If you’ve ever been frustrated with trying to remember passwords for hundreds of websites, across multiple web browsers and multiple computers…there’s finally a bulletproof solution.

LastPass is a kickass free browser plugin that allows you to save web account information (username/passwords) and retrieve them from any computer.  All you ever need to remember going forward is your LastPass password, hence the name “last pass”.

Why does it “own”, you ask?

• Works on multiple platforms:  Windows, Linux, Mac
• Works with every browser
• Way more secure than storing passwords on your local PC using the embedded password manager that comes with IE, FireFox, Chrome, etc.
• Super easy to use!
• Also comes with auto-form population
• If you’re on vacation or using someone else’s computer, you can retrieve your passwords…such a time saver
• Auto-generates secure passwords, so you can start using crazy complicated and unique passwords for every new site rather than using the same password repeatedly like most people currently do

Check it out! I’ve recommended LastPass to a handful of close friends already and they’ve been very impressed, so I’m confident you will be too.  It’s not often that a free application comes along that is genius and something you soon wonder how you ever lived without.

Session Manager

• Holy shit is this ever a MUST HAVE Add-On for everyone
• Allows you to save one or more windows (containing multiple tabs) as a “Session”
• Tracks the state of your windows and tabs if FF crashes
• Keeps a history of all closed windows, in case you accidentally close one (I do this quite often)

IE Tab

• Allows you to embed an instance of Internet Explorer inside of a FF tab
• Super handy for viewing how your site would look in IE without having to open the app
• I actually use this mostly for keeping two Gmail sessions active: personal email in an IE Tab, work email in a normal FF tab

Live PageRank

• Displays the Google PageRank for the active URL
• Useful when you’re busy worrying about SEO and backlinks and all that fun stuff

SEO for FireFox

• Tons of functionality in this bad-boy
• I primarily use it when looking at Google search results to get metrics for each result such as PR, Google Cache Date, Traffic Value, # Diggs, # Stumbles, Twitter Rank, and various other details.
• One-click easy enable/disable in the FF *system tray* (whatever the heck that’s actually called?)

NoDoFollow

• If you enable this Add-on, when you’re browsing webpages, it will highlight hyperlinks in different colors to indicate the dofollow / nofollow status
• Definitely useful when promoting your site on directories, blogs, forums, etc.

Shareaholic

• Adds a button in FF near the address bar
• Makes it very easy to share sites with your favorite Web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and email services.
• Works with over 60 services such as StumbleUpon, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader,…

SortPlaces

• Allows you to easily sort your bookmarks
• I wonder why the heck FF makes it so difficult to search ALL folders and bookmarks alphabetically?

That’s it!

If anyone has others that I missed and likely don’t know about – please leave a Comment!