What are your favorite firefox extensions?

Below is a list my favorite firefox extensions that simplify my life on a daily basis.

1. Tab Counter by Morac - very useful tool that displays a number of currently open tabs. I normally try to limit my number of open tabs to a certain number, so that the browser doesn’t crash.

   

2. Measure It by Kevin Freitas - irreplaceable extension that helps to measure dimensions of images, distance between certain elements on a web page, etc.

   

3. Link Checker by Kevin Freitas - very useful tool that checks links validity on a web page.

   

4. Image Zoom by Jason Adams

   

5. IE View by Paul Roub - compare how website looks in FF and IE with two mouse clicks.

   

6. ColorZilla by Alex Sirota - also an irreplaceable extension that truly saves me a lot of time.

   

7. Firebug by Joe Hewitt - enables you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

   

8. URL Link by Neil Bird - allows you to select a non-URL link (for example: www.google.com) in a web-page and open it in a browser window.

   

9. Dummy Lipsum by Sogame - generates dummy lipsum text.

   

10. CSS Validator by Michael Langley - validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator.

    

11. Page Validator by Michael Langley - validates a page using the W3C Markup Validation Service.

    

12. Save as Image by Rowan Lewis - allows you to save a page as an image.

    

13. Web Developer by Chris Pederick

    

14. Update Notifier by Todd Long - notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. This is a must have for those who have lots of extensions installed.

    

15. Time Tracker by Juan Casares - keeps track of how much time you spend browsing.

    

16. View Source Chart by Jennifer Madden

    

17. CSS Viewer by Nicolas Huon - a very simple yet very useful css property viewer.

    

18. HTML Validator by Marc Gueury

    

19. Restart Firefox by Jed Brown

    

20. Firefox Accessibility by Jon Gunderson at Illinois Center for Information Accessibility

    

21. Firecal by Shivdep

    

What are your favorite extensions that you would like to share?

Bloglines Beta released

As an avid blog reader, I am happy to see that new Bloglines Beta version 3 is available at this time. It was great to see so many improvements that made the Bloglines RSS reader faster and more usable.

Here is a snapshot of a Beta Version that was available to the users this morning:

And here is a snapshot of a current version.

As you can see, the differences are significant in my opinion. It has become easier to move the feeds around as it is faster to drag and drop without having to click the Edit button first.

Here is a list of features/differences that I have noticed so far.

1. New Add Button that makes it easier and faster to add / import feeds
   

2. New Add Folder, Trash and Feeds Settings buttons are located at the very top in a easily accessible location
   
3. New Start Page where frequently accessed or favorite feeds could be dragged and dropped for a quick overview.
4. New 3 Reading Views that include “3 pane view”, “Quick View”, and “Full View”.

Top 17 Free Webmaster Tools

SEO Tools

backlink checker by
This tool provided by iwebtools allows you to view a list of sites that link back to your website.

google banned by
This tool is also provided by iwebtools and this will let you know whether your website has been banned by google or not.

keyword density analyzer by
This tool will analyze keywords and phrases on your website pages.

google pagerank predictor by
This tool will predict the pagerank of your site. This tool requires a minimum of 100 backlinks to accurately predict your pagerank.

google dance by
This tool queries Google’s three main web servers and display the result in three frames on 1 page. Watch Google Dance.

site analysis including link popularity by
This tool generates a report that includes information about number of backlinks, indexed pages, Google PageRank and whether your site is listed in search directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo.

SERPs position by
This tool queries three major search engines (google, msn, and yahoo) and reports your website’s position in each of those.

page strength by
A very versatile tool that provides you with such information as position on google, age of a domain, Alexa rank, domain visibility and much more.

General Site Tools

speed test by
This tool checks how fast your website loads.

domain whois by
This handy tools allows you to get all the details (such as DNS settings, Registrar information, domain status, and etc.) about any domain name.

HTML and CSS Tools

HTML encrypter by
Use this tool to encrypt your html so that your html content will be hidden from others.

HTML optimizer by
Use this tool to clean your html pages by removing all the white spacing thus making your pages load faster.

Html Validator by
Validate your pages, so that your site operates in conformance with W3C Recommendations and other standards, and more importantly displays predictable across all major browsers.

CSS Validator by
Use this tool to validate your CSS pages.

Miscellaneous

ip to location by
This tool will determine a location based on a provided IP Address. The beauty of this tool is that it is Ajax-capable, and it also provides you with a map of that location.

tiny url by TinyUrl.com
Make long URLs more usable so that they don’t break apart into multiple lines in your emails.

md5 Encrypt by
Use this tool to encrypt/encode your text into md5.