Create Collections of your Favorite Firefox Add-ons with Add-on Collector

A new extension to Firefox, the Add-on collector lets you categorize, mix, match and mingle all your add-ons in one spot built into your browser. With this extension, you can migrate your collections to different machines, ping your friends with top recommendations, and subscribe to collections you admire, so you’ll know when they are growing their follower base.


What are Add-on Collections?
Collections are just a packaged set of add-ons, themes, dictionaries, and language packs that are given a name, a description, and a unique URL on the Mozilla Add-on website.

How to create a Collection?
Creating a collection of your own is as easy as giving it a name, like “My Favorite Themes” or “My Favorite Download Extensions”, and choosing what add-ons you’d like to have in the collection. The collection then shows up in the directory. It can be easily shared with your friends or linked to from your blog. You can start creating your own collections on the Mozilla Add-on website.
 

Collections are Time-Saving

Collections could save your time in several ways. First of all instead of installing each Add-on to Firefox one at a time, you can just download a collection and install all at one go. You can also subscribe to a collection so that if it gets updated with few more add-ons, you will be notified immediately. You can normally do this via RSS. However the Add-on collector extension lets you do this automatically.

Add-on Collector Extension for Firefox

The Add-on Collector is available for download from the Mozilla Add-ons website. This extension keeps you connected with your favorite add-ons and collections in several ways:

• Access your favorite collections from Firefox
• Collections that you mark as favorites in the Collection Directory appear in a special part of the Add-ons Manager. You’ll be able to stay up-to-date and view the contents of each collection.
• Share add-ons with the Publishing Menu
• Each add-on you install is easily shared with a friend via e-mail or published to one of your collections through a publishing menu.
• Receive notifications
• Collector will alert you when one of your favorite collections has a new item, and mark it for you to review later.
• Automatically publish your installed add-ons to a collection
• Auto-publisher functionality keeps your collection continuously updated with your latest add-ons, keeping your friends who subscribe up-to-date.

Download Add-On Collector Extension For Firefox

Check out the video below which gives an overview of the Add-on Collections: