All-In-One Sidebar

Firefox users who get accustomed to this wonderful extension rarely go back to the clunky default Firefox add-on window. From one clickable and customizable sidebar, you can access your history, bookmarks, downloads, plug-ins, and Web-development tools, as well as an endless amount of content via other extensions.

The latest version of this slick, comprehensive application kicks the teeth out of the Opera browser's sidebar. By making all this extra content available via the same sidebar window, it takes one click on the sidebar's menu to switch among them, minimizing the clutter multiple Firefox extensions can unfortunately create. By default, the sidebar appears as a narrow panel of icons on the left of the screen, but even that can be set to automatically collapse into a thin tab that expands when moused over. Complete, well-designed, and enormously helpful, All-In-One Sidebar ranks among the most useful extensions we've seen.