My top 5 Firefox extensions
This entry was posted on November 7, 2007
Amelie recently blogged about her top 5 Firefox extensions, and she’s inspired me to tell you about my own top 5 extensions.
1. Leetkey
The leetkey extension “transforms typed or static text to L337, ROT13, BASE64, HEX, URL, BIN, DES, AES, Morse code, DVORAK keyboard layout and to lower / upper case”. For example, if I wanted to write “Here are my top 5 Firefox extensions” in leet, I’d change the text-editor to leet and type normally, resulting in “|-|3r3 4r3 my 70p 5 F1r3f0x 3×73n510n5″. Geeky, but fun.
2. Screengrab!
The screengrab extension “will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.” It’s useful when I need to take a screencap of a webpage to show someone a fault, or to copy pictures people have tried to block with Javascript, and to make copies of websites that inspire me.
3. Stumbleupon
“StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn’t think to search for.” Enough said.
4. Webdeveloper
The webdeveloper toolbar “adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.” It’s useful for many things, but I mainly use it to resize my browser, edit html, and contact the validators. It has a million and one uses though; there’s a use for everybody.
5. FireFTP
“FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.” It’s an FTP client! In your web browser! Who knew Firefox could have so many uses?
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Heh, like Jamie I also have ScreenGrab now ^^. Thanks for sharing :).
You’re most welcome, ladies.
I recommend firebug too. I am far from knowing how to use is properly, but I like that you are able to hover over divs, margin etc in the program and it colour codes which is which in the browser. Good for seeing how a layout is put together.
Mags I recommend are .net, (internet, programning) digital arts (illustrator graphics), layers magazine (photoshop, graphics) web designer (again general internet) My favorites are web designer and computer arts, but that’s personal preference…
Thanks for the info on the 404 - I will give it a try later.
I have two of them 
The other I don’t really need xD They sound good though
I don’t need Leetkey, I can speak it myself 
I have Stumbleupon, but I don’t use it. Webdeveloper is amazing, I love editing the HTML or CSS while I’m on the page. And I already use FireFTP
Uh, leetkey converts from QWERTY to Dvorak? I thought…do they just switch up the keymap so the text becomes gobbledegook because they find that hilarious? Because…that sounds even more pointless than converting something into 1337, which at least has mild (albeit somewhat lame, no offense) humor value.
And I feel a need to make a public service announcement against FireFTP, which was laggy as hell when I tried using it; a separate FTP program took up a lot less memory and went much more swiftly than trying to use this module. Just my experience, though.
I LOVE FireFTP, ScreenGrab, and Web Developer. I’ll definitely try out some of the other ones. I loooooove my FF extensions. Thanks for these!
I have the last three on the list. I’d install Leetkey but I have too many extensions, and any more would just slow down Firefox.
@ kaylee - you can edit css with web developer toolbar? live? How did I miss this?
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Jamie said:
Thanks, I snagged the ScreenGrab! extension. Already use Web Developer & FireFTP. FireFTP isn’t my main FTP program but I use it when necessary.