Aug 13
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Firefox add-ons you can’t live without

Well, that would probably cover all of them.

I have been a big firefox fan from the beginning. IE and I never really got on so was very glad to ditch it. I have tried many addons over the years, some have remained good friends and others have come and gone..I miss the egg timer addon!

What does your firefox window look like? Mine is pretty full, little icons wedged in everywhere, always room for more. As with everything, I love trying out new toys.

Here is a list of my favourite firefox add-ons. Would love to hear what you use and why, especially if it’s not on my list..

  • Adsense Notifier- As the name suggests, updates you on your adsense earnings.
  • Auto Copy- Simple little addon, select text, and it will automatically copy it for you. Bit of a love hate with this one, I thought I’d try it out and it was so annoying when it copied things I didn’t want to, but I slowly changed my habits and now I’m so lazy I couldn’t do without it now. I find myself in applications outside firefox getting frustrated wondering why it hasn’t auto copied.
  • Better Flickr- from the legends at lifehacker. It adds some really handy little tools to make it just a bit easier to get around flickr.
  • Better Gmail- another from lifehacker, and I think this one have to be one of my favourites. Adds a ton of great extra features to gmail.
  • Colorzilla- adds a colour picker, makes it super easy to get the hex or rgb of colours anywhere.
  • commentful- I really need to get into a better habit of using this one. Notifies you of replies in blog posts and forums, which is great, if you remember to track them…getting there slowly *hehe*
  • DT whois- at the click of a button on the domain in question, opens up the domain tools whois page.
  • exch- this is a new one, only installed last week. Does a pretty good job of what it’s suppose to..currency exchange.
  • fireform- a form filler-in-era
  • fotofox- quick photo upload to flickr
  • IE Tab- another one I use quite a lot for a variety of reasons, which don’t all include testing pages in IE ;)
  • measureit- a nifty ruler for measuring elements on webpages.
  • menu editor- hands up who has pressed open in new window instead of open in new tab more times than you care to admit and it really pisses you off…Me! So, you just delete it all together from the menu..easy! delete a bunch of other useless stuff too so your menu doesn’t end up being bigger than your screen.
  • screengrab!- sure, taking a screen dump of what you can see is easy. But what about the whooole page or just a small selection. Choose to copy or save it.
  • search status- if you could wear this this out with your eyes, I reckon everyone’s would be super faded. Shows PR, Alexa and now compete rank for pages. Also makes it easy to check for indexed pages and backlinks for a specific site.
  • stumbleupon- if you don’t know what it is..where have you been hiding!
  • web developer- a ton of handy tools for web developers.

    • So that’s my list of addons I am actively using at the moment. I hope someone finds something useful in it and do share any other great addons your using!

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