Useful Firefox Extensions / Tools

Firefox Extensions

SEM Lead's exclusive list of FireFox tools we love and use regularly. These tools are essential for all of our website marketing campaigns. If there are useful SEO tools missing that you think should be here, please contact us.

• Adsense Notifier - Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.
• ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.
• Copy As HTML Link - Creates an HTML link to the current page using the selected text and copies it (into the clipboard) for pasting into other applications.
• Copy All Urls - Copies and pastes all urls of open tabs inclusive history in structured and well defined form to and from the clipboard.
• Copy Plain Text - Use this extension to copies text without formatting, links or text-link-ads to be copied over as well.
• Download Statusbar - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
• Google Global - Allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations.
• HTML Validator - Shows you pages which are or are not validated and suggests corrections to clear up validation issues.
• Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Allows you to upload photos to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery, all within your browser.
• McAfree Site Advisor - Provides a warning status of sites in Google and Yahoo search results. Also allows you to view the status of any site you're on.
• Oy-Oy Search Engine - It contains just about all the necessary online (and free) tools that are needed for a site and domain check.
• PDF Download - Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside FireFox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
• Screen Grab - Save the entire page as an image, just the visible portion, or the browser window.
• Search Status - View any page's Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place.
• SEO for FireFox - Pulls a ton of marketing data right into the search results to help you analyze how competitive a marketplace is.
• SEOpen - It helps with search engine optimization. It provides many helpful tools at the click of a mouse.
• SeoQuake - Aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites.
• Server Spy - Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (eg. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites.
• Shareaholic - It allows to submit a web page you're viewing to digg, del.icio.us, facebook, google bookmarks, reddit and stumbleupon.
• Show IP - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft.
• Split Browser - This splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases.
• VideoDownloader - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly !
• Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Excellent for viewing/editing CSS files, viewing source code, HTML Validation, and more.
• Word Count - Lets you count the number of words on any web page you are viewing.
• X-Ray Viewer - Lets you view the HTML markup of any page without having to view the source code.
• Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool - See what what a page will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser.