As a webmaster your job is rough enough. You have to stay on top of Google, while maintaining those 5 star ratings from your readers. You have to maintain multiple websites while building traffic to… all of them. You have to learn to endure the days when the revenue just isn’t there. Let’s face it, life ain’t fair, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get help from your web browser. Below you will find 5 tools for use with Firefox that I personally use to get my job done, day in and day out. Hope they can lend you that helping hand, like they do for me on a daily basis.

SearchStatus Toolbar

If you care at all about your google and Alexa rankings then you will want to grab this handy little toolbar add on. It displays both the Alexa and Google PR ranking of the website that your currently browsing. As a web marketer myself, I install this tool as soon as I install firefox and set it to default over IE.

Web Developer Toolbar

This tool places some key web design/development buttons in your toolbar. I like to use this one in combination with the next add - on as a web developer knock out punch.

FireBug

This tool is perfect for editing, debugging, and monitoring the CSS of your website (or any website that your currently browsing). I personally love this tool and use it in combination with the Web Developer Toolbar.

FireFTP

A File Transfer Protocol for Firefox, although it is not the best tool for making File Transfers out there, it’s free and works great in FireFox. I use this tool to transfer files whenever I make use of my Linux powered Laptop.

Colorzilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies, this tool is quickly becoming my favorite of the pack. I use it to quickly find RGB color codes whenever I surfing around the web. It is great for finding a particular color code on the fly, rather than my old method of printing the screen then pasting it into Fireworks. If you do a lot of design work and need to cherry pick color schemes from a variety of websites, then you should not be without this add - on.

There you have it folks. My top five Firefox plugins that help me get the job done day in and day out. Now before the hate mail starts flowing in, I know that there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of Add - ons out there for Firefox. This list is simply my top picks. If you have others that get the job done better, then please be sure to let me know by commenting.