Firefox extensions that I can’t live without
Here’s a glimpse behind the curtain at some Firefox extensions that rock my world. A lot of these are already very popular, so please bear with me if you’ve already heard of them, but some of my newer readers are also new bloggers, and they may love to hear about some of these. You can investigate and download each one by clicking on the link I’ve given.
ScribeFire is a browser based blog editor. I use ScribeFire as a draft folder to keep articles I’m still researching or writing, and I can post finished articles directly to my Wordpress blog, as well as assign my finished posts to categories.
You can use Copy Plain Text to add text to your clipboard without any extra formatting, like bold face or font sizes.
This extension copies a link directly into the clipboard, either as plain text or with the link location attached. You can then paste it into other applications.
I hate when I’m downloading something and the Firefox download manager pops up right in the middle of whatever I’m doing. This extension shows me my downloads in an unobtrusive status bar on the bottom of the screen.
Session Manager can save and restore your Firefox browser windows and tabs, as well as let you reopen windows or tabs that you accidentally closed. This is especially useful to have in case your browser crashes… you can restore your browsing session when you reopen Firefox!
Here’s a light weight FTP that you can use directly from your browser window… perfect for uploading images and small files while you’re surfing!
The StumbleUpon toolbar lets you “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” sites that you surf, as well as Stumble around on your own. You’ve got to have an account at StumbleUpon to use this toolbar, but most of my readers probably already have it. I only listed it because I love having the toolbar readily available, and I use it every day.
The Screengrab extension saves webpages as images, which you can then crop down in an image editor to use for your own purpose.
The Signature extension will store and insert snippets of text that you frequently use. I use it for HTML code bits and links that I frequently include in my writing.
Leechblock lets you “graylist” websites that might distract you when you’re trying to be productive. It will block access to the sites that you specify for certain times of the day so that you can get more work done. Sites on the “graylist” are available again when you deactivate Leechblock or after the time expires that you’ve programmed it for.
Link alert changes your cursor to indicate the target of a particular link… a small image will appear by the cursor for PDF files, Mp3’s, email links, Excel or Word docs, zip files, and lots of others.
BlogRovr is great! You can make a list of blogs you like, and while you’re browsing, Rovr will fetch and display previews of posts from your favorite blogs that link to what you’re currently browsing.
Do you have any tips about extensions that you’d like to add? Leave them in the comments!
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Chris Bloczynski dot Com is a blog about entrepreneurship and internet marketing. It's targeted towards ebusiness owners and bloggers, with an emphasis on principles such as attitude, mentorship, tools to streamline your business, and tactics for marketing and growth.
Chris, thanks for writing about BlogRovR. We’re glad you’re finding it useful. We love hearing about people from diverse fields who are getting value out of monitoring the conversation of the blogosphere as they browse. We’re up to 120,000 users already thanks to folks like you, mostly.
BTW, If you want your readers to be able to see what you’ve written wherever they browse something you’ve blogged on, you can add our chiclet to your page. Get it at the bottom of your rovr homepage.
Again, thanks for the write-up.
Marc Meyer,
CEO, Activeweave, BlogRovR
Thanks for this article Chris. I found some I didn’t know about in it. The signature one sounds really good. You get awfully tired of writing the same things over and over.
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