Bitchin’ FireFox Add-Ons

Here’s a few of my favorite FireFox Add-Ons, in no particular order:

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!