I have been a firefox guy for several years now, and one of the reasons I remain loyal to the browser, is the extensions and add-ons. There are just so many things that I have snapped onto my browser that make my life a little easier. Of all the firefox extensions and add-ons I use, these are my top six, must have, best firefox extensions:

1. Gmail Manager – Gmail is the central unloading point for all incoming email to some of my dozen or so email addresses. This extension keeps a handy little inbox counter and icon down on the right bottom corner of my browser. It even displays little snippets of my messages, so I can see if it is anything worthwhile without logging into Gmail.
2. Google Preview – Google Preview is a nifty little extension that adds a small thumbnail screenshot to the left of your search results in Google. This is one of those extensions that you don’t think matters until you use it, and then you won’t ever want to use Google without it. Those little screenshots really allow you to scan search results more intelligently and more effectively, totally worth the install.
3. Search Status – Right from their description, “Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.”. For geeky web people like me that do a ton of media buying and other nerdy stuff, this is an awesome little extension.
4. FireBug – Firebug is something that I added recently, but use probably 10 times per day at least since bringing it into my extension family. This little plugin allows you to view all sorts of interesting information about the css/html/etc for any web page you are on. It’s like “view-source” on steroids and HGH at the same time. My favorite feature is being able to edit CSS live on any site as I am developing and messing around. Saves a TON of time.
5. FireShot – This one came via a friend of mine, and could be the coolest add-on I have installed yet, though I haven’t had to use it in a real situation yet. Fireshot is a super awesome screen grab and annotation tool. Download and try, it is awesome.

Any other good ones out there I should try (aside from Greasemonkey)?

My buddy Noah, who is always up to something interesting, just threw together two sites that are bound to cripple the productivity of nearly every female office worker that stumbles by them. Thanks to Noah, no longer do you need to scour all corners of the internet to get your fix when it comes to Sneezing or Snoozing puppies. He has gone ahead and taken the work out of the hunt, and given the world…you guessed it…SneezingPuppies.com and SnoozingPuppies.com. And to make it even easier, he has named the URLs in such a way that there is no confusion as to which is which.

Though it may seem otherwise, I am not mocking these sites. They will be a minor hit, I have no doubt. As I commented on his post, this sort of stuff freezes girls in their web tracks, they can’t consume enough of this content. Web porn for girls is videos and pictures of puppies, not of hunky dudes, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.