Firefox is one of the most recognized competitors to Microsoft’s horrible Internet Explorer (IE8) because of it’s vast functionality and quite impressive flexibility. Straight out of the box, Firefox is a stable and useful browser, but with a few plugins and themes you can really customise to look and function as par with your heart’s content.
Similarly to pleasing our eyes or making cool buttons; there are some very useful plugins to help us bloggers improve our blogging skills. Today, I want to showcase 12 Firefox Add-ons that every blogger should have! This is an extension to a previous guest post that had some great Firefox plugins for blogging as well..
Firstly, I want to apologise to all our readers and Alex for my recent yet prolonged absence. I’ve been inactive for about a week due to a series of unfortunate events. However, all is well now and I’m back in the ball-game 
If you aren’t using Firefox already, you can download it here. The latest stable version is compatible with an array of operating systems and languages. You can choose the one that is applicable for you. After downloading and installing it, return back to this post to super-charge your FireFox/Blogging experience!
12 Firefox Add-ons
1) Brief – RSS Reader
Out of the many organised RSS Readers, I find that Brief is the one that stands out. With several nice features such as viewing full articles/headlines or excerpts only, a built-in search function, ability to use keyboard-shortcuts and many more other cool customisations.
2) Read It Later
Read It Later allows you to do exactly that; read it later. When you browsing the internet; either casually or in search of specific information – how many times have you come across something else that is of interest to you? However, you don’t really have the time to diverge your attention – but using this tool; you can easily get back to it.This is a very useful tool for the heavy-stumbler.
3) AutoPa
ger
AutoPager is a simple tool that loads the next page, when you reach the end of your current page. This, as said in the said in the description, is useful when viewing search results on websites such as Google, Yahoo, MSN or anything or search engine. When your near the bottom of the results of one page, AutoPager will automatically load page 2, and so forth.
4) FireShot
FireShot allows you to take screenshots of any website; either of the complete page or a partial-shot. However, this tool also allows you to annotate (make notes) and edit the image in real-time. This makes FireShot superior to most screen-capturing programs because something’s don’t make sense after some time – so chuck in a quick note on the side to help you remember!
5) Remind
erFox
ReminderFox “displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s” – what else can be said?
The reason why this tool is on this list is because of its simplicity. It’s a simple program that notifies users of previously added dates/events.
6) Headup
Headup has several key uses but one of the more significant purposes of this tool is the ability to enhance Google Search Results. According to many reviews, and personal experiences – Headup retrieves more targeted results than when running a search on the conventional Google SE.
7) Instablogs Submitter
Instablogs Submitter, which plays on the word “instant”, allows you to submit any website/link/image/anything in fact you find that you might think is newsworthy.
It’s like a Digg or giving something a Stumble but just easier; no logging and all – just Highlight, Right Click and Submit!
SkewzBar
In the blogosphere – your personal touch to content goes a long way. However, it also has a major down-side too; because your content can get TOO biased; especially on factual posts (doesn’t include personal opinions, stories and/or creative pieces). So, rooting from this comes a community called the Skewz that rates content for its “bias-ness”. You can check how biased is the content your reader is rated by the Skewz community. Pretty cool, IMO.
9) Feedly
Feedly allows you to transform your homepage in a magazine-like page, where you can place different excerpts from different sources such as your Twitter profile, Google Reader, Frienfeed, Delicious and YouTube. Its a RSS-dependent tool, and most websites do offer RSS subscription – even Blogussion 
10) WordPress Helper
New to Wordpress.com? This Firefox addon provides a bunch of very useful tools and help to maximise the functionality of your Wordpress.com blog! Not only for beginners but anyone can use this tool to identify if the page you are viewing is of Wordpress-based – sometime’s the custom themes can be so good; you won’t even know it’s Wordpress!
11) Resizeable Textarea
Ever come across a text-area that you just don’t have enough space to write in? Sure they expand with the “scroller” but sometimes, it can get really annoying. If you can’t see what you typed 2 lines ago – then the web-developer behind that page is pretty.. ignorant to be honest. Well at least small text-areas are a worry of the past.
12) Update Scanner
Even though RSS Subscription is a recognised feature of modern-day websites; not all of them offer it. Personally; it is pretty sad because a form of subscription is almost compulsory for a web-master’s success. Having said that; there are still many websites out there without any subscription services available. If you know of such a site and want to still subscribe to its updates; this tool will save you the trouble.
There WE GO! These are just some of the plugins avaible for Firefox – you can find many more over at Mozzilla’s Addon Showcase, specifically the Blogging Category. Do you use any other Firefox plugins for blogging? Not only Firefox, there are plugins for other browsers too – share them if you please in the comments below
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Hey Janith,
A double thumbs up post but guess what, FireFox lags like hell on my computer. Had to settle with Safari instead.
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Hey YingHang,
Thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment
Firefox is more memory-intensive that most browsers and there’s no denial there. You can actually speed it up quite a few ways; I might cover that in another post soon. I’ll see what I can do with it.
Hey Janith, thanks for sharing your ultimate Firefox addon artillery. I am a huge FF user and fan, I have lots of addons I find useful for day to day work, will definitely add these addons you enumerated here. Thanks mate!
No worries man, glad you find them useful. These are just some of the plugins found in just ONE category over at the FireFox Addon website; there’s just so many.
Some good items on the list, although I wouldn’t agree that all of those…skewz for example…are “must have.”
None of these are “must have” but they are useful IMO. Most of these aren’t absolutely vital as you’ve said but they can so easily add a whole new dimension to your blogging experience
Thanks for the follow up post of “Firefox Makes Blogging Easier”, from where I managed to install a hell lot of helper addons to enhance my blogging experience. I find headup an extremely useful plugin, but will need time to test all others.
Great post, once again
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I think I am going to look through the list as well. But my Firefox is already really slow, so I will have to budget. :/
Headup is a very useful tool indeed, it has many useful features within it. I really like their “enhanced Search Results” because they’ve actually returned some very informative sites and delivered the content I was specifically searching for
Thank you for the appraisal Richael, appreciate it dearly
its a great collection.These tools really help me a lot for blogging
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#2 has the same link to the #1 plugin. Thanks to this list, I’ve installed #9 and #2
Should make my life alittle easier since I’m news-aholic 
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Thanks Abdul, I’ve changed to point to the right URL. That’s just carelessness on my part
PS: #9 Feedly is awesome; really brings all your news sources together.
No problem; and yeah #9 is brilliant, I’m setting it up right now too. I made a category with blogs in the same niche as mine so that way I can comment on new blog posts to get a link-back, and of-course stay up to date with the industry without having to spend endless hours browsing
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Very nice list, actually these add ons should save you more time, thanks
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Thanks for the great list.
I find Read It Later is awesome. I usually copy the url and paste it in a text file so that I can read them later. But it’s so uncomfortable.
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Nice list. Testing Instablogs now
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When I just started browsing net, I’m used to use firefox. And I still use it like the best browser that I’ve ever use.
I just need some tips and trick to make it faster and faster
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Great set of tool, thanks for sharing.
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