Mozilla Firefox addons for writers, journalists, and communicators

With EPUBReader you can read ePub files just in Firefox. No additional software needed! When you click an ePub file, it is presented for reading.

Select word, click on toolbar button and tab will open with explanation on dictionary.com. With this add on you can look up words in dictionary and thesaurus at dictionary.com and thesaurus.com or check the spelling at spellcheck.net.

Formerly Google Dictionary and Google Translate, it is an in-line dictionary for any word you point to or double-click; whole page translation of any web page in another language.

Search using Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world.

Zemanta helps you enhance your blog posts with relevant images, articles, links or tags. All with one simple click! Works with WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and others.

Capture and upload a webpage screenshot to UploadScreenshot.com. Screenshots are hosted free of charge with no advertisements.

FireShot captures webpage screenshots entirely. The screenshot can be quickly annotated and Uploaded to Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Saved to disk as PDF/PNG/GIF/JPEG/BMP, Sent to clipboard, Printed, E-Mailed, or Exported.

Displays the Exif and IPTC data in local and remote JPEG images.

Screengrab! Saves webpages as images.

It is enable to take metadata and MetadataSource

Clicking ‘Next’ and waiting takes longer than actually reading the page. PageZipper automatically merges all the ‘Next’ pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want.

CoLT (short for “Copy Link Text”) makes it easy to copy either a link’s text, or both the link text and its URL in a format you specify. This non-invasive extension simply appears as context menu items when you right-click a link. Fully customizable!

Unwraps a multi-line URL and opens it in a new tab.

QuickNote is a simplistic, tabbed note-taking extension, for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. Paste on middle click.

Extracts all links from web page, sorts them, removes duplicates, and displays them in a new tab for inspection or copy and paste into other systems.

Counts number of words in selected text. Can add the count to a running total. You don’t have to copy and paste everything to MSWord.

As the name indicates, this gives you an extra toolbar on your browser, but you can of course switch it off via the View menu when you don’t need it. This toolbar lets you quickly format text in bulletin-board code, HTML or Wiki code. I use it mainly for formatting forum messages, but it’s also useful for creating hyperlinks in blog comments, and in other cases where you need to create a quick bit of HTML on the fly.

Allows you to write blog posts and upload photos which you can then drag to several blogs or text editors.

Helps you group and organize pieces of text, links and photos (like article photos) for a quick grab, re-using and sharing. Saves loads of time, too.

This extension gives you complete control over rich text by stripping it plain. Perfect for research or quoting other sources without links and formatting you don’t want or need.

Pasting from one tab to another can be cumbersome. This extension makes the process a breeze by splitting your browser window into two (or three, or four) panels, allowing for instant copying and pasting between pages.

This extension makes text input areas flexible by allowing you to resize them as you like. Give your writing the room it needs to breathe.

Clever little time-saver which automatically adds text to the clip-board as soon as you select it.

When gathering research for an article you’ll often find yourself cutting and saving snippets of text from various websites. ScrapBook is a simple, bookmarks-style interface designed to make this process quick and painless.