8 Useful Firefox Addons for Bloggers

By Everzor On 20 oct. 2009

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Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is an well-improved web borwser, made for browsing the Internet (obviously). It has been developed by Mozilla Labs., and

earned it’s place in the “web browser war” because of it’s large gamma of addons and extensions, useful for each and every user ;

• Each addon is developed for users, by users ;• It makes the navigation through websites easier

and comfortable ;• Bloggers could take advantage of these addons

for information they may not find out in such an easy way.

• Firefox already passed 1 billion users, which let’s admit… it is something ;

• For me, this browser is the proof that from zero you can reach high rates by working hard and developing for users.

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1. Introducing Echofon

• Echofon was initialy called TwitterFox, the name clearly suggesting it’s usage for Firefox.

• It then evolved and at this moment I don’t have any idea if it’s still a Firefox addon.

• It is one of the best Twitter clients from which I know.

• I use it and I find it very fast.

• In my opinion, the info. is easily received and observed, the replies and direct messages are brought to you while browsing.

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2. Reminder Fox

• As you can observe in the previous slide, I’ve presented you the next addon, The Reminder Fox. It’s utility is easy the observe and I can mention that it is a very helpful addon.

• Reminder Fox helps you take notes of your important activities (meetings, dates, birthdays, projects, to-do lists etc.).

• While browsing, the upcoming activity you’ve marked and not have completed, will be shown to you into a pop-up rectangle, in the low-right corner of your browser.

• It is basicaly impossible for you to miss an activity noted in Reminder Fox.

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3. SeoQuake

• SeoQuake is useful especialy for those interested in websites’ Page Rank, position in the Alexa top, the number of Backlinks coming to that page, the page’s “age” and so on.

• The addons can be easily activated by a simple click, as a small icon of it will be displayed in the lower-right corner of the page.

• No more need to acces those different websites which show you the no. of backlinks coming to your website or for finding out the page rank of it. With SeoQuake it is all just in front of you.

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The displaying of SeoQuake (between the tabs and the bookmarks)

4. ScreenGrab

About ScreenGrab

• ScreenGrab is also useful for bloggers, replacing the old keyboard button known as “Print Screen”, where you can take print screens of the page you are browsing and then editing it with Paint or Photoshop.

• With ScreenGrab all you have to do is to select either the paragraf or the image you wish to save, either the entire page or just the frame.

• You can save the print in .PNG format and in .JPG format. It is necessary to select the type of file you wish to save the print as, and to replace the extension from the end.

• You can print paragrafs, images, website logos, which are flash and cannot be saved, frames, paragrafs, evend the entire 1st page of an website.

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5. Read It Later

Read It Later presentation

• This addon is perfect if you think that you have to much to read on the internet and you don’t have enough time.

• While browsing a web page you can just save it for later reading, by clicking the “V-sign” on the right of the adress-bar (as in the print).

• For me, as a blogger, it’s very useful baecause I need to read a lot. When writing an article I sometimes search for info. On 3 different pages and I need the help of this addon, in order not to open too many tabs.

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6. Greasemonkey

• Greasemonkey is a Firefox addon very useful (as all the others I’ve talked about ) which allows you to add scripts from a very various list.

• I’ve 1st used it while playing TribalWars. Very helpful in the game, although it was quite against the rules .

• You could use it for scripts such as “YouTube downloader” and many others. Between those you are bound the find smth. Useful for you blogging activity.

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7. ColorZilla• ColorZilla doesn’t need any

large description, the usage of it being as obvious as seen in the print. You just simply click the small icon from the lower-left corner of the browser, then you click on the color in the page you wish to find info. about and the panel from the slide appears.

8. Video Download Helper

Video Download Helper - description

• Although obvious, the utility of this addon is big. I always wanted an easy to use YouTube vids. downloader… and I’ve found it.

• As in the previous slide’s included print screen, you can see that in the left side of the adress-bar you have 3 balls. When they are gray and not moving, the page you are browsing doen’t have any file you could download.

• Useful for all web-pages, not just YouTube.

• Supported formats : .mp4, .flv, .mp3 and many others.

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As an ending…

• All the credits for this slide-show belong to EV Interactive ©.

• If you have any questions after viewing this presentation, you can post them at everblogzor@gmail.com or on my Twitter account.

• Thanks to Mozilla Firefox for existing. • Browse safe and always have your seat-belts on.