So I’m thinking it’s time we gave Firefox a little credit. I have been an avid Firefox user for awhile now and recently I have started to take advantage of all its perks.  These perks are not just perks; they’re life savers, also known as Firefox add-ons.  Firefox add-ons let you personalize your web surfing experience, making everything faster, easier and more efficient. Do I sound like a Firefox sales rep yet? No? Good, I’ll continue…

Twitter users can tweet from your sidebar, address bar or a popup, post currently playing songs to Twitter, tweet longer text, shrink urls and more.  I know I’m tired of opening Photoshop and piecing together half images of my screen so I can view a full screenshot.  With Fireshot you can capture a full screenshot and edit, save, mail, print and export the image into another program right in your browser.  Even webmasters can have SEO help right at their fingertips.  Type a keyword in Google, hit the SEOQuake button and a bar appears under every search result showing the site’s PageRank, Google index, links, Alexa Rank, site age, etc.  There are just far too many add-ons to choose, but needless to say I’m loving all them.

Here is a list of great add-ons I use:

• Fireshot – allows you to capture full site screenshots, edit, email, print or export.

• Twitbin – shows your Twitter updates right in your sidebar.  Allows you to tweet, direct message, view @replies and view links.

• FoxyProxy - switches your internet connection across proxy servers.

• ColorZilla- lets you get a color reading from anywhere on your screen and paste it in another  program.

• SEOQuake - allows you to quickly view a site’s PageRank, Google index, Google links, site age, Alexa Rank and more.

• Google Toolbar – this toolbar adds spell check, a Page Rank bar and buttons for the many Google  options.

• Live HTTP headers – this tool shows characteristics of the information requested from an http    request.

• Tampered Data - this tool not only shows the characteristics of an http request, but also allows you to filter out information.

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