Don’t get us wrong, Google Reader is our favorite feedreader. But sometimes, we just wish it was a little…better. Here are 50 Firefox extensions and scripts to make Google Reader your own.
Notification
Google Reader Notifier Firefox Extension - Multilingual extension that tells you how many items are unread. Google Reader Toolkit - Handy add-on that alerts you to unread items. Google Reader Watcher - Firefox extension that displays all unread feeds. Interface
Colorful List View - Colors the headers in the list view. Google Reader Air Skin - Light skin for Google Reader. Google Reader Bottom Link - Adds a small link to the original page at the bottom of the feed. Google Reader for wider screens - Changes the length of stories in Google Reader. Google Reader Optimized - User style that gets rid of all unnecessary elements. Google Reader Plain and Green - Green skin based on Sage’s Plain and Green style. Google Reader Prettifier - OS X theme for Google Reader. Fork with a few bugfixes here. Google Reader Preview - Shows the original page instead of the article summary (fork with widescreen support here). Google Reader Preview Enhanced - Better version of Google Reader Preview. Google Reader “Slate series” - Clean theme in slate colors. You may also be interested in the modified version. Google Reader title unread count - Moves the unread count to the front in the page title. Reading
CodeReader - Increases the font size of code snippets in the currently viewed item. Google Reader Functional Links - Quick Links fork with updated hotkeys. Google Reader Quick Links - Shortcut keys for links in the story you’re currently reading. Google Reader show original in new tab - The must-have script for Google Reader. Just hit ‘t’ to open the current article in a new tab. Note: this script conflicts with a Google Reader native shortcut. You may want to use Masayuki Ataka’s script that changes the hotkey to ‘y’. Google Reader Slideshow - Automatically scroll through your items at a user-set speed. Grease Reader - Adds a ton of powerful hotkeys. Iris - A Google Reader sidebar influenced by Sage. Read By Mouse - Toggles a mouse-only mode where you read using only your mouse. Search
Google Reader Custom Search - Adds search to Google Reader via Google Co-op. Google Reader Custom Search (2) - Updated version of the Google Operating System script that displays results inside Google Reader like normal posts. Google Reader Gears Search - Uses Google Gears to search your posts. Google Reader Search - Search powered by Google’s Blogsearch that searches the current feeds or the entire Blogosphere. Integration
Facebook Sharer + Google Reader - Sends the current story to Facebook. Gmail Box for Google Reader - Integrates Google Reader’s subscriptions to Gmail (based on Google Reader Redux). Google Reader + BlueDot - Based on Google Reader + del.icio.us, but for BlueDot.us. Google Reader + Bookmarks - Sends Reader posts to Google’s bookmarking site. Google Reader + del.icio.us - Based on Google Reader + Bookmarks, but for del.icio.us. Forks here and here. Google Reader + ma.gnolia - Based on Google Reader + del.icio.us, but for ma.gnolia. Google Reader + Simpy - Sends Reader posts to Simpy.com. Google Reader + Twitter - Sends Reader posts to Twitter. Google Reader 30Boxes - Add 30Boxes events from the search field. Google Reader digg news - Adds a “Digg It” button to every item. Works well with Digg Button Animator Enabler. Google Reader Redux - Integrate Google Reader into your Gmail account. Misc.
Auto add to Google Reader - Automatically bypasses the “Add to Google homepage”/”Add to Google Reader” choice Firefox usually gives you when subscribing to a feed. Better GReader - Combines an optimized skin, Smart Google Reader Subscribe, and Quick Links into a Firefox extension. Google Gears - Take Reader (and tons of other apps) offline with this great Google product. Google Reader Subscribe - Adds a button to add the current page’s feed to Google Reader. Jasper’s Google Reader Subscribe - Based on Google Reader Subscribe, but concentrating on taking up as little room as possible. Smart Google Reader Subscribe - Based on Jasper’s script, but tells you if the feed is already in Google Reader (saving you clicks). Tag Cloud - Generates a tag cloud of all your tags.
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