Firefox Travel Add-Ons

The Firefox web browser has many additional applications - add-ons - that can provide the traveler with all kinds of useful online tools

Firefox Travel add-ons

Firefox allows you to customize toolbars to suit your requirements - here are some travel add-ons to try:

FareFirst: FareFirst add-on allows you to monitor prices and availability of flights in both domestic and international markets. Fares are updated three times daily on weekdays, once a day on weekends. And the rating system indicates if a particular flight is near its record historical low price

Advanced Travel: Advanced Travel is a fare shopping tool - it allows you to compare data from multiple online sources. It queries sites, aggregates the data and returns the results in one tidy webpage

Lonely Planet: Search through the Lonely Planet travel guides

LookLocal Maps: provides driving directions, mapping locations and searches for local products and services. You can also get local traffic data through reports and camera monitoring

1-ClickWeather:transfers instant weather reports for your particular geolocation with up to five days of forecasting data. It also provides access to weather videos, Doppler radar, and satellite imaging

WindFox: displays wind and weather data for all the top surfing spots

gTranslate: translation software built into your. This add-on uses Google’s translation service, which covers most foreign language conversions

Skyhook Wireless Loki: This enables your laptop as a a virtual GPS device. It leverages Skyhook’s Wi-Fi positioning system to determine your physical location and then provides search results relevant to your location

JiWire Wi-Fi Toolbar: Finds and locates wireless networks in your vicinity. It currently monitors over 92000 verified public hotspots in 115 countries

SuperPages: Allows you to perform local searches for products and services. You can highlight text on the page and search with a single click for local results relating to that text

JaJah Web Activated Telephony: This app is like Skype for your browser - it adds telephony capability to Firefox. Regardless of your telephone service plan, you can call through the JaJah network anywhere in the world

Exch Currency Converter: This is a currency conversion tool that feeds off of Yahoo! Finance. It gives quick access to currency rates, as well as historical currency performance data

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