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Here is another firefox plugin that adds PageRank, Alexa and Compete bars in your browser’s status bar, bottom right corner.

On top of that, for every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google Category, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy.

Plugin page: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

Some things are better understood by screenshots and animated pics, so here I have created a demo for this plugin in action. As you can see below, this plugin for firefox combines progress bar with address bar, it integrates the progress bar inside the URL field in your browser. Normally firefox shows the progress bar at the right bottom corner of your browser.

It’s one of those must have plugins for firefox. Imagine looking at the blog address and the loading time at the same time, while waiting for your favorite blog to load! ;)

Plugin Page: mozilla.zeniko.ch/fission.html (or click here for direct install)

To continue where we left off…

You might not have multiple twitter accounts, that’s understandable, but I am sure you have many gmail accounts? Well, I do… I have couple of gmail accounts, usually different accounts for different projects.

So, if you are like me, have to check different gmail accounts all the time, you know that logging out from one account and logging in to another account can be a hassle. Especially if you check your accounts frequently.

To solve this problem, you can use Gmail Manager add-on for Firefox. As you can see from the screenshot, in order to switch from one gmail account to another, you just have to right click on the gmail icon in the firefox taskbar, and choose your particular account to login. That’s it, you will automatically will be logged to your chosen gmail account.

This plugin allows you to use secure connection for your accounts. Also, since it has the option to store passwords, it’s highly recommended that you do not use this at the public PCs where other people can access your emails.

Plugin Page: www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/

Isn’t it strange that Google’s own product Google Gears does not recognize the URL google.com? [see pic] Probably they are not doing exceptions to their own domains, but come on who would complain?

Google Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications. For example with it, you can use Google Docs and Google Reader offline when your PC is not connected to the internet. When it is connected, it would synchronize the offline data with online applications.

Additionally, Zoho and Remember the Milk too use Google Gears.

http://gears.google.com

I hope you are already using delicious.com to manage your bookmarks. If you are not, then I strongly recommend that you should. Delicious Bookmarks 1.5.44 is an official delicious add-on for firefox that will make your bookmarking a lot easier.

Once you have installed it, don’t forget to bookmark my blog ;) Apparently 56 people have already bookmarked it on delicious. What? Only 2 person bookmarked it in 2008? Come on guys we need to increase that! bookmark to delicious.

Hyperwords is a great plugin for firefox. You can do with it many stuff. But what I liked most about it was the translate feature that translates pages on the fly - without opening a new window, right there on the same page.

For example, below is a news page in Russian. I have selected the paragraph and translated it into English. As you can see other parts of the website is still in Russian, and only the selected paragraph has been translated. Cool huh?

Here is a YouTube video of what more you can do with this plugin.