13 Firefox 2 Add-ons I Use for Domaining and Trendwatching
Just in time for Firefox 3 I bring you the best add-ons for Firefox 2! There is a reason for this, of course. I’m a big fan of Firefox. You just can’t beat the speed and customization. Sure, it does have flaws, but the benefits far outweigh those.
I know you have read a dozen of these lists thus far… but something tells me you will find one or two on my list that you’ve never heard of.
I use quite a few add-ons for my trendwatching and domaining (Click on the photo for a zoomed view of my browser). I can’t simply make the jump to FF3 until some of my favorite add-ons are made compatible with the new version. That got me thinking: perhaps I should share what I hold so dearly. So, here is a list of Firefox 2 add-ons that I use:
- Torrent Finder Toolbar - Simply type in what you are looking for in the toolbar and it will search oodles of torrent sites.
- Smart Bookmarks Toolbar - My favorite add-on. With Firefox 2 you can drop bookmarks onto a toolbar. This add-on will only show your bookmarks’ icons; and you can even shrink those. I have 60+ bookmarks on my Firefox and this makes it easily navigable… some sites just need to get favicons (It’s driving me crazy! Yes, I’m talking to you SimplyGeo.com, NameBio.com, DNCleaner.com, Freshdrop.net, GeoDomainer.com!). Unfortunately you can’t assign your own icons to your bookmarks.
- Tab Mix Plus - Allows you to heavily customize your tabs.
- Smart PageRank Toolbar - The live Pagerank and Alexa stop working after a while. But I really like the “Valuate” button. Clicking on that will get you a registered date, expiry, # backlinks, # indexed pages and internet archive link. There is also an appraisal tool, but it’s as useless as all the others.
- SEOpen - Toolbar that has backlinks and indexed pages for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Alexa. Also has a link analyzer and keyword density tool.
- Screengrab - Captures screenshots. Allows you to customize the size of the screenshot.
- Right Click Link - Highlight a word or words, then right click it and select open. This ‘cleans’ the selection by taking out the spaces, opens it in a new tab and adds a .com at the end. I use this all the time to check instant availability of keywords I see in articles.
- Restarter - Restarts Firefox. This is valuable if you use Firefox v2; I don’t know if v3 needs it. This comes in handy if Firefox starts eating too much memory and needs a restart, allowing you to keep all your tabs on the restart.
- PDF Download - Couple this with PDF-XChange and you will stop hating PDFs.
- No Script - A blocker of everything. For sites I visit all the time I give permanent permission. For sites I’ll visit once I’ll give temporary permission that will expire when I leave. Also blocks popups and hijackings.
- FasterFox - Makes the browser faster. This may be outdated now.
- Delicious - Adds Delicious and a toolbar that shows your last 10 or so Delicious bookmarks.
- Download Statusbar - Uses the statusbar as a download manager
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Great list. I use some of the tools you listed. I always enjoy seeing screenshots of other peoples firefox setup (especially annotated ones!)
FYI, I’m not sure how you currently compose and publish your blog posts, but you may want to check out the ScribeFire add-on. Makes maintaining several blogs a breeze.
http://www.scribefire.com
Hi Jamie. Being new to this, I just use WP’s interface. I’ll download this and give it a shot, thanks.