Five Fire Fox extensions you really cant live without

Since Fire Fox got its face lift from mozilla back in April 2003, the idea of a web browser has dramatically changed. No longer is a web browser just for reading pointless web sites along with the occasional work related article, it’s now a tool that is there to help you “surf” the web faster and more efficiently, Fire Fox had mastered this feat with it’s ever increasing extensions library.

I along with the majority of my colleagues use and love Fire Fox and amongst them the majority have Fire Fox loaded with the extensions that they literally can’t live without!!! It’s always the same old cycle, you browse Fire Fox’s extension library and see what’s new, you try some and realise straight away it’s pointless and then there is the ones that survive, the ones that over time you realise you use more and more every day, so much so that you forget that there not a standard!!

It is because of this that I’m giving my top 5 Fire Fox extensions!!!

1) Sage: Because were all very busy people and generally couldn’t be ar$ed trawling through the 30 odd web site “We Just have to read!!!!” Thanks to sage (among others) we can now have automatic feeds of our favourites blog’s all nice and neatly organized so we can quickly see if there are new/good articles that we should read with out having to go through the massive bookmark list.

2) Web Developer: A web developer’s hammer (meaning a pretty dam necessary tool) allows you to view your website showing all frames, tables, cells etc. That alone would get it to my top 5 list but along with tools for CSS, Images, Cookies this really is amazing!!

3) IE Tab: Unfortunately some web designers for some unknown reason believe that it is ok not to test in browser’s other that Internet Explorer. Even though we shouldn’t have to compensate for other peoples laziness, there is times we must, enter IE tab…. Loads pages in a tab that act’s like Internet Explorer therefore compensating for other people laziness…

4) Google Tool Bar: This does exactly what you’d think it would, Google in a toolbar. Also Loaded with option for automatically filling out forms for you, so saving you writing you address a hundred times a day, or if like the 75% of IT working people you have forgotten how to spell because of F7 Google toolbar comes with a built in spell check, a true life saver!!

5) ViewMyCurrency : No longer do you have to have a tab open with www.xe.com in it all day. No More Copying the price of that book on Amazon over to see how much it’s really going to cost, thanks to ViewMyCurrency the price it there on load, converted to your local currency, saving you precious seconds!!

The ones that I think are pretty cool, but just didn’t make the top 5…….

Mouse Gestures: Like Opera, allows you to navigate your browser using you mouse, i.e. right mouse button and up, opens new tab, right mouse button and left/right gets the previous/next page.

Google Notebook: Because the majority of us don’t have a photographic memory, copy interesting pieces of information and add them directly to a little notebook in fire fox so you never forget….

Reference:
Developer toolbar : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/
View My currency : http://viewmycurrency.wordpress.com/
Google Toolbar http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
IE tab : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
Sage: http://sage.mozdev.org/
Gestures: http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/
Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook/