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Us bloggers are a busy lot and it can be difficult to find enough time to do everything. That’s where this article comes in. These 25 Firefox plugins will increase your productivity, and make you a better blogger:
1. ScribeFire
ScribeFire is a blog editor that allows you to easily post to your blog and has many features.
2. MorningCoffee
If you routinely visit several blogs or websites as soon as you wake up (like check your stats or AdSense earnings), then this plugin is for you. It basically lets you open websites in tabs that are a part of your everyday ritual, in one click. This extension also lets you organize websites by day, which is handy if you follow a different routine on Sunday, than, say, Tuesday.
3. Read It Later
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
4. All-in-One Sidebar
The All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It let’s you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, or even the source code of websites in the sidebar.
5. StumbleUpon Toolbar
Channel-surf the Internet with the StumbleUpon Toolbar. StumbleUpon discover websites based on your interests, learns what you like, and brings you more. Bloggers can also use it for promoting their blog.
6. Delicious Bookmarks
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service. It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
7. Shareaholic
Social networking and link sharing addicts rejoice, Shareaholic allows you to quickly share, bookmark, and email web pages across many web 2.0 social networking and bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicios, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Mixx and many others without cluttering up your browser with multiple toolbars and buttons.
8. MeasureIt
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a web page. Now you won’t have to paste images in Photoshop or a any other photo editing program to find its height or width.
9. ReminderFox
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and To-Do’s. It makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications. Very useful for bloggers and freelancers alike as it’ll enable you to set deadlines and reminders for writing posts, paying your bills, important events etc.
10. SeoQuake
SeoQuake helps you to better optimize your blog for search engines. It shows detailed information about your competitors, such as their PageRank, the number of pages of their blog indexed in Google, AlexaRank, WhoIs info, and many more similar SEO parameters. Using this data you can know what you can do clinch that top spot for a keyword. The great thing about SeoQuake, that’s missing from other SEO plugins like SEO for Firefox, is that you can save the data to a .csv or a text file for later reference.
11. ScrapBook
ScrapBook helps you to save web pages and organize your collection. Very useful when you’re researching stuff for your next link bait or resource post.
12. One-Click Installer for WP
The One-Click Installer plugin allows you to install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click. Now you won’t have to first download your favorite plugin and then FTP it to your blog.
PS: This plugin requires that you have installed and enabled the One Click WordPress plugin.
13. SearchStatus
SearchStatus displays the Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, and Compete Ranking anywhere in your browser. It also enables you to quickly analyze keyword density, highlight no-follow links on the page, and more. Very handy for all the bloggers and the SEO people out there.
14. WiseStamp
WiseStamp enables you to easily customize & add personalized HTML email signatures on any webmail service (GMail, Yahoo!, AOL, and HotMail). You can see a few examples of the signatures it can make in the above image.
15. FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more…
16. FoxyTunes
Do you listen to music while blogging or surfing the web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios, and much more with a click right from your browser.
17. Download Statusbar
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar without the download window getting in the way of web browsing. If you’re an avid downloader then this plugin will certainly boost your productivity.
18. ColorZilla
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color, and paste it into another program. You can zoom the page you are viewing and measure the distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more… Very nifty plugin if you ask me.
19. AdSense Notifier
AdSense Notifier displays your AdSense earnings on the statusbar. A huge productivity booster and time saver if you’re addicted to checking your AdSense stats every 9 seconds.
20. FireShot
FireShot allows you to take screenshots of web pages. Unlike other Firefox plugin though, this one provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text and graphical annotations. FireShot lets you capture the entire web page or only the visible part of the web page. This plugin is very useful for bloggers who don’t have a premium screenshot taking utility and editor like SnagIt
21. IE Tab
This is a great tool for bloggers as you can easily see how your blog will be displayed in IE, within Firefox. Now you won’t have to open Internet Explorer ever again! This plugin is also useful when you want to open IE specific websites such as Windows Update.
22. Zemanta
Zemanta inserts a box in your right hand sidebar in the WordPress write panel and it enables you to paste images and links in your post related to your content with a single click. Once you’ve written about 300 characters, it automatically adds related images and articles in the right sidebar. You can easily insert the images you like by clicking on them. The images are creative commons. Click on the above image to get a glimpse of what it can do.
Very cool plugin. It also supports LiveJournal, Blogger and WordPress.com.
23. CoComment
CoComment allows you to keep track of your comments across any blog. Very helpful if you subscribe to a lot of comment feeds or if you comment a lot.
PS: You’ll first have to register at CoComment before you can use this plugin.
24. Split Browser
This splits the the content area of the browser window as you like. It’ll save you a lot of time if you research and write your post simultaneously.
25. Rank Checker
Using Rank Checker you can check where your blog ranks in the search engines for a particular keyword.
