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There are so many chocolate-y good plug-ins for the Firefox browser. I have about a dozen that I use regularly. Let me tell you about a few.

1) Forecastfox
If you work in a windowless office, Forecastfox by Richard Klein and Jon Stritar, could be your window to the world. This plug-in lets you place weather icons in the status bar or the toolbar of Firefox. It’s inconspicuous, doesn’t take up much real estate, easily customizable and performs its service simply displaying understandable weather icons.

Hovering over an icon brings up a detailed and customizable weather report from AccuWeather.com.

2) Colorzilla
Here’s a quick and easy way to get RGB or HEX color codes. Alex Sirota’s Colorzilla plug-in places a small eyedropper icon in your status bar. Shift-escape enables the tool, hover over a color on a web page and color info as well as DIV ID displays below. A contextual menu provides easy copying of color codes as well as access to a color picker and a zoom tool. Nifty!

3) MeasureIt by Kevin A. Freitas
This was one of the first plug-ins I installed. When activated, you can measure in pixels the height and width of any element on a web page. This is useful for the web designer attempting to line up elements on a page or measure a logo or other image.

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