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Cool FireFox Browser Extensions for SEO & SEM

Pole Position Marketing's exclusive list of FireFox tools we love and use regularly. These tools are essential for all of our website marketing campaigns.

• AI RoboForm: RoboForm is Top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling.
• ColorZilla: Get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.
• Copy Plain Text: Gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!
• Download Embedded: Downloads all or selected embedded objects on a webpage. Can be used for downloading movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, or other embedded files (although this does NOT work on video embedded in flash.
• Firefox Environment Backup Extentsion (FEBE): Backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers.
• Firefox Showcase: Manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.
• FireFTP: Provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
• Google Toolbar: Enhance Google search, receive warnings about web pages that may be unsafe, subscribe to feeds with one click.
• HTML Validator: Shows you pages which are or are not validated and suggests corrections to clear up validation issues.
• Link Counter: Display a count of links of a web page and frames. Group and highlight links by type.
• IE Tab: See how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.
• InFormEnter: Adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required.
• McAfree Site Advisor: Provides a warning status of sites in Google and Yahoo search results. Also allows you to view the status of any site you're on.
• PDF Download: Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside FireFox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
• Screen Grab: Save the entire page as an image, just the visible portion, or the browser window.
• Search Status: View any page's Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place.
• SEO for FireFox: Pulls a ton of marketing data right into the search results to help you analyze how competitive a marketplace is.
• SEOQuake: Obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, save them for future work, compare them with the results, obtained for other, competitive, projects
• Show IP: Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar.
• Snap Shots for Firefox: Turns ordinary links into inline videos, photo albums, summaries, member profiles, Wikipedia summaries, stock charts and much more.
• RankQuest SEO Toolbar: Provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools.
• Read it Later: Lets you create a reading list from interesting links. Once it's installed, you can right-click on any web site or link to save it to your reading list.
• Tabbrowser Extensions: Add-on package for extending operations of tabbed browsing, for example tabs become reorderable by drag and drop.
• Web Developer: Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Excellent for viewing/editing CSS files, viewing source code, HTML Validation, and more.
• Word Count: Lets you count the number of words on any web page you are viewing.
• X-Ray Viewer: Lets you view the HTML markup of any page without having to view the source code.
• Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool: See what what a page will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser.