Must Have Firefox Extensions For Bloggers

Ease of use and better performance has always been a matter of concern for the internet users when it comes to choosing the right browser. Mozilla’s Firefox is a preferred browser thanks to the presence and development of numerous plugins and support by a great community. The statistics says it all,

Firefox has also helped bloggers to a great extent. The reason being is the availability of some really cool extensions. I would like to share a few extensions which may change the way you blog and maybe help you generate better content on your blog!

Taking different needs into account, we’ll explore some available firefox addons.

Scribefire – By far the most popular split-browser blog editor. It offers features like multiple blog management, tagging, categories, image support and source editing. It also supports FTP uploads. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.

Deepest Sender – It is pretty similar to ScribeFire, although it lacks features like image uploading, time-stamp editing and compatible tagging.

CoLT – Great addon for copying either a hyperlink text or both the link and the link’s text, in a user specified format. A not-to-miss extension for people who like referring web links in their posts.

Google Toolbar & Spellbound – Inline spell-checking capability, just like Microsoft Word. Both serve their purposes in an effective way. They are superseded by Firefox 2’s in built spell check feature.

Copy Plain Text – This is a must-have extension for hardcore bloggers who spend most of the time looking out for articles and news over Digg, techmeme, etc. While copying text, If you don’t want any of the original site’s formating, links or text-link-ads to be copied over as well, this is what you need.

Copy as HTML Link – It allows you to easily create HTML links for your posts. It creates an HTML link to the current page using the selected text, and then it copies it into the clipboard so you can past it into some other application. A handy tool indeed!

Resizable Text Area – For people who love to stick around with the regular blog editor, such as WordPress’s built-in WYSIWYG editor, this extension is indispensable. It helps to resize the text area quickly and freely.

Picnik – This is a cool plugin which lets you seamlessly capture and edit web page screen shots on the fly. It has an option to take a screen shot of just the visible web page, or of the entire web page! It is great for editing images, regardless of where they come from, be it – the web, your computer, your Flickr account, etc. The best thing is that it lets you edit images without having to download anything to your computer. A recommended addon for all bloggers who believe in “A picture speaks a thousand words“.

Alexa Sparky- Analyzing traffic for frequent bloggers is an inevitable need. This extension is brought to you by Alexa, Amazon’s traffic ranking service. It displays the trend graph at the bottom right corner of your browser window, along with several helpful features, such as determining websites which are similar to yours.

FireFTP – I’m sure there would be times when you need to upload files as in images, PDFs, etc. to your host, while writing a post. FireFTP helps you do that without the need to minimize the firefox browser. It is a simple an FTP client built into the Firefox browser. It’s free, simple and reliable. You can flip to FireFTP just like any other tab on the browser!

DocuFarm – Another cool extension that prevents you from leaving your firefox browser. It previews files like – word, PDF, etc within Firefox. It also has a handy search, which allows you to search even the PDFs!

StumbleUpon – Irrespective of how others stumble on your posts, I’m sure you would be the first one to submit your own articles to StumbleUpon. The reason being – StumbleUpon review is crucial to get the correct demographic to view your site, since the categorization of the “stumble” occurs during the first review instance. It’s better that you being the author of the post, write the first review and categorize it accordingly, rather than putting it in the hands of someone else. Also, StumbleUpon sends more users to your site on average than Digg does according to ProBlogger.

Speak It – Having the pleasure of listening to blogs while you lie down is something we all might think of, sometime or other. This extension uses Microsoft Text-To-Speech Engine and gives you the same pleasure.

coComment – This nifty extension keeps track of comments you’ve left on other websites. It is an indispensable addon for the posts where the comment section is providing more information than the actual post content.

Being a blogger, these were some of the extensions I strongly recommend! Happy blogging!

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