Fantastic FireFox Plugins
I am really getting a kick out of some good FireFox plugins lately. I never expected so many great ideas to be put to use in my web browser. It used to be that most toolbars and plugins for a web browser would simply be to take you to a particular sponsoring web site and maybe offer a couple of things sort of useful such as form-filling and cross-computer bookmarking. These useful FireFox add-ons really make the grade though.
- All-in-One Sidebar: Transforms your sidebar - very nice & adds lots of great options.
- Download Manager Tweak: Allows you to put your downloads into the sidebar and adds some other handy options.
- Firefox Showcase: Adds ability to preview what you have open in your windows and tabs all in one place - view in sidebar or a tab.
- FoxyTunes: Allows you to control your media players (i.e. Winamp, WMP, etc) from your browser’s status bar. All major players supported, allows you to download and use skins, see what tracks are currently playing, support for shortcut keys, there’s even a built-in alarm and sleep timer! That doesn’t even begin to say how cool this is.
- GMarks: Integrates Google Bookmarks into your sidebar or a toolbar. Even has an option for seeing your starred topics in Google Reader.
- Google Reader Notifier: One of my absolute favs - It puts an icon in your status bar that shows the number of new items in your Google Reader account. It pops up a clean little notifier window whenever there are new items found in Google Reader! If you aren’t using Google Reader, its time to start.
- Performancing: A fantastic blogging companion tool. Puts a blogging editor right into firefox. Whats so awesome about it is the way you can keep all of your blogs right in one place and publish to any of them without logging into any of them. It even has a MySpace plugin. If you have more than one blog, this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! (Its what I’m using right now to post this article.)
There are other plugins I use, but they have to do with web development. I may get around to posting about my development plugins some day, but this article is focusing on the average end user.
