Last week, i wrote about My Top 15 Firefox Extensions. Toolbars are much more handy and useful than other normal extensions. In fact, i had mentioned 3 toolbars(Web Developer, del.icio.us, Imageshack) within that post. But, in reality i use a lot of toolbars. They count to 10 including the navigation bar.

This might seem a small number for people having 1280 x 1024 or higher resolution. But i have only 1024 x 768. The webpage would be displayed only in about 50% of the screen. Check out the screenshot below.

I’ll tell here what the extra toolbars are. The first two are Navigation Toolbar and FF’s inbuilt Bookmarks toolbar respectively. The third one is the del.icio.us toolbar, which makes it very easy to save links to del.icio.us. The next is the Web Developer toolbar about which i have told already.

The fifth one is Stumble Upon toolbar. I have a lot time when i don’t have any work. So i just start Stumbling Upon new sites. I keep the “Internet Tools” category up to date, such that it displays this message very often ” You have seen all pages in this category. Please try some other categories”. :D. Then comes Imageshack toolbar and Google toolbar. The 8th one is the Compete toolbar. I use it to boost my Compete rank since Alexa isn’t available for Firefox. The next one is my Clever Tutorials, which i created using Conduit. Since i am the creator, i should have it installed atleast to track errors. The last one is the vertical one – All in one sidebar, which displays most of Firefox’s windows within a sidebar.

Now, i think i use the most toolbars in FF. If you use more than what i do, feel free to share yours in the comments.

I have been using Firefox for very long now and i love all its extensions and themes (though i use the default theme). But there are certain extensions, without which my life on the web would be almost impossible. I have compiled a list of top 15 of these extensions here.

1) IE Tab

As i designer, i need to check my designs in different browsers. I almost, never use IE. This cool little extension lets me preview the IE version of my designs within a tab in FF.

2) Web Developer

This extension adds a list of menu items and a toolbar with many tools for web developers. IMO, a must-have for a web developer.

3) Firebug

This is another must-have for a web developer. You can edit(i love this), debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

4) FireFTP

I’m not a big fan of FTP since i use cPanel almost always. So i don’t like to install any program for this. But bulk file transfers require FTP and this greatly helps me by integrating within Firefox.

5) Gspace

My HDD capacity is just 40 GB and i have almost used it up. On the contrary, i have use 8-10% of my Gmail space. So i use this extension to store important files on Google’s servers.

6) Tabinta

Tabinta, short form of “Tab in text area”, allows to insert tab characters in textarea on websites. This is greatly useful, when i type codes online in my cPanel.
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I was reading a post on An Evil way to increase RSS stats over at Jon Lee and i noticed a very cool Dropdown RSS Feed Icon. Maybe he knew that everyone would be interested to know about it, he has a “what?” link below that.

FeedBuddy is simple tool which saves a lot of space by displaying the various Feed Readers’ buttons in a drop-down box. You need not be a genius to get it right. You can simply go to http://feedbuddy.net, enter your feed URL and get the code for Feed Icon. As Jon suggests, FeedBuddy should consider offering the option of choosing which chicklets to display.

They offer buttons of two sizes. I tried adding both of them to be sidebar. But i removed them as they didn’t look well here and also because i already have a clean looking RSS button :D.

UPDATE : I am adding the Feed Button here for preview purposes :