Top Five Twitter Extensions for Firefox

Firefox is a powerful browser with excellent features such as better searching, better bookmarking, smart address bar, master passwords, and excellent add-ons, including some great ones for the Twitter application. Here is a list that I have compiled of the top five Twitter extensions for Firefox:

1. Power Twitter

Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including:

-search and recent searches
-search scoped to a specific user
-status history peeking on mouseover
-Facebook status updates
-inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly, and more
-url expansion
-url translation to page titles
-open web update (news feed) mapping
-custom settings
-@mentions
-photo uploading
-link shrinking
-#hashtags

2. StockTwits

Install and magically turn StockTwits tagged tickers on twitter.com into links back to stocktwits.com so you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.

Works with:

* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.1b2

3. TwitterFox

This extension lets you know your twitter status.

The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.

You can see more information on http://twitterfox.net/

If you have a problem with TwitterFox, please follow and send me a tweet on Twitter. You can find @TwitterFox on http://twitter.com/twitterfox

4. TwitterBar

TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox's address bar. A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.

You can also post by typing "--post" at the end of your tweet. Clicking the Twitter icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet containing the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.
Works with:

* Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*

5. Twitzer - Twitter more!

Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com.

It also provides a feature where you can resolve all TinyURL links to actual links so that you are sure you are clicking on safe links.
Works with:

* Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.*