English to French version.
    9. If Italian is the target language for your student, then give this tool a try to boost her language learning.
    10. Again, this works as a companion tool to the English to Italian tool.
    11. This tool helps with anything from language learning to web page translation and supports 71 languages.



  • Productivity

    Keep kids and parents on track with these productivity tools.
    1. Use this tool to take notes on your computer.
    2. Get all your Google shortcuts displayed easily anywhere you like on your computer.
    3. If you like to spend a little time doing fun stuff on the Internet, use this tool to remind you to get back to your schoolwork.
    4. If you use a Smartsheet to-do list, then this add-on will make it easier to keep it updated.
    5. Put virtual sticky notes anywhere and even organize them by tabs.
    6. This add-on makes all the tabs a different color, thereby making them more distinguishable when you have several open at once.
    7. Another tab management tool, this one adds extra rows of tabs instead of keeping them tiny and all on one row.
    8. Effortlessly add an item onto your Google calendar with this tool.
    9. Have an entire day’s worth of tasks displayed for students to stay on track of each day’s assignments.
    10. This tool schedules tabs to open at specific times throughout the day. Assign lessons on websites that occur when you want them to.
    11. This tool tracks how much time is spent on each website so you can track productive time, play time, or see how long a task is taking.



  • Research

    These add-ons are sure to boost online research for any project.
    1. Leave notes on websites, then organize any way you want and even share them with others.
    2. Use this tool to discover search terms based on a keyword you choose. This is a good way to boost Internet research.
    3. Collect, manage, and cite all the research sources you find online with this add-on.
    4. Students making notes on web pages and journal articles will find this tool helpful with both marking and citing references.
    5. Add highlights and sticky notes to websites to help with your Internet research.
    6. Quickly and easily highlight and share information with this tool. It even has a memory tester.
    7. Use up to three different highlighting colors to keep track of important information on websites.
    8. You can save, organize, and share information from the Internet with this add-on.
    9. Summarize any website to quickly determine if it holds the information you need.
    10. Look up information from Wiktionary and Wikipedia quickly when this tool is installed.



  • Parental Controls and Computer Security

    Make sure your computer is safe for the entire family with these great tools.
    1. This add-on is a filter for parents to put in place to keep out unwanted and inappropriate websites.
    2. This tool makes Firefox searches safe for kids ages 3-12.
    3. Another kid-safe search engine, this one is appropriate for children and teens.
    4. Turn your browser into one with games and websites safe for your family.
    5. Parents set which websites are safe for their children with this add-on.
    6. Eliminate menu items your children don’t need to streamline their computer usage.
    7. This tool allows parents to set parameters that will clean up what is seen on webpages to correct spelling errors, eliminate foul language, and more.
    8. If you would prefer your children not be bombarded with unnecessary ads while surfing the net, then download this add-on.
    9. This password manager allows you to create strong passwords and manage them all with one master password. It even autofills passwords for you.
    10. Prevent children from accidentally filling out suspicious forms with this tool.
    11. This tool adds an image to the toolbar that indicates the level of threat at any given time from malware, viruses, and more.
    12. Stay on top of certificate updates to ensure your children’s websurfing is done among legitimately authorized sites.
    13. Non-deletable longterm cookies can compromise your family’s privacy, but not with this tool in use.
    14. Stop pop-up ads, banners, and ad tracking malware with this tool.
    15. This add-on puts a flag on each website visited to indicate the country in which it is being hosted. When you click on the flag, you can learn about the trustworthiness of the site.



  • Search Engines and Web Browsing

    Find specialized search engines and help for web browsing when you use these add-ons.
    1. When using this search engine, only trustworthy sites will appear in search results. This is great for student research projects.
    2. This tool provides a safe place for children to surf the net with hand-picked safe sites.
    3. Use this add-on and 50% of the revenue from your Internet searching goes to a charity of your choice.
    4. This add-on will provide results from SchoolTube to your searches.
    5. Speed up your web browsing experience with this tool.
    6. Enhance Google searches with this tool that uses a tag-cloud technique.
    7. Now you can perform searches within over 110 websites just by right-clicking your mouse.
    8. Use this tool to help you find sites similar to the one you are currently searching for.
    9. Don’t rely on just one search engine when you can use this tool that pulls from all the major sites plus plenty of others.
    10. Search through all the sites you have bookmarked through Delicious to refine your searches by the sites you choose.
    11. TeacherTube offers tons of great educational videos, and this tool will help you search it more efficiently.



  • Miscellaneous

    Take a look at this collection of add-ons that provide everything from research in art to discounted textbooks to a homeschooling resources toolbar.
    1. From photography to fine arts, this search engine will help you find exactly what you need from the world of art.
    2. Find and share information in the sciences, social studies, arts, and humanities.
    3. Use this add-on to help find and manage evidence used for debating.
    4. Students can learn touch-typing with this add-on.
    5. Once typing skills are beginning to set, try these drills to motivate faster and more accurate typing.
    6. Find textbooks at big savings with this tool.
    7. Read etexts or ebooks within Firefox with this tool.
    8. If you are seeking new or used books, use this tool to find the lowest price from major sites such as eBay and Amazon.
    9. This toolbar is a great addition for homeschooling families and includes lots of great links and tools.
    10. Keep all the tutorials you may be using in one place with this add-on.

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