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Here is a list of number of extremely useful third party plug-ins and extensions to help web analyst to test, report and analyze the web data easily.These firefox extensions saves us a lot of time for to analysis our web traffic efficiently.

1. Web Analytics Solution Profiler/Debugger (WASP)

Provides detailed information about the data being collected trough Query String and Cookies by web analytics solutions. Covers 125 tools, including Google Analytics, Omniture SiteCatalyst, Coremetrics, WebTrends, ad networks and several others.

2.Data Analytics Firefox Addson

DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables.

3. TrackMe Analytics on user habits.

TrackMe delivers Personal Analytics on user habits and can provide teachers with a tool to use in assessment which can encourage learners to engage in inquiry in a domain, whilst documenting and developing their habits.

4.Greasemonkey

Grease monkey allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Here’s a list of scripts which’ll help web analysts, before that make sure u have latest version of grease monkey addons.

5. Checks to see if Google Analytics is installed on any given page

This extension checks the current page you are on to see if Google Analytics is installed. It’ll automatically detect and report back to your browsers status bar.

6. Counterpixel - Display the counting/measurement pixel of a website.

The tool tries to find counting/measurement pixel of tracking software from different services and companies.

7. Fire Analytics - allows you to view Google Analytics reports in Firefox.

Open Tools > Fire Analytics menu, specify your email & password on Preferences tab (alternatively you can just log into your account using browser), choose Report type and click “Show report” button.

8. Better Google Analytics - Enhances Google Analytics with a compilation of user scripts.

9. Ghostery - Firefox Plugin

Ghostery lets you see the invisible web on every page on the web. Invisible web objects include web bugs that track your behavior as well as analytic trackers used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience.

10. Alexa Sparky

Sparky is a free Firefox browser plugin built by Alexa, that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing.

One of the most prominent Firefox annoyances often happens when you try to select a portion of text. Most of the time, some unwanted portion of adjacent text also gets selected, making you start the selection process again.

What many do not know is that you can enable Word or Notepad style mouse caret (the vertical blinking mouse cursor) in Firefox, using which more precise selection of text can be done.

Just hit F7 button while in Firefox and it’ll ask you whether you want to enable caret mode. Select yes and you get a nice blinking cursor on screen. Using this cursor you can select text the traditional way - click and drag with mouse, arrow keys, Ctrl + arrow keys to highlight words etc.

Want to make your Firefox theme look like Google Chrome? Barely days after Google chrome browser was launched, the Firefox community has developed an extension to give your the same appearance.

Get the Chromifox firefox extension, called a “coat of Chrome for Firefox”. Its is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and is inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.

The theme developer points out that some third party extensions may not work. Also note that the Google Chrome features tabs on top, but that is not possible with Chromifox because “it takes an unreliable CSS hack to accomplish that change. Also, believe me I already know that tabs you open in the background will appear “disconnected” from the other tabs. This is a limitation in the Firefox tab binding, and for now, I can’t find a way around it.”

Chrome Package is another firefox extension, that is a hack of the Chromifox theme, to enable Google Chrome lookalike mode in Firefox. I am sure someone out there is busy designing another great theme to mimic Google Chrome.