Firefox Add-Ons I Use
Continuing from Heidi Cool’s post about Firefox plugins, I wanted to talk about some that I use. Then, we’ll jump back into web videos.
YSlow
Yslow is a Firebug addition that helps you examine the technical nature of your site. It gives you a “performance report card,” and recommends actions that you can take to improve the performance of your site. This includes things like making less HTTP requests, using a content delivery network and adding “expires” headers to your files. It’s been a great resource for me in trying to eke out every bit of performance I can from my sites. That second or two of improvement will probably never be noticed by my users, but it makes me feel better knowing I’m doing all I can to give them information quickly.
S3Fox
S3Fox gives you access to Amazon S3 directly in Firefox, so you can work quickly to add files, delete files, or change permissions. Sometimes you just want to make a quick fix and you don’t want to open another program, like an FTP client, to do this.
NoScript
The Noscript plugin gives you protection against javascript and flash if you desire it. It’s well developed and easy to use. You can whitelist certain domains you trust, and access info about the scripts running on any page by clicking the icon in the status bar.
Extension for Amazon EC2
EC2UI is only important to you if you regularly run EC2 instances and need an easy way to control them.
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Nice follow-up! It occurs to me that I should have posed my post as a blog-meme. As your post indicates I bet we’d get some great suggestions.
Feedback I’ve rec’d on Pownce shows that people are using an incredible assortment of add-ons—many that I’d not heard of, but that also sound quite useful.
In that vein I’ve just downloaded Yslow. Thanks for the great tip!
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