Do you spend minimum three hours lurking on Google Reader? Do you StumbleUpon a LOT in the anticipation of finding great content. Do you read Wikipedia even when you are not going to need the information ever? If you have answered Yes to all the questions then there is a high probability that you are an information whore. Let me just make it calm because this is not odd and there are thousands of people like you who do exactly the same thing. I thought it would be nice to share some Firefox extensions with you, which I believe will let you do more in less time and that’s saying that you would be able to waste your time on more things in the same time.

Some of the essential add-ons for Firefox would be:

Ubiquity: If you want to install just one extension in your Firefox then this is it.The Mozilla labs product can do alone what about 20 Firefox extensions would. This extension lets users to give commands by typing in and thus connects web with language. You can submit a story on digg, post tweets, translate text, get word meanings, add events to your google calendar, search on wikipedia and I have just started. The Mozilla developers continuously update this extension and add more features to it.

SageToo: This light weight RSS extension can fetch the desired information right into your browser without you having to lurk around Google Reader. There are other similar extensions as well which can do the same job almost as well, but what makes Sage different from its peers is the News Reader layout.

StumbleUpon: This is no-brainer that that you get to browse some good finds on the web using that StumbleUpon toolbar. StumbleUpon has definitely went toolbar-less but I would still recommend installing it as the latest version sans any toolbar lacks in promoting interactivity.

Brief is another Firefox extension meant for reading RSS feeds and it is the closest to Google Reader that you can find among Firefox Extensions. It displays stories in a similar manner to that of Google Reader but its layout and presentation of feeds seems less cluttering. You can also bookmark and tag stories within.

Feed Sidebar: This is pretty similar to SageToo and Brief in functionality and it also displays you RSS feeds right into your browser window. The better thing about it is that users can see the feeds in the sidebar while in the above mentioned two extensions you needed a full page to read feeds.

Read It Later: It’s pretty obvious that you are not capable of putting in all that Megabytes of information into your tiny mind. Not every content needs to be just looked at and forget, you do stumble into some posts and stories now and then which you wish to spend more time reading carefully. Read It Later is a relatively new extension which also won the honor of Best Firefox 3 extension. This extension allows users to save the links to be read later. Further, the saved links can also be synchronized.

Foxmarks Synchronizer: This extension is a must for anyone who uses multiple computers. Foxmarks lets you synchronize the bookmarks across different systems. You just need to have one account with Foxmarks and you may get all your links in your Firefox web browser from where ever you are.

TwitterFox:There should be no doubt about the fact that Twitter has also become one of the source of information. Twitter users like Rober Scoble and Guy Kawasaki keep tweeting useful links on Twitter which you might find interesting.

Juice is a new Firefox extension which allows you to find the information about a particular word or a video right inside a sidebar in the window. It aggregates a quick summary of the topicfrom the sources such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Google News etc. I gave it a try but then I unistalled it because of my hatred towrds sidebars in Firefox. But I would still recommend if you have faster machines and bigger displays to let a sidebar take away some space in return of some relevant information.