40 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians – Part Two
This post is part two of a series of three installments featuring Firefox add-ons of particular interest to librarians. Make sure to check out part one here.
For the Librarian Customizer
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Firefox Themes – Believe it or not, there are over 250 themes which you can dowload to liven up your FF browser. Check them out by browsing categories such as nature, sports, animals, retro, etc. or just view them all. |
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Colorful Tabs – This add-on colors every tab a different shade of the rainbow to make them easily distinguishable and, well, pretty. |
For Librarians who Code
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Firebug – Edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live on any webpage with this handy tool. Also, a useful add-on for this add-on is Yahoo!’s Yslow which will analyze any webpage and let you know why it’s slow. |
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Fire Sizer – This add-on enables you to resize your browser window to see what webpages look like in different dimensions. Handy for Web development. |
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Web Developer – This add-on provides a toolbar for Web developers with tools to validate code, work with images, CSS, and forms, as well as view source code, and display a variety of other information. |
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CSS Viewer – This simple add-on enables Web developers to view CSS information. |
For the Super-Organized Librarian
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Morning Coffee – Automatically open up a different set of webpages in tabs for every day of the week with this add-on. Great idea for the super-organized who have daily routines. |
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Webmail Notifier – This add-on will check all of your email accounts and notify you about your number of unread emails. Currently supports - gmail, yahoo, hotmail, daum, naver, empas, nate and more. |
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PermaTabs – This unique add-on enables you to turn your tabs into permanent fixtures, which will open up each time you launch Firefox. |
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AutoFill Forms – This handy add-on will enable you to automatically fill in online forms. |
For the Librarian Searcher
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Add to Search Bar – This incredibly useful add-on will add the search functionality from any webpage to your browser search bar. |
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Search Engines – Firefox has quite a few search engines which you can add to your search bar in the upper right corner of your browser, they list a few of the most popular here, and then 13,000 others here. A few which I think are especially useful are the IMDB, ESPN, Wikipedia, Weather Channel searches. |
For Librarians Who Bookmark
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Zotero – This is a citation management add-on which will capture citation information easily from webpages, stores files and links, allows notetaking, and exports citations in a variety of styles. |
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del.icio.us Bookmarks – This Yahoo! Add-on integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks with your browser offering additional functionality such as tagging browser bookmarks and enabling you to import your FF bookmarks into del.icio.us. |
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Stumble Upon – Browse the best reviewed websites online with this unique social bookmarking tool and add-on. StumbleUpon leads you to webpages based on your interest which you may never have “stumbled upon” otherwise. |
Part three coming next.
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