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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