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Metadata Wrangler a great plugin by Jeffrey Friedl which allows you to automatically control the metadata which is included (or excluded) from your exported lightroom photos. The plugin works by stripping the metadata from your plugins when you export them from Lightroom. Prior to exporting the images you can specify what data you would like to keep, and what data you would like to exlude. This could particular be useful for stock / pro photographers who only want to keep the IPTC block (i.e. copyright details and keywords). Once you have set up a preset the same preset will be remembered the next time you do an export, making managing metadata extremely easy.

One thing that I love about FireFox is it’s vast library of add-ons. Not only does Mozilla provide an easy to search online repository of add-ons, but installing add-ons with FireFox is easy as three clicks. Although there are many useful add-on, there are also quite a few of not so useful add-ons — So I thought that I would share some of the add-ons that I commonly use.

• Clipmarks — Allows you to save sections of a page, without having to book mark the entire page. Useful for saving sections of a blog or news article. *requires registration
• CSSViewer -  A Simple CSS Property viewer. Provides a great, web 2.0 looking, floating window that displays CSS Information about the item your cursor is currently over.
• Dog Ears — Mark important parts of a webpage to easily relocate them. Lets you dog-ear long pages, with persistent marks, so that you can skip straight to those marks the next time you return to that page.
• FasterFox — Performance and Network tweaks for FireFox. I would recommend that you lower the performance increase back from “Turbo Charged” to at least “Optimized”, to help prevent overloading web servers.
• FlashGot — Download helper for FireFox. Absolute must have, especially if you have a download manager.
• GoogCal — A very simple add-on which lets you add a Google Calendar button to your toolbar.
• GreaseMonkey — Allows you to customise the way a webpage displays, using JavaScript. Scripts can be downloaded from userscripts.org.
• Locationbar — Changes the look of your location bar by putting emphasis on the domain.
• PDF Download — Allows you to choose if you want to view a PDF inside the browser, as a PDF or as HTML, or in your default PDF application. Another must have.
• Resizeable Form Fields — Lets you click and drag form fields to increase, or decrease, their size.
• Tab Scope — Shows a thumbnail preview of your tabs, when you hover over a tab.
• View Formatted Source — Displays formatted and color-coded source and CSS information for elements. Great for reading messy or long html source.
• Web Developer — A useful toolbar which gives you various web developer tools. Can also be useful for non web developer as it lets you disable JavaScript and CSS.
• Zotero — Helps you collect and manage citation information. Great if you’re doing research or you frequently require saving citation information.

One of your favourite add-ons not in the list? Post a comment with the add-ons you use.