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Fave Software Roundup – Firefox Plugins

We`ve been having a firefox blitz!

I know,  it’s a resouce hog,  it crashes,  it forgets my passwords…  But it’s still the only browser that is suitable for everyday use,  mainly because of the extensive set of plugins.

We always use the latest beta, 3.1b3, because the javascript engine is so much faster – it has been completely rewritten for 3.1 and is now based on the WebKit engine (other browsers using WebKit are google chrome, arora and midori).

Anyway,  here is a list of our favorite plugins

Interclue

This neat little tool allows you to preview any link before clicking.  It makes a lot of difference to browing – often I will miss out a link because my resource-hungry browser  has become to overloaded to start a new tab.  Now I can preview the page in a popup;  often this saves me from actualy visiting the site if the content does not meet my expectaitions.

Also,  it shows you lots of lovely indormation about the page such as headers and so on.

Lazurus

This is a neat,  unobtrusive plugin.  Yyou see an icon in the status bar and an additional context menu option if you right click inside a form.

What it does is it resurrects lost form content.  So if the browser bombs in the middle of writing your masterpiece on wordpress,  you can reload the page and restore the form content.  Its great for saving passwords too.

IMacros

This plugin allows users to script firefox,  a bit like GreaseMonkey but more advanced.  I havent had time to play with it much but it brings up all sorts of ideas (not all of them white-hat).  I`m going to have a proper look at this when I ger the chance;  it would be nice if I could automate many of the mundane tasks that seem to take so long in firefox.

Ghostery

This one shows web-bug scripts such as google analytics and allows you to see what is running in your browser from a webpage.

SEOQuake

This shows you everything you need to know about keywords,  page rank and SEO of a page.

Wappalyzer

This neat plugin shows you meta-data about the software running on a page such as the server software.  Unfortunately,  this has not been updated for firefox 3.1b3.

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