Add-On a Minute Firefox Users, I Got 3 More You’ll Love!

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A few days ago I published a post listing my favorite 8 Firefox AddOns that I use to help me to … do stuff better and more efficiently (for lack of a better term).

Since publishing the post I not only received some fabulous references to other helpful addons, I also started doing a little more research – and I found something awesome… 3 things in fact.

3 Firefox Add-Ons You REALLY Want (Trust Me).

Ok so the first one is not mine, it comes courtesy of Steve Scott (to whom their is a dedicated Fanclub, of which I am the president – just so you know) who mentioned an AddOn in the Comments thread that blew me away – before I had even checked out the link! To save myself time I shall copy and paste the original comment here, followed by my take on the matter (because it’s getting me to shut up that’s the trick!)

Best FireFox AddOn For Bloggers/internet marketers – Hands down!

• EasyComment

Now you can waffle on wearing multiple niche 'hats'

“I have one for you to add too…. EasyComment. It pre-fills the Name/email/Website blocks when you go to comment. And if you want to comment as an affiliate site, you can preset different “profiles” so set the right profile and just click the link and it will pre-fill everything. (you can also put in pre-filled text for this block. But obviously that will just get you spam binned)”  -Steve Scott

I have tested this AddOn and it works beautifully! I even utilised the pre-filled comment box – even though I will just get spam binned… 

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• CookieSwap

Not quite so Crunchy, but oh - so much sweeter!

As the name suggests, CookieSwap is a Firefox addon designed to quickly and easily swap cookies. And it’s brilliant!

A Cookie – for those who are now furrowing their eyebrows and tilting their heads unnaturally to one side – is a little piece of information left by the ‘offending website’. Think of it as a crumb if you will – as it is basically a fragment of the websites data that is left, be it shopping cart details, User preferences, or your login details. The reasoning behind this is that it saves pageload time and utilises less total bandwidth as some of the data is stored within this ‘Cookie’

*It is important to note that Cookies are not software. They cannot be programmed, cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer.

OK so what’s that mean in English? Basically it means that you can login to multiple Facebook accounts (among a myriad of other things) without ever having to clear your cache (and associated cookies) ever again!
Not only that, when you select a different profile (after creating as many as you like) from the list it will actually log you out of your session and take you to the login screen for your new one (or log you in automatically if you have already done it once and told Facebook to leave you logged in)

This AddOn is an essential tool for any blogger/internet marketer as it gives you total control over which profile is active – meaning you can now literally align your Google/YouTube AND Twitter/Facebook accounts with one profile and never worry about ‘who you are logged in as’!

Important Note!

If you have this AddOn installed then you can now utilise it to log in and out of multiple accounts. This does not mean that you can now have multiple accounts!

If a network (like Facebook or YouTube for eg) allows the creation of more than one account then by all means, create away and use this addon and bask in the glory, BUT (and this is a bigger but than J-Lo’s) if the network or service DOES NOT ALLOW THE CREATION OF MORE THAN ONE ACCOUNT then this addon will not help your cause.

There are Cookies and then there is your IP Address. This IP Range does not change (ever) and so when you create an account it tracks the offending IP address (that’s you). If you then try to create another account the system will recognise the IP and tell you where to go. What you need in this case is a VPN Client/Service that will allow you to have more than one IP address and/or swap between a collection of them at will.

If you want to create multiple accounts with sites that would normally not allow it then you need to start utilising tools and software that will hide and change this IP at random. I recommend HideMyAss VPN Client if you are looking for a cheap service that works.

Ok then, moving on…

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• Awesome Screenshot – Capture and Annotate

Capture the Flag. Not as effective for screen shots, but WAY more fun.

“Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles,circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one click to upload and share.”

This would have to be the best screenshot tool I have used – and it’s free! OK so being an AddOn it is only limited to capturing images within the browser page – but really how often do you need to screen capture something that isn’t!?!

Need I say more?

That’s it for now – until I find more pieces of the Firefox puzzle under the couch or something… Stay tuned for the first ever Build Rank Profit Webinar – coming very (very) soon

As always, let me know what you think and tell me what your favourite AddOns are by commenting below

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