Firefox Plugins You Should Be Using

Posted on February 1st, 2008 in Automation

Ok folks, here are some of Nickycakes’ favorite firefox plugins for doin internet marketing webdesign coding affiliate type stuff.

Search Status - http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
This plugin does a few cool things. It shows you the Google Pagewank and Alexa rank of the current page, and by right clicking on the icon it puts at the bottom of your browser, you can opt to have it highlight no-follow links, which is invaluable on the fly sometimes. Especially useful when doing link building and looking for good places to drop your bombs.

Web Developer - http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Man, when Nickycakes started using this plugin, things changed man…things changed. Want to see detailed information about every form on a page? No prob. Want to look at/clear/whatever cookies for the current page only? No prob. View divs on a page by mousing over them? No prob. Disable images, view meta tags, view javascript, edit the page html, validate pretty much anything, whatever. No prob. This tool is especially useful for writing scraper scripts due to the form display functionality.

Firebug - http://www.getfirebug.com/
Awesome for showing exactly how fast your page is loading and what’s causing it to load slowly, etc. Probably a bunch of other functions the Cakes hasn’t bothered looking at too.

RefControl - http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/
Fake your referer url. Fun for the whole family.

Adsense Notifier - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/500
Saves you a trip to the adsense website.