5 Useful Firefox Extensions You May Not Know About

 

 

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5 Useful Firefox Extensions You May Not Know About

vía GO2WEB20 Blog de Orli Yakuel el 12/07/09

The reason why I don't switch to Chrome Browser completely is its lack of extensions ability, and also because I'm waiting to see what are the next killer features in Firefox, in terms of Tabs & Search functionality. Though I have to admit, I'm getting used to work with Chrome.

Meanwhile, I always in search for extensions that will make our life easier, and lately I have testet some plugins that can come in handy, especially if you work daily on the Internet.


Apart from the fact that Aviary web toolkit is absolutely amazing, their Firefox addon Talon, enables quick screen capture from the browser in a single click. It will perform a screen capture and then open the image instantly in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colors of the image. You can then save it to your desktop, or host it on Aviary. A perfect tool for Bloggers and Designers.

I also suggest that you'll try their newest product - Falcon. A web-based image markup editor.


Israeli-based New Tab King (NTK), gives you a brief analytics dashboard on your web-browsing history each time you open a new tab in FireFox. It provides you with your most visited sites list (where you can filter the list to your favorites only), recently closed tabs, relevant suggested sites, and shortcuts to applications on your desktop. You can configure just about everything there: background image, sites that you don't want to be shown, the number of sites per segment, and many more.


I already wrote about Speedtile in my blog, but since then the service and its Firefox plugin got even better. So now, instead of "right click" in the mouse, you have this big button on your browser that all you really need to do is to click on it to bookmark favorite webpages:

and I'm telling you, I'm a big fan of Delicious, but if you want to get a full picture of your bookmarked sites fast, Speedtile is the best choice for you.


ShiftSpace (Israeli-based), is actually a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. Therefore it provides tools for everyone to create online contexts built in and on top of websites. ShiftSpace users can leave annotations on websites, highlight text on the page, write comments on other people notes, and more.





I've just bumped into Gliider today, so I'm still waiting for an invite, but overall it looks like a very powerful vacation planner. Gliider lets you hold on to all of the interesting stuff you come across when you're researching and planning a trip. Find a cool hotel you don't want to forget about, or save a great restaurant you want to try. No matter what website you're on, just highlight whatever you want with your mouse and drag it into your Gliider. Photos, text, etc.

See more on the Demo below:

 

 

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