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There are literally thousands upon thousands of extensions you can download for Firefox, some created by the Mozilla staff, some by random individuals who just wanted to create something cool for Firefox. Here’s one that’s really cool and was rated one of the top 15 extensions by PC World. It was created by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker.com.

It’s called “AboutSite” and it’s an information extension. Once you install it, anywhere you right-click on a web page you will have a menu to get more information from any one of eleven major information sources on the interweb. These are the websites listed in that menu:

• Alexa – for traffic detail and related sites
• Del.icio.us – for linkbacks
• Google – for related pages, cache and link information
• Kinja – site readers
• Netcraft – reports
• Open Directory – site listing
• Popdex search - citations
• Technorati – link cosmos
• Wayback Machine – archive
• Whois – query
• Yahoo – linkdomain

Download it HERE!

INSTALLATION NOTE: When you click on the download link, a yellow bar will appear across the page saying something along the lines of "Firefox prevented this site from installing software." It's a security precaution - if you edit your options and "allow" scribbling.net to install the extension, it should work. Be sure to restart Firefox to see it in your context menu.

Want to find out about more cool Firefox extensions? Check out our Firefox Extensions page.
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