For those of you who are pro-active in your web surfing experience and want to have tools to give you more information about the websites you are visiting, these tools can help you achieve this. Each of the browsers has a different group of tools you can use. Here is a list of useful tools for each of the browsers.

Firefox Tools

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Interclue

Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab.

Video DownloadHelper

The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

FlashGot

Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

Adblock Plus

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

WOT

WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT’s color-coded icons show you ratings for 20 million websites – green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Firebug 1.2 requires Firefox 2 or 3.

Web Developer

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Internet Explorer Tools

Alexa Toolbar

includes a popup blocker, a search engine entry box, related links and information about the Alexa ranking of the current website; Alexa uses it to measure website statistics.

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

aims to aid in design and debugging of web pages. It allows validating of CSS and HTML. It allows the viewing of the page’s source as well as of the DOM source and the CSS selectors that were applied to an element.

SpoofStick

aids defending from phishing.

These tools are a good start for those who use these 2 browsers. Other browser extensions, plugins, and more can be found by searching google for them.

I used the Mozilla website to find the Firefox extensions and Wikepedia to find the Internet Explorer extensions.

I will continue to grow this list over time to help you with your web surfing.

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