Another 21 Firefox Add-Ons to Make You a Power User
A month since the first installment of 21 Must-Have Firefox Add-Ons, I needed to include a few new add-ons that were left off the original list. Also, some readers told me about some new ones that I had never heard of.
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- I should have included this one in the last post, but here it is not at the top. This is an essential collection of tools for web developers.
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- Bypass compulsory web registration via Firefox?s right-click context menu. Gets you past some of the annoying sites that just want your email address to see content.
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- A graphical view of your downloads in the status bar. Also includes the download speed and remaining time.
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- Awesome add-on that allows you debug your JavaScript, CSS, and HTML live on the page. The CSS inspector feature is great for finding those troublesome div tags.
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- Backup your entire browser settings, history, form data, and extensions at regular intervals.
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- This add-on syncs your bookmarks across your browser on multiple machines. Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks from any computer.
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- Popular add-on that sits inside of your browser. Display track information, controls and time line in a toolbar or your status bar. FoxyTunes integrates with all the popular media players like iTunes, Windows Media Player, and WinAmp.
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- Integrate your Google Calendar into your browser. Receive alerts at the bottom right of your window before events and see the days events are a few of the features.
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- Uses the Google translation service to translate words when you right-click on them. Handy for reading foreign sites that link to you.
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- Pretty self-explanitory, but very functional when browsing for the clip art or to see finer details in images.
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- Highlight and address and Map+ displays a map of the location by using Yahoo’s mapping service.
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- Grab the entire page or just a visible portion and save it as an image. Great for capturing screenshots to send to tech support or friends. They also offer a Pro version.
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- Persist a tab that your can not accidentally close. This add-on also remains between sessions. Great for when you are making changes to pages as you change the code.
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- Nice and compact RSS / XML feed reader which resides in your sidebar. I was one of the first add-ons I installed when I first got Firefox.
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- Save snippets of web pages as you browse and organize them like bookmarks.
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- Ever have multiple tabs open and Firefox takes a dump? With this add on, you can will be prompted if you would like to restore your previous sessions or start new when you open your browser again.
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- Erase all aspects of your browsing with this essential add-on. Similar to the Safari browser’s “Private Browsing” feature.
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- Protect your idenity with this add-on by easily changing your proxy information.
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- Great add-on that puts a graphical icon at the end of a link denoting what the target is. I just started using this one and I totally recommend it.
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I used to use Session Manager but FF 2.0 integrated it. under settings>Main>When Firefox Starts:>Show my Windows and tabs from last time.
that opens all of the pages, and if FF crashes it gives you the option to open them all again or start from scratch. so if you get to a page that has a javascript that crashes FF then you can start from scratch.
web developer is awesomeness.
A couple of these appear to be dead. Of course they were the ones that I wanted.
I also like this little tool called SearchStatus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321
This addons are excellent