Firefox Plugins, My Must Haves

Firefox has a boatload of plugins. As with most open programs that support plugins, some rock and some are a complete waste of time. I’ve got a few that have stayed the test of time, getting installed on all my machines and are missed when I realize they are not there.

Delicious Bookmarks This is usually the first thing that gets installed, not much to say about it. Either you use Delicious or you don’t.

StumbleUpon I don’t do a lot of browsing (stumbling) with StumbleUpon, but I do use it to save things I would rather not clutter up Delicious with. Usually it is just an image or a site that I know I want to hang on to but do not want to be bothered with tagging the link when I save it. The other really nice feature is the thumbnail view of your saved sites. Great for a visual reminder without having to click through to see what the site is.

Shareaholic This is a fairly new addition to my Firefox toolbox. Joani turned me on to this and it comes in quite handy. Basically a super url sharing pluggin, the thing that gets the most traffic from me in it is bitly, but also facebook and twitter once in a while.

Firebug This one adds a whole suite of programming tools into Firefox, pretty much letting you edit or view code live in any web page. There are several addons to the plugin for specific situations like Drupal or additional resources like CodeBurner

ColorZilla An eyedropper plugin, it also adds some bonus features like page zooming.

Aviary I use this just for screen captures which i save locally, however there is a web based component to this as well.  When right clicking in a web page you are given an option to capture the visible portion, a region, or the entire page.

Adblock Plus It is a fairly customizable add blocker. Nuff said.

Not so much anymore – BookBurro I used to really like this plugin, when browsing books on Amazon, it pops a little floater you can expand listing a bunch of other online book sellers and their price on the book you are looking at. This used to be a lot handier, however most of the sellers now already offer books through Amazon. So the lowest price on a used copy of the book is right there. I still check it from time to time, but it just isn’t as useful.