26 Firefox recommended extensions mega chart
As you might know, FoxyTunes is featured on the prestigious “Firefox recommended add-ons” list, along with 25 other excellent extensions such as Greasemonkey, Performancing, StumbleUpon and FireFTP. The list is displayed in a random order, which gives each and every extension on the list an equal chance of being discovered by the users.
One thing missing from the ‘recommended’ page is the ability to sort the list to find out which extensions are the most popular, which are top rated and so on.
So, I decided to create these charts manually and share the results. The numbes are from March 3, 2007.
The complete list: Adblock Plus, Answers, BlueOrganizer, ChatZilla, Clipmarks, Cooliris, del.icio.us, Download Statusbar, Firebug, FireFTP, FlashGot, Forecastfox, Foxmarks, FoxyTunes, Greasemonkey, JAJAH, Jeteye, Kodak EasyShare Gallery Companion, LinkedIn Companion, Map+, Performancing, Pronto, Sage, StumbleUpon, Web Developer, Yoono
Sorted by average user rating:
- Web Developer – 4.83
- FoxyTunes – 4.79
- FlashGot – 4.76
- Adblock Plus – 4.73
- StumbleUpon – 4.71
- Firebug – 4.54
- Performancing – 4.48
- Download Statusbar – 4.42
- ChatZilla – 4.37
- Clipmarks – 4.27
- Cooliris – 4.21
- Foxmarks – 4.21
- Sage – 4.13
- Answers – 4.12
- FireFTP – 4.12
- Yoono – 4.00
- Greasemonkey – 3.82
- Forecastfox – 3.81
- LinkedIn Companion – 3.23
- BlueOrganizer – 3.05
- Jeteye – 2.89
- Map+ – 2.73
- JAJAH – 2.71
- del.icio.us – 2.54
- Pronto – 2.50
- Kodak EasyShare Gallery Companion – 1.56
Sorted by number of downloads per week:
- Download Statusbar – 228,236
- Adblock Plus – 198,518
- Forecastfox – 182,349
- FlashGot – 176,414
- FireFTP – 133,702
- FoxyTunes – 109,253
- Web Developer – 88,574
- StumbleUpon – 85,772
- Firebug – 83,103
- Cooliris – 78,784
- Clipmarks – 68,892
- del.icio.us – 65,745
- Foxmarks – 65,093
- Map+ – 64,969
- Greasemonkey – 57,842
- Answer – 52,858
- Kodak EasyShare Gallery Companion – 43,555
- Sage – 41,962
- Yoono – 40,459
- ChatZilla – 39,333
- JAJAH – 38,697
- BlueOrganizer – 37,715
- Performancing – 33,938
- Jeteye – 26,476
- Pronto – 26,460
- LinkedIn Companion – 18,772
Sorted by number of user comments:
- Forecastfox – 3354
- StumbleUpon – 1810
- Web Developer – 1138
- FlashGot – 1123
- FoxyTunes – 1105
- FireFTP – 703
- Download Statusbar – 626
- Adblock Plus – 592
- Sage – 337
- Greasemonkey – 320
- Foxmarks – 296
- Firebug – 279
- Cooliris – 237
- del.icio.us – 231
- Answers – 169
- Performancing – 160
- ChatZilla – 156
- JAJAH – 99
- Clipmarks – 67
- Yoono – 63
- Jeteye – 55
- Map+ – 52
- BlueOrganizer – 37
- LinkedIn Companion – 26
- Kodak EasyShare Gallery Companion – 18
- Pronto – 10
Obsviously, if an extension is new it will probably have less user comments, which brings us to the last chart.
Sorted by seniority (from older to newer):
- ChatZilla – 16
- Download Statusbar – 26
- Web Developer – 60
- Sage – 77
- StumbleUpon – 138
- FoxyTunes – 219
- FlashGot – 220
- Forecastfox – 398
- FireFTP – 684
- Answers – 735
- Greasemonkey – 748
- Clipmarks – 1407
- Jeteye – 1508
- LinkedIn Companion – 1512
- Performancing – 1730
- Yoono – 1833
- Firebug – 1843
- Adblock Plus – 1865
- Cooliris – 2207
- Map+ – 2394
- Foxmarks – 2410
- JAJAH – 2577
- Pronto – 3348
- BlueOrganizer – 3481
- del.icio.us – 3615
- Kodak EasyShare Gallery Companion – 4441
The number to the right of each extension is its id in Mozilla database – newer extensions have bigger ids.
It’s great to see that FoxyTunes is doing well compared to its peers – and what a great company this is! 
