My 12 Must Have Firefox Addins
2009 January 7
by Sheri Larsen
Here are the 10 Firefox addins I use everyday, starting with the most useful:
Delicious Toolbar – save bookmarks with a right click, browse bookmarks from the brower header (I organize in them in bundles to make drop down folders), open a full featured sidebar to browse and search all your bookmarks.
Roboform Toolbar ($$) – I love Roboform! RoboForm is a “password manager and Web form filler that completely automates password entering and form filling. RoboForm was named PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, and CNET Download.com’s Software of the Year.” Saves passwords, generates secure ones for new sites. Includes an addin that fills in logins with a right click.
ScribeFire – integrated blog editor. Can publish to multiple blogs, store drafts, categorize, standard post editing tools. Handy to have it right in the browser where you can move around to different sites while writing to grab quotes, links, and images. I used it to write this post! Wish it had an option to schedule publishing of posts and better image formatting.- ScreenGrab – captures screen shots – full page, visible page or a selection. The selection option doesn’t work on all pages, but this addin makes grabbing screen shots easy and quick and skips all the browser menus so no cropping later.
- Picnik – opens any image in the Picnik image editor.
- IE Tabs – opens an IE tab to view pages not optimized for Firefox. Handy if you keep getting bounced out of certain sites or can’t use the advanced features.
- GButts – add a drop down list next to the address bar to quickly open your favorite Google services. (I had to edit the header bar to force it to show up.)
- Colorful Tabs – subtle but useful tool that makes each tab a different color.
- Forecast Fox – display the weather in the browser header.
Foxy Tunes – control your media player (including iTunes) from the browser footer.- Undo Closed Tabs Button – This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.
Foxclocks – Ever wonder what time it is in the UK? FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world – or just
your local time – by putting small clocks in your status bar.
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