Firefox Extensions
Mon, 27 February, 2006 – 11:56 pm
Something I've been meaning to do for a while. List my Firefox extensions!
Adsense Notifier – Displays your Adsense earnings in your status bar
Blogger Web Comments – Read blog comments on any web page
Fission – Puts the progress bar over the address bar to make the progress of the page load more visible
HTML Validator – Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source and status bar
LinkChecker – Checks all links as to whether they're valid
Live PageRank – Display live PageRank for the visited page (different to Google PR that's only updated every 3-4 months)
MeasureIt – A pixel ruler for taking measurements and checking alignment
Mozilla Accessibility Extension – Does what it says on the tin
Omea Connector – Allows for quick adding of RSS feeds to Omea Reader
Search Status – Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with extra tools
Server Spy – Indicates what brand of HTTP server the visited site runs on
ShowIP – Shows the IP address of the current page in the status bar
Tab X – Adds a close button to each of the browser tabs
Unread Tabs – Makes unread tabs italics so you know you've not read them
Web Developer – Adds a menu and toolbar with various web developer tools
Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool – Displays a Lynx view of the web page – see how the spiders see your site
I tend to look through the new extensions on the Firefox site every few weeks to see what else has been released. Anyone know of any others that are good then let me know 
You should most def look at the aardvark extension its brilliant for seeing what going on in the page. it allows you to turn it on and see what your divs are doing by highlighting them red when you roll the mouse over them. get it here: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
and one other i use it the ie tab which gives you a view of how it would look in ie within the ff browser handy for developing.
Watch out as soon ill be sending out my own extension called web tagger… ill keep you posted
By slee on Tue, 28 February, 2006
I like using a browser which already has a lot of the functionality of the popular FF extensions built in, and still manages to use less memory than a plain FF install
By oliciv on Tue, 28 February, 2006
Oli – are you talking about MSIE or Opera? The most used firefox extensions of mine would be the Adsense Notifier (that I stare at all day!), the blogger web comments are great in my opinion, the Live PageRank (yes you could just check on various sites for this but I have no time for that!) and of course the web developer toolbar which I've seen a similar version on other browsers.
I've used MSIE, I'm not comfortable with it at all. I used it when Netscape really went downhill, for then around a couple of years. But once Mozilla and Firefox came on the scene I felt more comfortable with those. As for Opera, it's something I could never get used to at all. Perhaps the newer version is better but it's just not my own personal cup of tea. But thanks for your point – of course if you could actually say which browser you mean it might help others
By Sarah on Tue, 28 February, 2006
Sorry, I use Opera now – I'll admit it takes a bit of getting used to but it's well worth it when you do
By oliciv on Tue, 28 February, 2006