Awesome Emoji Picker

Ah, emoji, the hieroglyphs of our times. Many linguists have already began studying them, some even contemplating the role of the yellow round faces in the future of global language. Here at Softpedia we only write software reviews, and thus will not partake in such a meaningful debate. Instead, we’ll take a look at an extension for Mozilla Firefox, called Awesome Emoji Picker.

I personally consider emoji a conversation enhancer. Writing can sometimes feel limited when compared to speech, so I will often add emoji (or smileys or emoticons) to a chat whenever I feel that my “tone” could be misunderstood. Am I a bad writer? Maybe 😅, but even so, I like to keep my emoji close.

Now, it’s a bit unlikely that you’ll use Awesome Emoji Picker on Facebook, where all the emoticons are easily available, but in case the social network is running a bit slow on any particular day, the Firefox extension might actually work faster.

Not all websites have emoji picking tools, like most social media platforms. If you really wanted to add an emoji to a post on webpage, then you could just use this Firefox Extension. If you want a good example, just look at the emoticon that I used above; no, Softpedia’s text editing toolbar doesn’t feature an emoji picker 😂.

Awesome Emoji Picker could also be a great choice, because it remembers your favorite symbols and enables you to use all the modern smileys, including the ones from Google, Apple, Twitter or Windows. There is one small exception, however: the flags.

Flags aren’t correctly displayed in the extension’s interface, but the countries’ initials are shown instead. They will work correctly when you use them on Facebook, but not on any other platforms that I’ve tested. Unless you really love flags, you could use still use Awesome Emoji Picker and wait for the bug to be fixed.