Foxy SEO Tool - A Firefox add-on to help with Search Engine Optimisation

Version History

Version 0.8.4 — July 11, 2010 — 60 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 4.0b2pre

  • Tested with Mozilla Firefox 3.7a5pre
  • Tested with Mozilla Firefox 4.0b2pre
  • various small code and graphical corrections
  • Updated Misc / Proxy View
  • Updated Misc / Copyscape
  • Added Social Media / Flickr
  • Added Social Media / Google Buzz
  • Added Social Media / Facebook
  • Updated Tools / Search Spider Simulator
  • Updated Profile / SEOmoz Linkscape
  • Updated Directories / Other Directories / Best of the Web
  • Removed Directories / Other Directories / Librarians' Internet Index (see ipl2)
  • Removed Directories / Other Directories / Internet Public Library (see ipl2)
  • Added Directories / Other Directories / ipl2 (merger between Librarians' Internet Index and Internet Public Library)
  • Updated Google / Google Cache (new webcache.googleusercontent.com domain)
  • Updated Google / Google Cache text (new webcache.googleusercontent.com domain)
  • Removed Social Media / Bookmark / Ask (service retired in june 2010)
  • Updated Network / IP neighbors (new site as the previous one is offline)
  • Updated Keyword / Research / Dictionnary (changed to wiktionary.org)
  • Updated Keyword / Wordtracker
  • Replaced Keyword / Google Sponsored Links with Keyword / Google Adsense Preview Tool as Google Sponsored Links isn't available anymore
  • Added Profile / SEMRush
  • Added Keyword / SEMRush Keyword Report
  • Changed Keyword / Page Analysis / SEMRush Domain Report to Keyword / Page Analysis / SEMRush URL Report
  • Removed Keyword / Google Synonym (ads overload)
  • Removed About / Links / Hot Topics / Yahoo! Buzz (became a news aggregator site instead of showing popular yahoo! searches)
  • Disabled some Technorati related functions until they put them back up

Version 0.8.3 — October 31, 2009 — 60 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6.*

  • Added Google / Google Cache (text)
  • Fix Directories menu icon transparency
  • updated Social Media / Share / Twitter
  • updated Directories / Yahoo! Directory
  • Added Google / Google Related
  • Updated Keywords / Page Analysis / SEMRush domain report
  • Added Keywords / Page Analysis / Keyword and Competitor Site Profile
  • Tested with Firefox 3.6 beta
  • Fixed issue with the Spider Simulator and Firefox 3.6 beta
  • added default icon for disabled add-on status

Version 0.8.2 — August 24, 2009 — 58 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*

  • changed source for Network / Server Headers function
  • updated Profile / Google Ad Planner
  • updated Network / IP neighbors
  • updated Google / GWT Backlinks
  • updated Profile / SEOmoz linkscape

Version 0.8.1 — June 20, 2009 — 57 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*

  • fixed error when using functions for hostname on blank pages
  • updated links for new Google Webmaster Tools site
  • tested compatibility with Firefox version 3.5 RC2
  • updated Yahoo! / Yahoo! News search

Version 0.8.0 — June 5, 2009 — 57 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • updated urls in Yahoo! Explorer and Yahoo! Backlinks from https:// to normal http://
  • wrapped variables and functions within a javascript object to prevent potential conflicts with other add-ons
  • updated old Live functions to new Bing address
  • added Others / Bing / Bing News

Version 0.7.9 — May 26, 2009 — 57 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • changed Network / Performance / Network World Response from domain only to full url check
  • updated Network / Geo Location
  • renamed Keyword / Page Analysis / Keyword Analysis to Keyword Importance
  • added Keyword / Page Analysis / Keyword Density
  • renamed Keyword / Page Analysis / Meta Tag and Page Analyzer to Meta Tags
  • added Profile / Google Ad planner
  • removed About / Links / Hot topics / MSN A-List (page became useless)
  • Updated Social Media / Share / Yahoo! Buzz

Version 0.7.8 — April 11, 2009 — 57 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Network / IP neighbors
  • added Keyword / Page Analysis / SEMRush Domain Report
  • updated new url in Traffic / Alexa
  • changed Links / Hot Topics / Alexa Movers & Shakers to Alexa Hot Urls
  • Simplified Traffic menu and removed links to secondary pages
  • Removed About / Keywords links (new keywords menu now mostly covers it)
  • added title insertion in Social Media / Share / Digg
  • added Social Media / Share / Reddit
  • added Social Media / Share / Squidoo
  • added Social Media / Share / Technorati
  • added Social Media / Share / Mixx
  • added Social Media / Share / Propeller
  • removed About / Hot topics / Lycos 50 (now redirects to homepage)

Version 0.7.7 — March 22, 2009 — 57 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • created new menu Social Media / Share
    • added Social Media / Share / Delicious
    • added Social Media / Share / Digg
    • added Social Media / Share / Facebook
    • added Social Media / Share / Myspace
    • added Social Media / Share / Stumbleupon
    • added Social Media / Share / Twitter
    • added Social Media / Share / Yahoo! Buzz
  • created new menu Social Media / Bookmark
    • added Social Media / Bookmark / AOL
    • added Social Media / Bookmark / Ask
    • added Social Media / Bookmark / Google
    • added Social Media / Bookmark / Live
    • added Social Media / Bookmark / Yahoo!
  • added Keyword / Research / Google Synonym

Version 0.7.6 — March 8, 2009 — 55 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Profile / Safety / Web of Trust
  • added Network / IP address
  • created Network / Performance menu
  • renamed Network Performance to Network World Response
  • moved Network World Response, Page Loading Test, Ping Test to Performance menu
  • "My IP Information" now loads in new tab

Version 0.7.5 — February 15, 2009 — 55 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • renamed Spider Simulator to Search Spider Simulator
  • renamed Meta Tag Analyzer to Meta Tag and Page Analyzer
  • added Network / My IP information
  • created Tools / W3C Validation
    • added Tools / W3C Validation / Validate HTML
    • added Tools / W3C Validation / Validate CSS
    • added Tools / W3C Validation / Validate Links
  • added Network / Server Headers
  • added Profile / SEOmoz Linkscape
  • added About / Links / Hot Topics / Technorati Popular
  • added About / Links / Hot Topics / AOL Hot Searches
  • created menu / Others /
    • added Ask menu to Others
    • added Others / Ask / Ask Search Domain
    • added Others / Ask / Ask News
  • created new menu Tools / Files
  • created new Profile / Safety menu
  • moved Profile / Google Safe Browsing to Profile / Safety / Google Safe Browsing
  • moved Profile / Siteadvisor to Profile / Safety / Siteadvisor
  • moved Misc / Spam Blocklist to Profile / Safety / Spam Blocklist
  • created new menu Directories / Other Directories
    • added Directories / Other Directories / Best of the Web
    • added Directories / Other Directories / Librarians' Internet Index
    • added Directories / Other Directories / Internet Public Library
  • created new menu Keyword / Research
  • created new menu Keyword / Page Analysis
    • added Keyword / Page Analysis / Google Search-based keyword tool
    • added Keyword / Page Analysis / Google Adsense Preview Tool
  • added Keyword / Domain Name Search
  • added Keyword / Google Alerts
  • changed Keyword / Keyword Density function to seomoz page and renamed it Keyword Analysis

Version 0.7.0 — February 3, 2009 — 52 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Google / GWT Backlinks (account with Google required)
  • added Google / GWT Top Searches (account with Google required)
  • added Yahoo! / Yahoo! News
  • added Live! / Live Image
  • added new menu: Keyword
    • added Keyword / Google Insights Search
    • added Keyword / Google Sponsored Links
    • added Keyword / Google Trends Searches
    • added Keyword / Google Adwords CPC
    • added Keyword / Dictionary
    • added Keyword / Thesaurus
    • added Keyword / Wordpot
    • added Keyword / Wordtracker
    • added Keyword / Wikipedia
    • added Keyword / Keyword Density
    • added Keyword / Meta Tag Analyzer
  • moved some links from About / Keyword to new menu Keyword
  • added Profile / Google Safe Browsing
  • added About / Links / Webmaster / Google Submission
  • added About / Links / Webmaster / Yahoo! Submission
  • added About / Links / Webmaster / Live Submission
  • fixed About / Hot topics / Ask.com IQ link

Version 0.6.3 — January 19, 2009 — 49 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • changed menu name Traffic Analysis to Traffic to save space in the toolbar
  • moved menu Links to About / Links to save space in the toolbar
  • added "Search text for duplicates" function in Tools
  • Some corrections and improvements to Spider Simulator
  • created new menu Network and moved some functions from Misc
  • renamed Social Network to Social Media to avoid confusion with Network menu
  • fixed issues with variables separators (&) in urls (urls are now encoded)

Version 0.6.2 — January 6, 2009 — 49 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Social Networks / Youtube
  • added Profile / BuiltWith
  • added Misc / Spam Blocklist
  • added Misc / DNS Check
  • added Misc / Ping Test
  • added Misc / Proxy View
  • renamed the Internet Supervision, Geotool, Pingdom services in Misc menu to Network Performance, Geo Location and Page Loading Test
  • added Tools / Robots.txt
  • added Tools / Sitemap XML
  • added Tools / Error 404

Version 0.6.1 - November 28, 2008 - 47 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 - 3.0.*

Updated some icons and general revision to officially submit the add-on

  • Removed Profile / Cubestats: too slow, too many ads, similar to websiteoutlook
  • Moved Firefox Add-ons page link to the about dialog
  • Moved Misc / Netcraft to Profile / Netcraft
  • Moved Misc / SiteAdvisor to Profile / SiteAdvisor

Version 0.6.0 — November 23, 2008 — 44 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

New feature:

Tools / Spider Simulator:

  • strip a page from all styles, images and linearize content
  • highlight header tags (h1, h2, etc)
  • display image alt attributes
  • highlight tables, lists, forms
  • hide iframe, embed, object, frameset
  • show missing important alt attribute for images with links
  • highlight nofollow links in red

Version 0.5.6 — November 23, 2008 — 43 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added GNU license
  • reorganized google menu
  • moved Google / Google Trends for Websites to Traffic Analysis / Google / Google Trends for Websites
  • added Google / Google PageRank
  • added Misc / Copyscape
  • added Misc / Pingdom
  • added Misc / Internet Supervision
  • added Misc / Geotool
  • added Social Networks / Google Blog
  • added Profile / Quarkbase
  • added Profile / Cubestat
  • added Profile / WebsiteOutlook
  • added Links / Keywords / Google Sponsored Links
  • replaced Links / Keywords / Google Trends with Links / Keywords / Google Insights Search
  • limited google groups search to google groups only

Version 0.5.5 — November 14, 2008 — 18 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • changed logo
  • reorganized, renamed and sorted some functions
  • removed "www" in Yahoo! Site Explorer for sites
  • added quotes to the domain for Google Directory search
  • added google image search
  • added google news archive search
  • added Links / Webmaster / Google Webmaster Tools
  • added Links / Webmaster / Yahoo! Site Explorer
  • added Links / Webmaster / Live Webmaster Center
  • changed "Help" section title to "About"
  • added Links / Keywords / Thesaurus

Version 0.5.4 — November 4, 2008 — 19 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Links / Keywords / Keyword Discovery
  • added Help / Firefox Add-ons page for Foxy SEO Tool
  • added Social Networks / Google Groups
  • added Directories / About.com

Version 0.5.3 — November 1, 2008 — 18 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • added Social Networks / Myspace
  • added Social Networks / Twitter
  • added Social Networks / Yahoo! Answers
  • modified help menu
  • added about dialog

Version 0.5.2 — November 1, 2008 — 15 KB
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*

  • removed results from own domain in search engine domain search
  • added Misc / McAfee Siteadvisor
  • verified backward compatibility with Firefox 2.0.0.16

Version 0.5.1 — October 31, 2008 — 15 KB
Works with: Firefox: 3.0 – 3.0.*

  • fixed some localization issue for the french version

Version 0.5 — October 30, 2008 — 15 KB
Works with: Firefox: 3.0 – 3.0.*