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12 Useful and Time-Saving Firefox Extensions for Webmasters

According to a report published by an analytics company, Internet Explorer and Firefox are the most common browsers used by netizens all across the globe. Though, firefox browser may be the second choice for many Internet users yet it is gaining popularity. The add-ons or extension feature of the browser can save lot of time and users enjoy using this feature. One can always find something useful and time saving out of these thousands of extensions available in varies categories.

Today, we are here with a small round-up of essential extensions complied specially for webmasters and bloggers. This post presents 12 Great Firefox Extensions for Webmasters which I hope can come up as a real time saving tool. So, Please have a look and leave your comments. Thanks!

1. SEO Toolbar

The Add-on place a toolbar and shows PageRank, Alexa Rank, Popularity Index Rank for any website you visit. The toolbar includes handy shortcuts to popular PPC Engines, SEO tools and forums, Keyword Research tools, and domain tools. The SEO Toolbar is fully customizable with several different views available. You can change its location easily from the options menu and even move it down on to the statusbar.

2. SEOPen

Just install the extension and get access to google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more with few mouse click. All features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page, or by using the included toolbar.

3. KGen

KGen retrieves every words of a page and lets you know how many time they appears and their weight in the page and their average position in the web page. To open the KGen sidebar : View>Sidebar>KGen. You can also add the KGen button to your toolbars with the toolbar customization tool.

4. Google Global

A very powerful Firefox extension that allows one to see what Google Search results look like from different geographical locations. Users can set unlimited custom “locations” and open them all in new tabs if required for easy comparison.

5. Foxy SEO Tool

Something similar to SEOPen, Foxy SEO Tool is another great firefox extension and an open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook. One can also check a site’s listing in important directories like Dmoz and Yahoo! Directory, buzzing Web 2.0 sites such as Technocrati, Wikipedia, Digg, Delicious and links to useful network functions like Whois, Geotool, Internet Archive, etc.

6. IE Tab

A great firefox extension where you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

7. Shorten URL

A real time saving firefox extension where one can Shorten long URL from context menu or toolbar button with your selected URL shortener and display the result in location bar. Supports more than 100 URL shorteners.

8. FireShot

Most of us are already aware of the recommended firefox extenstion FireShot. FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part).

9. Flagfox

Flagfox is simple and useful firefox extension majorly used to display a flag icon indicating the current webserver’s physical location. It also provides a multitude of tools such as site safety checks, whois, translation, similar sites, validation, URL shortening, and more…

10. PageDiff

Pagediff, a simple page compare application helps one to see HTML-code(text) differences between web pages. It doesn’t take original page source. It takes browser generated DOM compliant view source. It omits Doctype declaration and HTML tags.

11. Domain Availability Search

A very handy for your domain name search. Type in a domain name, and instantly check for availability, from right within your Firefox browser.

12. Firebug

Another cool, powerful and time saving firefox add-on for webmasters, designers and developers. One can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page while browsing.

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