If you can’t tell I am a bit of a nerd. For fun I have decided to outline a few of the FireFox plugins that warm my heart. Much of this revolves around pretending to be things that I am not. You might say these are Tactical FireFox Plugins. Basically, it is few and far between when I tell a server straight up who I am and where I came from.
- Tamper Data: Ever wonder what you browser is telling all the servers it talks to? Tamper Data will tell you. You may be surprised. If you know what is going on then you can fake, manipulate and control.
- Ref Control: When a normal browser visits your site it politely tells the server how it got there. This allows your server or your analytics package to logs all of this information for later use. When I visit you site, especially if you are the “search keyword roundup” type blogger, my browser tells you that Google sent me and then gives you some crazy set of keywords or maybe a bit of name dropping.
- Firebug: Client side validation is dumb. Firebug lets you edit and render the code of the sites you are visiting. Designed to help developers but you can have so much more fun with it.
- User Agent Switcher: Ever wonder what the world looks like when you are google? This is the way to find out. Many sites for legitimate or malicious purposes cloak their content. If you are google bot sometimes you see lots of spam and sometimes you breze past forum and news outlet logins screens or ads. Although I have not tried it I hear you can get free Wifi at Starbucks if you claim to be an iPhone.
- Web Developer Toolbar: Infinitely useful for development work. I use the cookie control and the form control a lot. The outline feature makes working with CSS ok.
- Reloader: Reload a page every… Handy if you are watching something or just want to generate a bunch of page views
Maybe if you guys are really good I will teach you how to update twitter using cURL. ohhhh….
