Matching GTK ThemeĪ wholly optional extra this one. If you like to keep an eye on your active downloads while using other applications, having a Skype call, or reading websites like this one, UnityFox Revived is a must-have. It’s simple enough: when there are downloads in progress it displays a progress bar and download count. We featured the revived UnityFox extension a couple of weeks back. ‘GNotifier’ on Mozilla Add-ons 2. Download Count & Progress Bars

If you’re using GNOME Shell you’ll get nifty actionable screen toasts that let you open the downloaded file right away - handy! Once enabled (and you’ve restarted) you’ll get download notifications on your Linux desktop through its native desktop notification system. Yeah, it’s bizarre that Firefox can’t do this by default, but it can’t. This first one is simple enough: get a desktop notification when files you download in the browser complete. None of these are new, but they’re all undeniably helpful and help you get the best Firefox experience you can on the Unity desktop. These little extras, trivial though they seem, help to bridge the (admittedly few) gaps and missing functionality between browser and OS. That’s where the following Ubuntu Firefox add-ons come in. Firefox is the default browser in Ubuntu - but it doesn’t integrate with the Unity desktop as well as it could.

Mozilla firefox add ons for ubuntu