Cityen.cl - Emprendimiento y Negocios

When we had a session with the Revista City Team recently on advanced uses of Joomla, the CMS on which this website is built, Stefan was using Measure-it a Firefox add-on to measure how much space we had for an ad banners in a particular space of the website. The ladies said to me: "You should write a post about these tools". Here we go:

Firefox, the Internet Browser of the Mozilla community is built on the open source concept. That allows developers around the world to build extensions for this browser. Right now there are more than 170.000 extensions available, so called add-ons. Toolbars, Themes and search engines which help you to fulfil better your everyday tasks. I picked a few which I think are quite useful for young entrepreneurs that transfer your Firefox browser into a real Swiss Army Knife:

Google Translator

With this addon you can translate any text to your own language. Just select the text, right-click with the mouse and click "Translate this text with Google Translator". The translated text will overwrite the original selected text.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/46308/

Search Preview

The extension previously known as GooglePreview. Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google, Yahoo and Bing search results pages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/189/

WOT

The WOT add-on shows you which websites you can trust for safe surfing, shopping and searching on the web.

http://www.mywot.com

FireShot

FireShot is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that captures, edits, annotates, organizes, exports and prints screenshots of your web pages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/5648/

This images is created with screen capture!

 

Directions with Google Maps

Highlight an address on a web page, right click the mouse, and select "Map with Google" from the context menu, a Google Maps tab will open with the searched location.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/13028/

Quick Fix Note

I use this a lot as note taking, instead of having paper notes all over the place: QuickFox Notes is a multi-tab note taking add-on for Firefox that uses the integrated bookmarks system to store the notes. A bookmarks synchronization add-on (e.g. Xmarks) can also be used to synchronize notes between computers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/13572/

Ad Blocker

Adblock Plus change the way that you view the web by removing unwanted ads. You can also choose from over forty filter subscriptions to automatically configure the add-on for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1865/

... and for the advanced user:

Colorzilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/271/

MeasureIt

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

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539/

If your webdesigner asks you to clear the Cache of your Browser because you can't see the update on your website, use:

Clearcache: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1801/

.... and last but not least for the twitterers: URL Shrink Easy

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/13893/

Which add-ons are you using, feel free to comment!