I found the perfect Firefox plug-in for our addiction to microstock. It's called Speed Dial, and what it does is gather nine frequently visited pages in one tab and refreshes them as often as you want. I have mine set for every 15 minutes. So...every 15 minutes, I can see if I've had any sales or not without having to visit every single site. Absolutely fantastic! There is also another add-on called Fast Dial. Same thing, but with 12 windows under one tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721

Another bonus is that I can see if a site is down without the frustration of repeatedly trying to login.

And for those of you who weren't around two years ago when it was launched, my other must have is the Shutterstock Bar. It provides stats on DLs and income for the month in an inconspicuous bottom corner of the browser. I can keep tabs on my sales without repeatedly having to visit the site.

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Now that I also have Speed Dial, I can also see when my pending images have been reviewed at SS instead of checking every few hours.

Very nifty little tools indeed! :-)

Does anyone else have any helpful Firefox Add-ons?

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Thanks, I just added Shutterstock bar, had never heard of it before. Now it's going to be even more addictive, watching the cash increase!!

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Yes I downloaded Speed Dial. It's great except that when I click on a window to go to the site it opens in a new tab but the focus doesn't shift to that tab. I have to manually select it, which is annoying.

If I right click on a frame and select open in New Tab the focus switches as expected.

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I found that a little annoying, too, but overall both Speed Dial and Fast Dial are great little plugins. I ended up going with Fast Dial, because I like how it opens up every time I create a new tab (it replaces the usual blank page) . Quick check of the sites before I move on to what I was doing. And when I click on the thumbnail, the site opens up in the same tab instead of a new one, which I also prefer.

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I'm not much of a profit, accepted, rejected, site watcher, but since you asked for favorite plugin, yes here's one I use and like.

EXIF Data Viewer (Mozilla Firefox)

Extracts and displays the Exif (Exchangeable Image File), IPTC-NAA/IIM (International Press Telecommunications Council / Newspaper Association of America / Information Interchange Model), and IPTC Core (Adobe XMP, Extensible Metadata Platform) metadata, as stored by digital still cameras, in both local and remote JPEG images.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905

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One of my Favourites is PicLens (although it might be a google add on, cannot remember) instead of viewing pictures by pages you can do them as a gallery which is much faster if you are searching the web (or photobucket/flickr etc) for a particular image that you think may have been hijacked or just to look for own images.

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