20 Killer Firefox Extension For Bloggers

April 9th, 2008

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One way to be more efficient and productive is to work with the best tools. Since I’m a big fan of Mozilla Firefox I would like to share with you 20 Firefox extensions I really enjoy. Give them a try when you’ll have few minutes and I’m sure you’ll like, at least, few of them. Have fun! :wink:

Effectiveness and Productivity

ScribeFire

ScribeFire
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

MorningCoffee

MorningCoffee
Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs.
This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.).

To Read Later

To Read Later
Temporary bookmarks on the fly, store your pages you want to read later here, instead of opening a multitude of pages in background tabs.

Cooliris Previews

Cooliris Previews
Cooliris Previews gives you the power to browse and share Web links and rich media faster. Just mouse over any link, and the Cooliris preview window immediately appears to show you the content. To email it, just click.

Clipmarks

Clipmarks
Clipmarks lets you clip and share pieces of web pages. Instead of having to bookmark entire pages, our Firefox add-on lets you “clip” the best parts (text, images and video).

BlogRovr

BlogRovr
You don’t have time to read ALL those Blogs! Let RovR do it for you. RovR fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on. BlogRovR also suggests popular items AND lets you Twitter about any site you’re on too.

Hyperwords 3.6

Hyperwords 3.6
Select any word or words on any web page. A menu pops-up. Choose from any one of the many powerful commands. And that’s it. Fully customizable menu and behavior.

All-in-One Sidebar

All-in-One Sidebar
All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.

RSS Readers

Sage

Sage
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t…

Wizz RSS News Reader

Wizz RSS News Reader
A constantly improving RSS and Atom feed reader. It is fairly powerful, feature rich, well supported and has comprehensive online help.

Brief

Brief
Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy as it gets. It is designed to have the right set of features to be both powerful and simple. Brief stores feeds on your disk and presents them on a seamless, interactive page.

Social Media

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Delicious Bookmarks

Delicious Bookmarks
The Official Delicious Add-on seamlessly integrates your browser with del.icio.us, the leading social bookmarking service on the Web.

Shareaholic

Shareaholic
Found something awesome online and can’t wait to pass it on? Tired of copying and pasting endless URLs? Shareaholic allows you to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. Supported services: * digg * del.icio.us * facebook * friendfeed * google bookmarks * magnolia * mixx * reddit * simpy * stumbleupon * truemors * tumblr * twitter * bzzster!

Handy and Cool Stuff

PicLens

PicLens
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. Our new interactive “3D Wall” and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience.

MeasureIt

MeasureIt
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Tab Effect

Tab Effect
Add effects when current tab is changed.

FireShot

FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers. It’s possible to choose whether entire web page or only visible part of this page should be captured. Screenshots can be uploaded to server, saved to disk (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor for further processing.

SeoQuake

SeoQuake
Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, save them for future work, compare them with the results, obtained for other, competitive, projects.

ReminderFox

ReminderFox
ReminderFox is an extension that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application.


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12 Comments »

Comment by Peter
2008-04-10 14:11:22

Exceptional list, you named a few I have never even heard of, thanks! The Me.dium Crowd Surfer, a social browsing add-on, is also a great tool for bloggers. With Me.dium you can check out who is on your site and chat with them in real-time. An easy way to get instant feedback or gauge your sites popularity. We also recently announced compatibility for FF3 as well. We’d love for you to check it out and give us your thoughts.

http://www.me.dium.com/promo/firefox/

me.dium username: pjn

Comment by Hans
2008-04-10 20:43:35

Peter,

thanks for your comment. For sure, I’ll give Me.dium a try! Thanks for the information! :smile:

 
 
Comment by rjleaman
2008-04-11 20:35:11

Thanks for the tip on FireShot. I’ve been quite happy with a combination of SnagIt and Gadwin to date, but this add-on certainly looks like it could streamline some routine tasks: well worth a try.

Comment by Hans
2008-04-11 21:57:33

I’m glad I could helped you in some way! :smile: What is your favorite extension on your side?

 
 
Comment by Marc Subscribed to comments via email
2008-04-16 15:54:16

i personally love, the searchstatus or compete.com plugins for insight about a sites visitors.

other i cant live without are: NoScript, foxmarks, ie tab, informenter, link diagnosis, Google notebook, faviconize tab, web developer, snap links, x-ray and metaTags

for fun i like: Mahalo follow, Me.dium, tweetbar and greasemonkey

Comment by Hans
2008-04-17 08:22:19

Marc,
thanks for your comment and thoughts about these plugins! I also appreciate that you share your favorites! :smile:

I also took at look at your blog and I’m very impressed by the professionalism! :wink: Keep up the good work!

 
 
Comment by Shawn K
2008-04-20 16:36:28

I checked out Shareaholic once, but it doesn’t go far enough. Instead of going to each place individually, it needs to automate the process, so it’s submitted to Digg/Mixx/Reddit at the same time. I’m looking for ways to speed up the process, which Shareaholic doesn’t do for me.

Comment by Hans
2008-05-14 08:09:42

Shawn,

I count on you to let us know about your research. Hope you’ll find a way to fill you personal need! :wink:

 
 
Comment by Geoserv
2008-05-12 12:13:21

I use the StumbleUpon toolbar and SEO Queake, will need to try a couple of the other ones you have listed.

Comment by Hans
2008-05-14 08:11:52

Geoserv,

I would be very pleased if you share your experiences with those you will try. As a Firefox power user, I’m very interested to read your feedback about them!

Hope to see you around again! :smile:

 
 
Comment by Detox Drink Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-04 03:45:34

useful addons, I’m using SeoQuake, ScrapBook, SearchStatus

Comment by Hans
2008-07-07 10:29:08

Thanks for sharing. Is it possible to have your own opinion on those three? Thanks!

 
 
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