30+ Browser Add-Ons

Sometimes daily routines feels very pressing. Today remembering passwords has become almost a full time occupation. But whatever you are – webmaster or Internet marketer – there are ways to handle your tasks more effectively with the help of some browser tools you can download for free. You can transform your browser to an unpaid and effective home office helper.

There are practical add-ons both for Internet Explorer and Firefox, but as you can see, the list of Firefox add-ons is far more extensive than for Internet Explorer because of the simple reason that Firefox has a lot more extensions to choose from. Surely Internet Explorer will have more tools in the close future, but at the moment the list seems poor compared against Firefox.

Wikipedia: An add-on consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application to provide a certain, usually very specific, function “on demand”.

We use Firefox on Cashrevelations.com because of the huge flexibility, and we recommend also others to download and discover Firefox. It will make your work easier and you will have free access to a library with more than 5000 extras that let you customize Firefox to meet your needs. Try Firefox for free HERE.

This is a list of 30+ (mostly Firefox but also Internet Explorer) browser add-ons that will help you to make your work a bit easier and much more effective. They will be a great addition to your virtual home office.

Socialize and Bookmark

Social networks have become more and more important for Internet entrepreneurs for many reasons. They are an excellent platform to present whatever you have to offer and if you are looking for traffic to your site they provide you with targeted quality hits.

With numbers like 300,000,000 registered users for Facebook and 263,920,102 registered users for MySpace it is easy to understand why you should be present there if you are Internet entrepreneur. You can find more about Social Networks HERE.

Bookmarking and Sharing Tools

1. Yoono – Socialize Your Browser
Yoono is an easy to use sidebar that helps you to simplify by connecting you to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and more. Share links, images and video from the page you’re viewing across all your networks simultaneously – also includes a Discovery widget that helps you discover great new websites, products, and videos and then easily share them with your friends. Fits also to Internet Explorer 8.

2. Friendbar – The Twitter and Facebook Toolbar
Friendbar makes it easier to keep in touch with friends on Facebook and Twitter. It displays a running stream of text and photo updates from Facebook and Twitter right on the toolbar, and allows you to post updates, retweet, direct messages, and replies from the toolbar itself.

3. Facebook Toolbar
The Search Box allows you to search Facebook no matter where you are, icons tell you how many new pokes, friend requests, messages, event and group invitations you have. Share button lets you share the page that you are currently browsing by sending it to friends or posting it to your profile and you can open the Facebook friends sidebar and check out your friends’ statuses, along with convenient links for interacting with them.

4. Echofon
Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter. Syncs with iPhone. Adds a tiny status bar icon that notifies you when your friends post tweets. You can also view updates in a timeline and post your own tweets.

Wikipedia; Virtual communities, e-communities or online communities, are used for a variety of social and professional groups interacting via the Internet.

5. Shareaholic for Firefox 1.9
Shareaholic is a lightweight and easy to use add-on for Firefox with a minimal browser footprint. Shareaholic makes it very simple to quickly and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail any web page via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging and e-mail services. Fits also to Internet Explorer 8.

6. Xmarks
Xmarks is a free add-on for your browser that synchronizes and backs up your bookmarks across multiple computers. Xmarks helps you find the best sites on the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking. Fits also to Internet Explorer 8.

7. OnlyWire – Social Networking Auto-Submitter
OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to over 20 social networking sites with a single button click. Assists users by providing the tools and back-end processing needed to perform submissions quickly and seamlessly. This is an experimental add-on.

Home Office & Internet Entrepreneur

Internet is important for the home office regardless of what type of business you might engage yourself in, and mostly the working day consists of repetitious tasks. A boring and monotone daily routine. This is a collection of Firefox add-ons that are suitable to any type of entrepreneur and they will help you to speed up those tedious everyday routines.

Password Managers and Download Tools

8. iMacros for Firefox
Designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. You can use it like a form filler and password manager and you can also automate the download of images, files, or entire pages. Web professionals can use iMacros for testing of web applications. For more usage ideas visit iMacros for Firefox.

9. LastPass Password Manager 1.51.4
Password manager and Form Filler that make your web browsing easier and more secure.
LastPass supports IE and Firefox as Plugins and allows you to import from every major password storage vendor and export too, capture passwords that other managers won’t including many AJAX forms. LastPass for Internet Explorer.

Wikipedia; A password manager is software that helps a user organize passwords. The software has a local database or files that holds the encrypted password data.

10. GrabPro 1.0.0
Grab Pro is a special tool for browsers to break anti-leeching technology, which is used by social media sites like YouTube. Downloads social video and music easily. Grab Pro has a simple and clear user interface and is micro-sized and resource-friendly. This Firefox add-on is listed as an experimental add-on.

11. Video DownloadHelper 4.6.2
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. When the add-on detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by clicking an item. if you go to a YouTube page, you’ll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, DreamHost and others.

12. DownThemAll! 1.1.6
Features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria.

Mailing and Language Tools

13. WebMail Notifier 1.4.7
WebMail Notifier checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails.
You can use multiple accounts in a same host. Supports: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Daum, Naver, Empas, Nate and more.

14. WiseStamp – Email signature
Empower your webmail signatures in Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.
WiseStamp includes many exciting and improved webmail signature fetchers.

15. gTranslate 0.5.1
With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

16. ImTranslator 3.2.8
ImTranslator includes Online Translator in 1640 language combinations. With ImTranslator you can enter multilingual text, check it for correctness, adjust unreadable messages, translate in different languages, look up words, print results and send email.

17. FoxLingo 2.4.2
Translate web pages and text, learn languages, auto translate, and much more. Supports 53 languages and 36 free online translators. Contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, text-to-speech engines, language identification, and language search features.

Developer Tools

Ordinary webmaster or advanced developer, this collection of Firefox add-ons will speed up your work with different online projects – troubleshoot, edit, and debug web projects without ever clicking away from Firefox.

Firebug and Firebug Extensions

18. Firebug 1.4.1
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

19. CodeBurner for Firebug 1.2
CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS. The extension’s core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.

20. YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. Also summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis.

21. Firefinder for Firebug 0.91
Find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression. You can also auto-select elements when hovering or via the context menu. View the results or click Inspect to go to the corresponding element in Firebug’s HTML tab.

Validation and Clean Up

22. Html validator 0.8.5.8
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

23. CSS validator 3.0.0
Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab.

Wikipedia; The Markup Validation Service by the World Wide Web Consortium allows users to check HTML documents for conformance to HTML or XHTML standards.

24. Dust-Me Selectors 2.2
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used.

Miscellaneous Webmaster Tools

25. FireFTP
A secure cross-platform FTP client for Firefox which provides access to FTP servers. Along with transferring your files efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, search and filtering, SFTP, SSL encryption, integrity checks, remote editing and much more.

26. Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a menu of options for debugging and inspecting Web pages, and a toolbar with various web developer tools. The extension is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support.

27. JavaScript Debugger
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.

28. FireShot 0.78
Create screenshots of web pages, entirely or just visible part. Provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.

29. Capture Fox 0.6.0
Capture Fox Movie is a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer. It records your screen frame by frame. You can also record your voice.

Internet Explorer 8

Apart from the developer tools included with Internet Explorer 8, we couldn’t find so many more suitable home office tools for Internet Explorer in the add-ons directory, but some we found anyway. We suggest you check the Internet Explorer Add-ons Gallery regularly.

Observe; some of the Firefox add-ons above are also available for Internet Explorer.

If you want to access the developer tools in Internet Explorer 8, press F12 or click the ‘Developer Tools’ entry in the Tools menu. For an introduction to Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools go HERE.

Translate and Search

30. Google Transtale
View selected content in other languages with this Accelerator.

31. Bing Translator
Bing Translator is a free online language translation service for text and web pages. Easily translate any text on any page with this Accelerator.

32. MSDN Search
Searches for the selected text in the Microsoft Developer Network portal. Allows you to quickly find information on technologies, language constructors, and .NET or Windows libraries that you encounter while browsing the Web.

Socialize and Sharing Tools

33. MyStartSocialToolbar
With MyStartSocialToolbar’s search box you can search Facebook to find your Facebook friends. Additionally, the toolbar provides you with key access to Facebook photos, Facebook groups, Facebook events and Facebook friends. You can also search the Web at any time with a powerful Web search powered by the Yahoo search engine.

34. ShareThis
Share content to contacts from a variety of address books, including GMail, Yahoo!, MSN, Outlook, AIM and more using multiple services such as email, instant messenger, Facebook, Digg, Twitter as well as many others.

35. BizForm Bar
Password manager and form filler. Your login user-names, passwords and form information are encrypted with state-of-the art encryption. Password and form data can safely be exported to other computers or USB keys.

Miscellaneous Developer Tools

36. SitePoint Reference Lookup
Look up HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in the SitePoint Reference. Check the syntax of an element, attribute, property or method, read user comments, experiment with live CSS demos, and more. Accelerator Home Page.

37. HttpWatch Basic Edition
HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with IE and Firefox to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window. Features ability to generate request-level time charts, decryption of HTTPS traffic, inspects and tweaks your secure SSL-based connections and more.

Of course you understand that you shouldn’t install too many or all the add-ons from the list. A good strategy would be to find out what takes the most time and what tasks feel most complicated and choose add-ons according to that.

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