Mozilla Based Plugins This is a brief summary about Mozilla's Plugins. These Plugins can be found by going to the Firefox Plugins page. There are more but those listed are the most important you need to help run the Mozilla Browser. Click Here To Download Zip File Of All Plugins Listed Below.

1. Acrobat Reader: This plugin is used to read PDF files. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is a fixed-layout format used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics that compose the document. This file currently works on Windows, Linux & Mac OS X. 2. Adobe Flash Player: This plugin is the universal rich client for delivering effective Adobe Flash experiences across desktops and devices. The Adobe Flash Player is a widely distributed multimedia and application player created and distributed by Macromedia (a division of Adobe Systems). Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Adobe Flash Player, written and distributed by Adobe, that uses vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of video and audio. Strictly speaking, Adobe Flash is the authoring environment and Flash Player is the virtual machine used to run the Flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: "Flash" can mean either the authoring environment, the player, or the application files. This file currently works on Windows, Linux & Mac OS X. 3. Javascript: This plugin enables your computer to run applications and applets that use Java technology. JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to have a similar look to Java, but be easier for non-programmers to work with. The language is best known for its use in websites (as client-side JavaScript), but is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications (for example Microsoft Gadgets in Windows Vista Sidebar). Despite the name, JavaScript is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language, though both have a common debt to C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language was renamed from LiveScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their browser, which was dominant at the time. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self programming language. JavaScript is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation. This file currently works on Windows, Linux & Mac OS X. 4. Quicktime: This plugin is an easy-to-use application for playing, interacting with or viewing video, audio, VR or graphics files. QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and several types of interactive panoramic images. Available for Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, it provides essential support for software packages including iTunes, QuickTime Player (which can also serve as a helper application for web browsers to play media files that might otherwise fail to open) and Safari. This file currently works on Windows, Mac OS X. 5. Shockwave: This plugins displays Web content that has been created by Adobe Director. Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prefixed Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash. Although Shockwave was designed for making a wide variety of online movies and animations, its actual use has become concentrated in the area of game development. Other features not replicated by Flash include a much faster rendering engine, including hardware-accelerated 3D, and support for various network protocols, including Internet Relay Chat. Furthermore, Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called "Xtras". Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux or Solaris despite vocal lobbying efforts. It has also yet to be ported to Intel Macintosh systems, although users can run the PowerPC version under Rosetta emulation. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine. According to Adobe, Macromedia Shockwave Player is available on 52.3% of Internet-enabled PCs.[1] It uses .DCR files created using the authoring tool Macromedia Director. This file currently works on Windows, Mac OS X. 6. Windows Media Player: Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued. In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, build Audio CDs in recordable discs and synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enables users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores. Windows Media Player replaced an earlier piece of software simply called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback. The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and supports its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The first generation Zune software (but not the current second generation software) which actually is a modified version of Windows Media Player, additionally supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio, MPEG-4 and H.264 video formats out-of-the-box. The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM. This file currently works on Windows, Mac OS X. 7. IE-Tab:  This plug-in works with a modified version of the famous Firefox extension called IE View. IE View let the users open IE-only pages in Internet Explorer automatically or manually, but you have to launch a separate window of Internet Explorer, which is not convenient. So I developed IE Tab, embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla and Firefox. This can achieve some degree of integration of different engine, Mozilla gecko and IE, just like what Netscape 8 does. This plug-in, however, won't work on its own. It depends on IE View extension. To use IE-Tab Click On Firefox Icon On Lower Right Corner Of Open Browser Window. Installation: Drag the downloaded xpi file into your Mozilla window and it will be installed. This file currently works on Windows, Mac OS X. This is the compiling of the Plugins used on Mozilla based browsers. They can be found through Mozilla Add-Ons/Plugins. These Plugins can be used on most Mozilla browsers a list of compiling browsers Mozilla runs will come in a future blog. There are othere Plugins that this page doesnt supply but like I said before these are the ones most important.