There are a few Firefox add-ons that I use that save me a lot of time and allow me to standardize my browser experience in all my computers and in both Windows7 and Ubuntu. Some are for web development but most aren’t.
- Speed Dial – Direct access to your most visited websites
- Gmail Manager – Manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Also, allows you to view account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
- FireFTP – a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
- FireShot – a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages
- TinEye Reverse Image Search – TinEye.com is a reverse image search engine. The plugin adds a right-click menu item that allows you to search for an image to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
- Wappalyzer – an add-on for Firefox that uncovers the technologies used on websites.
The settings for speed Dial, FireFTP, and Gmail manager can be exported to a file and imported into other machines easily allowing you to standardize your browser settings on several machines and operating systems.
