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Becoming successful while blogging means learning how to use tools that are free and proven.

While many people have preferences between IE and Firefox, when it comes to blogging, Firefox is showing to be blogging user friendly when it comes to addons.

Here is a short list of the Addons that we use for blogging, all free and easy to use.

If you have a favorite Firefox addon not listed here, then share with us your blogging tool.

Clippings - If you find yourself typing information over and over again in web page forms or forums or in your email, you will absolutely love this extension. Just type once and save it to access it in 2 clicks from your context menu or status bar. Clippings Manager offers folders to organize your Clippings and an option to export and import your clippings between computers.

Screengrab - I love adding pictures/screenshots to my blog posts. A picture is worth thousand words indeed. Gone are the days when you would have to printscreen the whole page and then use Microsoft Paint to crop the image you want. Use ScreenGrab to snipe just a portion of the page you are looking at save it to your computer or clipboard. You have option to grab just your mouse selection or complete page or just the visible part. You can set the option beforehand to save it to either jpg or png.

SearchStatus - This extension is mostly known and used for SEO. You don’t have to be an SEO expert to use this. In its very basic form, while surfing other blogs quickly see their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank and Compete rank with this extension. When you are looking at blogs with dofollow enabled for comments, this can be of great assistance to help determine where to concentrate your commenting to gain backlinks.
It also features other SEO features such as keyword density analyzer, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links and more.

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

• Save Web page
• Save snippet of Web page
• Save Web site (In-depth Capture)
• Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
• Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing features
• Full text search and quick filtering search
• Text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes

Extended Copy Menu.

**Replaces the copy plain text that Firefox had.**

It adds a “Copy As Html” and “Copy As Plain Text” to the context (right-click) menu. It is useful if you want to copy the text or underlying html from a web page into documents, posts or other applications.

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