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17 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons For Social And Communication Purpose!

As you already know that Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. This is the age of social networking and strong communication. To keep this in mind I have made a list of 17 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons For Social And Communication Purpose.

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StumbleUpon

stumbleupon firefox

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Better Gmail

Better Gmail 2 0.7

Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.

Wizz RSS News Reader Lite 3.0.0.2

Wizz RSS News Reader Lite 3.0.0.2

A stripped down version of Wizz RSS News Reader. It has all of the functionality of Wizz RSS News Reader, without the Watch List and without the weather.

Yoono - Socialize your browser

Yoono - Socialize your browser 5.0.7

In a single browser sidebar, Yoono users can interact with the best of the Web more than ever before by discovering, communicating, and sharing with friends across multiple networks and platforms all in one place. Users can stop wasting time checking for updates and visiting multiple networks and instead can start enjoying!

Facebook Toolbar

Facebook Toolbar 1.2.1

Integrate your Facebook life into your browser. Search Facebook from anywhere
The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.

ThumbStrips

ThumbStrips 1.5.1

ThumbStrips is a Firefox extension that creates a filmstrip of thumbnails — ThumbStrip, get it? — so you can see your history, and stop guessing at page names in the history sidebar. You can even share your ThumbStrips! After you install it, a small icon will appear in your browser’s toolbar. Click the icon to view your ThumbStrips at the bottom of the screen.

BlogRovr

BlogRovr 1.1.779

You don’t have time to read ALL those Blogs! Let RovR do it for you. RovR fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on. BlogRovR also suggests popular items AND lets you Twitter about any site you’re on too.

Delicious Bookmarks

Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.104

Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.

Clipmarks

Clipmarks 3.5.0

Instead of copying and pasting links, Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites.

Shareaholic

Shareaholic 1.4.1

Shareaholic allows you to quickly share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a very wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites - such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Reader, MySpace, and StumbleUpon, without cluttering up your browser.

meebo

meebo 1.1

Get a sidebar with all of your buddies visible while you’re browsing. Get visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag and drop links and images from web pages right onto your friends!

Capture Fox

Capture Fox

You can use this tool to capture firefox window or the whole screen and make screencast videos. You can compose tutorials, e-lessons or videos. You can also record your voice.

Read It Later 0.9821

Read It Later 0.9821

Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

Yahoo! Toolbar

Yahoo! Toolbar 1.5.2.20080717

Use Yahoo! and the web faster, safer, and easier with new mail notification, search suggestions, online bookmarks, free spyware scanning, and more…

ReminderFox

ReminderFox

ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application.

TinyUrl Creator

TinyUrl Creator

Easy shrink any long URL or link in the page to something you can email or Twitter using the TinyUrl service with a single click in your browser.

TwitterBar

TwitterBar

TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.

WordOff Helps You To CleanUp HTML Code From Unnecessary Tags And Styles

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Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code. Most of us have to cleanup the HTML code manually in our working life. This web tool defintely help all of us in that situation and you also find this worth bookmarking.

Wordoff applies the following rules to strip the cruft that is pasted into WYSIWYG editors from Word.

  • Attributes are removed for all elements except <a>s
  • <span>s and <div>s are removed
  • Empty elements are removed
  • Consecutive line breaks are reduced to two
  • Statistical Link Tracking For Social Networks And Beyond - Shrink, Track, Grow With BudURL

    BudURL was designed from the start to give small businesses and marketers insight into previously invisible click traffic. Not everyone has access to Google Analytics and most of those that have it don’t know how to use it. BudURL makes link tracking amazingly simple. Shorten the link, put it somewhere, and watch the clicks roll in. It’s that easy!

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    BudURL is easy to use! Just paste in a large, unruly web address in the box above and click the “Shrink It!” button. You’ll get a unique BudURLâ„¢ that you can use anywhere you’d like such as social networks, instant messages, emails, ad campaigns, electronic newsletters, etc.

    11 Free Firefox 3 Themes You Probably Never Use Before

    This should not be new for you that Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions, add-ons, themes etc available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. As we have already published a post about Firefox add-ons.  In this post, I am listing down 11 Free Firefox 3 Themes You Probably Never Use Before. 

    You are welcome to share if you know more nice and beautiful firefox themes that that can be attracted by our readers/viewers. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed

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    13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier
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    Chromifox

    Chromifox

    A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Say hello to Chromifox, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.

    Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Office

    Firefox theme based on Microsoft Office icons.

    Phoenity Modern

    Phoenity Modern

    Phoenity based on the SeaMonkey Modern theme. For Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.

    FOXSCAPE

    FOXSCAPE

    A full featured retro theme for Firefox based on Netscape Communicator 4.8 on Windows.

    Flook Theme

    Flook Theme

    Flook Theme for Mozilla Firefox based on Flock.

    myFireFox

    myFireFox

    Myfirefox is the theme of the most perfectly simulating Internet Explorer 7+ by far. It can work perfectly in Windows Vista Ultimate.

    GrApple Delicious

    GrApple Delicious

    This theme is designed to fit well in the Mac OS X environment. It looks more similar as the Mac Operating System theme.

    Mattahan

    Mattahan

    This is very simple and elegant theme for firefox using mini icons. All credits go 2 Mattahan for his wonderfull icons.

    Modern Modoki

    Modern Modoki

    This theme is Modern Modoki theme looks like Netscape 8.

    PimpZilla

    PimpZilla

    Probably the most tacky & overdone piece of GUI design ever. Accept no less: Surf in style and browse like a king!

    Gradient iCool

    Gradient iCool

    This is a glowing dark theme based on Windows Media Player 11 with shinny glassy look.

    Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

    Guerrilla Mail

    GuerrillaMail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

    Add Video To Your Website And Build A Video Community At Magnify.Net!

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    Whether you upload, embed, or invite user contributions, Magnify.net’s platform can power your site’s video experience. The magnifyfree product allows you to gather videos from across the web and build your own video channel for free!

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    Complete control of your site name, url, page design and CSS, as well as 50% of the advertising impressions delivered to an ad network of your choice.

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    13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier

    As we all know that Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. In this post, I am listing down 13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier.

    You are welcome to share if you know more amazing firefox add-ons that will save time which our readers/viewers may like.

    IE Tab

    IE Tab

    This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

    Style Sheet Chooser II

    style sheet chooser for firefox

    Style Sheet Chooser II allows you to choose author-provided alternate style sheets for a web site, and have those choices be persisted for all pages on the same site. Style Sheet Chooser II replaces Firefox’s built-in style sheet switcher - its functionality is available via the [View]->[Page Style] menu item, one-click stylesheet rotating Toolbar icon and Statusbar icon. Icons can be switched on/off via Extension Preferences.

    CSSViewer

    CSSViewer

    A simple CSS property viewer. Add CSSViewer in your toolbar to use it. To enable/disable this, click the toolbar icon.

    CSS validator

    CSS validator

    Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated. For example it will work with http://www.w3.org/ as the URL has a CSS file.

    ColorZilla 2.0

    ColorZilla

    With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.

    FireShot 0.59

    FireShot

    FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages.
    Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers. It’s possible to choose whether entire web page or only visible part of this page should be captured.

    LinkChecker 0.6.3

    LinkChecker 0.6.3

    Check the validity of links on any webpage. With this add-on you can check if any link in the page is broken or not validated now.

    Font Finder 0.5c

    Font Finder

    Simply highlight a single element (e.g. a paragraph or a strong tag ), right-click and select `Font Finder`, then marvel as the full CSS text styling of the selected element appears.

    LiveHTTPHeaders

    LiveHTTPHeaders

    The goal of this project is to adds information about the HTTP headers by adding a ‘Headers’ tab in ‘View Page Info’ of a web page and by adding a tool in the ‘Tools->Web Development’ menu to be able to display http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet.This is also letting you edit request headers and replay an URL (beta). Look for the Replay button in the live window!

    SearchStatus 1.26

    SearchStatus

    Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools.

    FireFTP

    FireFTP

    FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

    MeasureIt 0.3.8

    MeasureIt

    Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

    Html Validator 0.8.5.2

    Html Validator

    HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The extension can validate the HTML sent by the server or the HTML in the memory (after Ajax execution)

    Find Everything About Any Website With Quarkbase

    Quarkbase

    Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. You can click on the image below to see the details about SmashingApps.

    Quarkbase

    It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc.

    Now Manage All Your Existing IM, Email, And Social Network Accounts From One easy to use application.

    digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

    digsby

    It can work as an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ with just one click. digsby is a social networking tool as well that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

    Create Interactive Guided Presentations By Combining Web Pages, Photos, PowerPoint And More With Your Voice, Notes And Highlights!

    A flowgram combines the advantages of slide presentations and screencasts with an interactive user experience that fully exploits the fact that almost all the information we might ever need is already on the web.

    flowgram

    Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency. This uniquely personalized package can be shared as an embeddable widget, email or as a link to either a private group or with the world. Flowgram recipients can interact with any of its pages by, for example, clicking on links, and playing and pausing videos.