June 6, 2008

Seriously, what Firefox plugins do I really need?

Well? On my macbook (yeay!) I did a fresh install of Firefox and it never was this fast and stable. Which firefox extensions are still necessary for SEO? I already have: Firebug, SearchStatus, SEO Link analysis and the web-developer toolbar.

I know there are lots of good extensions out there, but which one is really a killer one that every SEO needs?

7 Comments

  1. Arjan Snaterse says:

    I really can’t live without Foxmarks (bookmarks synchronizer). I love it and it works perfectly. Sure, it isn’t a SEO plugin at all, but it’s the first plugin I ever install :-)

    And further? You’re right. you can live without the whole bunch of plugins that make our lives as SEO much easier. What I do now is disable all the plugins that I don’t use really often and just enabled it when I need it. That saves a lot of loading time too :-)

  2. martijn says:

    uhm…greasemonkey?

  3. Roy says:

    @martijn greasemonkey is okay, but what scripts then? I didn’t need a whole lot of ‘em actually.

  4. martijn says:

    well in that case I don’t think about it in a way that you really need them, but more in a way; ease of use. You don’t need those extra clicks to find out if certain scripts are running, if links are nofollowed, etc.

    necessary : no?
    make things easy: yes!

  5. Navin says:

    It’s a cool thing to have the ‘user-agent switcher’ installed on your beloved Firefox.

  6. diseño web says:

    search status!, is one of the most completed.

  7. Dennis G says:

    I use the following, among the ones already mentioned:
    - screengrab; comes in handy to make presentations
    - Rankchecker; from SEObook; quick and dirty rank checker, but I think the info will also be send to Aaron’s database (at least that’s what I would do), so watch out how you use it :)
    - Httpfox; check the http header calls
    - Greasmonkey; with the following scripts:
    *GWT External Links++
    *Flickr photo Rank
    *Script updater
    *Count Stumbleupon likes
    *SU Review Permalinks
    *StumbleUpon Quick Tag
    *StumbleUpon Tag toplist
    *eBay auction enhancer
    *Google account multi-login

    Can you tell I like StumbleUpon :)