Some different Firefox extensions
by Jim on Mar.21, 2008, under Firefox, Internets
I thought I’d spend some time searching the vast range of extensions available for Firefox, looking for some potentially great extensions that you don’t hear much about. There are many extensions out there just waiting to be discovered. Many of which can be extremely beneficial for some, but will never be everyones cup of tea.
Most people complain about Firefox 2’s extreme use of memory, Cache Status provides a handy little fix. Providing cache information and the ability to manually clear the cache. I know this is possible from within the about:config menu, but why bother when Cache Status can free up memory for you?
There are plenty of good videos on Youtube, Megatube, Dailymotion, and all those other video streaming sites. Now there are three problems with these sites: you have to be online to view them, the servers can get hit pretty badly causing really slow streaming, and finally videos can often get removed from the sites. Why bother with any of these problems again, when you could just download the video. Many sites provide this functionality, but why not just use this handy extension instead?
Snap shots of websites is one of the features Ask.com is toting as one of their main features that Google does not have. Well why bother with Ask anymore, when you could go back to good old Google and use this extension to get the Snap Shots for you?
That’s it for now, expect another 3 good extensions in the future.
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March 25th, 2008 on 12:31 pm
Another browser add-on you might like is Web of Trust. WOT is a tool for website reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites. The ratings are based on standards of trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. A tiny traffic light style icon appears next to the link after you search on Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, etc, so it alerts you about that site.
What I like about it is that it’s people-driven, so I benefit from other people’s experience and knowledge. WOT has information on 17.5 million websites, and is continually growing and improving. Version 3 is slated to come out soon with more features. It’s a free download and it works with IE and Firefox.
http://www.mywot.com
June 18th, 2008 on 9:42 am
I must admit, I’m a Firefox nut. Mainly for the ‘add-on’ extensions that make life a little easier when searching online.
One I can highly recommend, and will be of interest if you have your own website or blog, is the SEOQuake extension. Just do a search for it.
It’s great for research, finding out about your competitors and helps if you’d like to attract more visitors to your site.