Ali Hussain, author of Techuse.net shares with you 8 fantastic FireFox plugins to help better your blogging experience. Tools ranging from Editors to in-browser FTP, this article is not to miss if you’re an avid Firefox blogger.
Blogging is a very tough job. You need to do a lot of research, writing and understating. It takes hardship and loyalty to bring your blog to high standards. So, you must know on how to cut short your work using tips and tweaks. These tips and tweaks are like super fuel to your blogging careers.
Speaking of research and writing, most of the bloggers around the world use Mozilla Firefox for blogging activities. I have compiled a few plugins that I use to make my blogging job easier.
Editors Note: If you don’t use Firefox, we suggest you download Firefox now. Not only will this post be useless to you if you don’t have it, but you will never get the satisfaction of seeing what it really means to “surf the web.” without it!
SribFire
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs. And the best part is that is supports almost all kinds of blogging platforms.
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.
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. Also, it has many other options integrated for our use.
Shareaholic
So what do you do after posting a blog post? You promote it, don’t you? Well, this plugins eases your job as 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.
ReminderFox
Tied up in other works? Forgot to pay rent? Didn’t make a blog post? These are tasks you tend to forget when blogging or when you have a busy schedule. 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.
SeoQuake
SEO matters a lot in blogging. Especially when you are commenting or looking for keywords for your blog post. Are you keeping an eye on your competitor? Why not, use SeoQuake as it 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.
FireFTP
Adding images to your blog post? Editing a theme? Or simply uploading new plugins. Now there is no need to open your heavy FTP programms. 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…
IE Tab
Working on a theme? Do you want to check how it may look in the average Internet Explorer? No need of opening the I.E again and again. This plugin may also be useful when you want to open IE specific websites such as Windows Update.
What are your favorite blogging tools for Firefox? Share them below in the comments!
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I like that IETab one.
Thanks for that, that will definitely come in handy!
Have you downloaded it? What do you think? Unfortunately I can;t use it as it doesn’t work on Macs. =/
this is fantastic post.. I am glad I subscribed your blog.
these actually will make my life easier and I will be sure to check it out, I hardly come do the commenting because I am just your faithful reader, but posts like these need to be credited.
thank you.
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This is one post I really needed to read.
I am downloading the ones I need right now.
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Which ones did you end up downloading Farrhad?
The FTP and read it later ones till now.
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Thankyou all for liking the post. I am an avid Firefox user. I hope these plugins help you like they help me
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Great list dude!
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Great post ! Really wanted to know some fire fox addons got it now. Thanks
I’m also a FireFox user, and I’m not going back to Internet Explorer!
I like WordPress because of all the plugins it has that makes is so much better, the same thing goes with FireFox.
If you are a bit more techie on coding like I am, you’ll want to add HTML Validator plugin and Firebug to your arsenal.
Obviously HTML Validator will analyze the page you are surfing in details be it yours or the one of another site, great ways to clean up your code.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
CSS is absolutely great, but sometimes it can really be a pain to know which class has which effect and where it is in your stylesheet, Firebug shows you in real time which part of the code is concerned, amazing!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
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Firefox FTW! I’ve been using IETab for some time now – and before I only opened IE for Windows Update; but now I’m relieved of that IE-pain too! It’s such a great browser overall and I’m sure you agree with me too, Nicholas
I’ve been using FireBug almost since the same day I started using FF but the HTML Validator is something that will come in handy – thanks for the heads up!
I just arrived on this blog that looks very good.
Firefox is a must have for me. It is more than a simple browser because you can tweak it to suit your very own needs.
Some of my favorite addons are:
Pixlr – for screen grabs and image editing.
Twitterbar – post right away from address bar.
SearchStatus – Display the Google, Alexa and Compete rankings for the current page.
Thanks for the recommendations! I’m looking for SeoQuake and FireFTP.
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Twitterbar sounds pretty useful. I may look into that one.
I’ve been playing around with PixIr for almost an hour now! This is pretty fun, a lot like Firefox’s other plugin; PicLens (or was it PicLense?)
Oh yeah! Pixlr works like a breeze I don’t have to open photoshop again and again for fast editing. And PicLens is a funny one too!
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Ah..if only IETab worked on Mac!
Ahhh, Read It Later is something I can really find useful! Thanks for the heads up Ali, I’ve only been using two of the many you’ve mentioned here – but will definitely take a look at the others
great post ali , Read it later plugin would be very useful for me . Going to download it
Thanks
So much to choose, thanks all!
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I want to thank You for this list – I will use 6 of the plugins. I use already Fire FTP and Scribe, what i find very usefull
Maybe sometimes Scribe acts a bit strange, but generally i am ok with that
thanks
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How does Scrib act weird?
I like to use it very much. No hassle of logging in the wp-admin everytime
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Some of the tools you mentioned are indeed great help to bloggers, such as:
* IE Tab – now I do not have to wait for my bulky IE to open and load the pages and in the process, consume a hell lot of bandwidth.
*Read It Later – bookmarking is good, but I occasionally forget to revisit a bookmarked site, due to lack of time wading through the bookmarked sites.
Great post and great writing style
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