Ok sorry this post has been done a billion times before, though someone was asking me what extensions I have so I thought I’d do a quick post. Some of them are very obvious that I think most SEOs use.
- British English Dictionary – Not really a proper Extension I guess but my spelling is awful and I need all the help I can get and I am English and I hate American spelling.
- FlagFox – Not seen this one mentioned very much. It is a nice little tool showing the flag of the physical location of the server. It is useful for quickly identifying a problem when a client with a .com and US server moans about crap UK rankings.
- FoxMarks Synchronizer – Social bookmarking is ok for bookmarking some things, but I tend to bookmark all sorts of crap and I work on 3+ computers so having access to all my bookmarks on each computer is quite handy.
- GreaseMonkey – I don’t actually use this that much, I have some of Joost de Valk’s Scripts installed and that’s it. Still it is handy to have there. I just need to find some more useful scripts.
- NoScript Plus – This is more for security purposes though I find it quite useful for seeing what sites are un-usable without JavaScript, or what sites are using some naughty NoScripts. It is also useful to see just how many JavaScript applications/widgets etc people add to a site. It is not uncommon for me to have to enable 10+ URLs in NoScript for a website to work properly.
- SearchStatus – Nice little plugin that shows PageRank, Alexa and Compete info. I know they are all pretty useless but still, they are still nice to know. You can also use it to find incoming links etc
- SEO for Firefox – Everyone seems to love this one. I don’t personally use it that much as there too many things it displays. I tend to keep it down to Google Cache Date, Age, and Whois.
- SEOpen – I probably use this one the most. There is easy access to loads of functions via a right click. I am always using this to check backlinks, Whois, In Index, HTML Validation etc
- Web Developer – Don’t use it that often but it has loads of functions that are useful. Viewing Source, Validation, Outlining Headings etc
