Recommended Firefox Extensions
My favourite browser which I highly recommend if you don’t already have it, is Firefox. And one of the reasons It’s so great is because of how easy it is to customize.
Although I primarily use Firefox for browsing, as an internet marketer I use Firefox and Internet Explorer to make sure my blogs and sites look the same in both browsers. As of June 2007, 93.39% of users are using either Firefox or Internet Explorer - 14.55% and 78.84%, respectively [source] - so it’s wise to make sure whatever you do will work in both IE and FF.
Anyway, I love FF because of all the useful extensions that make my life easier. Because FF is cross-platform, available on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux, these extensions are cross-platform, so anybody can use them. So here is a list of the relevant extensions I have installed.
Last update: September 1, 2007
Google PageRank Status - Want to know the PR of the websites you visit but don’t want to install Google Toolbar? This nifty little extension shows the PR of the current opened website on the bottom right of your FF window.
FireFTP - A lightweight FTP client.
Sage - A lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader. Great for blogs, social bookmarks, news sites, and more! Has a single Sage button which opens a side panel listing your feeds (which can be organized into folders). Clicking on a feed shows recent feed items listed below and loads a page showing more details about the items.
Adblock - An internet marketer’s worst nightmare. I still think it’s a great extension if you want to clean up an ad-filled website. You can manually block ads and use wildcards to block images or iframes from an entire domain or directory.
Del.icio.us Extension - Adds a “My Bookmarks” button to easily access your bookmarks and a “Tag” button to easily bookmark websites you visit. You need a Del.icio.us account to use this.
StumbleUpon Toolbar - Same idea as the Del.icio.us extension. Add sites to your favourites easily. You need a StumbleUpon account to use this.
ScribeFire - This is some really nifty blogging software. You can add your blog account(s) and . I didn’t even know about this until I saw Ed Dale using it yesterday on his 30 Day Challenge blog. I’ve only used it once (posting this!) but it looks really cool.
ReloadEvery - This is a very simple tool. If you right-click on a webpage, it will give you an option to reload the page at a set interval. I don’t use it too often, but it’s great for sites that log you out after a few minutes of inactivity!
Adsense Notifier - It’s a customizable little extension that sits at the bottom-right of the status bar, showing you clicks, impressions, earnings, etc. Great tool!
Allow Right-Click - Some websites don’t let you right-click for one reason or another. This extension bypasses most sites that try to prevent right-clicks.
IE Tab - Most internet marketers or webmasters use at least the two major browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox, so they can make sure their website looks the same in both of them. As the name suggests, this extension lets you use IE within a Firefox tab.
ColorZilla - Another great tool for webmasters and internet marketers alike. It lets you select the colour of any pixel in the browser window, among other things.
MeasureIt - Another web tool which lets you drag out a ruler box and measure anything in the browser window in pixels.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver - The basic version lets you take a full screenshot of an entire webpage, top to bottom. Great for surveying the layout of a website.
VideoDownloader - Lets you save videos from YouTube and other flash video sites in FLV format.
DownThemAll! - This little gem allows you to mass download anything on a website. Got a lot of files or photos on a page you don’t want to spend the time to click and download? Just use this!
Fetch Text URL - This is little time saver that lets you highlight and directly open text URLs (like this one: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jchien/code/ftu.html) in the current tab, or a new tab or window, like this one.
Twitterbar - Lets you update your Twitter from Firefox. Has a little unobtrusive button that you press after typing your message in the address bar.
