Five Free Firefox Extensions for Photographers

If you aren’t using Firefox yet, you should. Not only is Firefox more secure than other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, but also has a strong developer community creating extensions to make your browser do more. And as a result, there’s a plethora of plugins to turn your simple browser window into a photo sharing, displaying, browsing and uploading station.

Check them out after the jump.

1. FoxSaver
Click here to download.

Away from your browser for a bit? Turn it into a screen-saver of photos on your hard drive with this extension.

2. ExifViewer
Click here to download.

Ever see a cool shot and wonder how they took it? The information is often stored on the EXIF data attached to an image. This handy plugin lets you view that data without having to download the image to your computer.

3. PicLens
Click here to download.

Instead of creating a slideshow of your images, this makes a slideshow out of all the images on the page. It’s a easy, quick and attractive way to browse through sites like Flickr and Google Images.

4. Fireuploader
Click here to download.

A great tool to upload images to a number of popular photo sharing sites - all from the same interface. From the extension site:

Upload files/photos/videos to Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Box.net (1GB of free space), Facebook, Webshots and OmniDrive in this version. You can add multiple files to the queue.

5. Picnik
Click here to download.

Want a quick and dirty editing job? This adds a menu command to Firefox to send an image to online photo editing software (covered here), where you can make a number of basic adjustments to the tone and lighting of an image.