Firefox, undoubtedly, is one of the most popular browsers available for free. In fact, it is so popular that the latest version, Firefox v3.5, has been downloaded over 160 million times since its release on June 30, 2009. Its immense popularity has led to the availability of a myriad of addons and extensions aimed at improving the user's experience with the browser.

SmarterFox is one such Firefox addon, available for free, which sports several features to help you browse faster. The most important feature of all is its the ability to download all media on a particular webpage with a single-click. For example, if you are watching a Youtube video and wish to download it to your local storage, all you have to do is right-click on the webpage and choose the appropriate option to download the media. SmarterFox will download all media in parallel, increasing the utilization of bandwidth. The only downside of this feature is that you cannot select the type of media to download and the addon downloads all media irrespective of your requirement. Another important feature of Smarterfox is the ease with which it results search results for a term on a webpage. Just select the text, click on the popup bubble and results will show up in no time.

SmarterFox is a very useful Firefox addon that can really help you speed up the most common actions you perform while surfing. Apart from the above mentioned features, SmarterFox can be put to a lot more uses like endless surfing where the next page from a series gets loaded when you reach the bottom.
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