FireFox Plugins

If you needed any more reason to switch to FireFox, let me point you to an excellent article by Quinn Norton. In “The Firefox Hacks You Must Have”, he refers to some excellent plugins which can prove to be quite useful.

Here is the link:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69781,00.html

Some excerpts I found nice:

“allows you to download little snippets of code that act as the software equivalent of small consumer electronics devices, only they are free”.

Yes I like free stuff.

“DownThemAll is a bulk downloader that allows you to copy everything you want from a website at once. Whether you need to grab handfuls of thumbnails from a picture album or a page full of interesting MP3s, this tiny app gets them all with a single click.”

Lovely !!!

“With this baby installed, you just right-click over virtually any popular website's login form, and the plug-in will tap BugMeNot, find a usable name and password donated by an existing user, and log you in.”

The BugMeNot extension.

Over all there are quite a few plugins available and you can just go on downloading till either the Brower or the Harddisk crashes.

Apart from these I found some other extensions which will be usefull to specefic groups of users

SearchStatus
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
A toolbar extension designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers. It lets you view a site’s Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place.

View Rendered Source Chart

http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html

• Creates a Colorful Chart of a Webpage's Rendered Source Code
• Charts Dynamically Generated HTML and Static HTML in Concert
• Great Visual Aid tool for Learning Environments

Generally a great plugin for us developers.

I will add more as I come across..