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MetaTags Sidebar 2.3 for Firefox 1.5 is released! This browser sidebar shows page meta information (keywords, description, file size, etc.) It also has integrated search engine submission, keyword suggestion and analysis, search, What's related etc. tools.

See below for the list of features of amazing release 2.3 (download | download together with Firefox 1.5 Web browser).

This sidebar is specifically useful for search engine optimization (SEO), but has many other uses, such as finding Web pages related with the current Web page. (Try right clicking on keywords, and certainly What's Related in the menu.) Well, just see descriptions and keywords for pages you browse!

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• Supports HTML, XHTML, some XML
  and other document types.
• Displayed information:
  • Metatags (keywords, description, etc.)
  • Links (including stylesheets, shows link MIME type,
    direction, language, and also link titles in tooltips).
  • Title
  • Document language (accordingly xml:lang, lang
    attributes, and <meta name="Content-Language">
    element).
  • Base and base folder of the document.
  • Page size (Note 1: When you have turned off browser cache,
    it may be not displayed for remote (Web) pages. Note 2:
    Unlike all other values the size is displayed for the actual
    downloaded file rather than for currently viewed copy which may
    be out-of-date e.g. if the file on disk has changed.)
  • MIME type and charset.
  • DTD, root tag,
    and XML namespace of the document.
  • Last modification time.
  • Referrer.
  • Whether the browser is in strict error checking mode.
  • Other.
• Keywords features:
  • Keywords are numbered.
  • Warns about duplicate keyword phrases (marks them with red color).
  • Context menu for keywords. Has submenu to search the keyword with
    a search engine.
• Bookmarklets & Web services:
  • Forms are filled automatically, based on document metadata.
  • Extensible hierarchical menu of intelligent bookmarklets (well, two
    menus Submit and Services & Bookmarklets).
  • Several keyword suggestion and keyword popularity tools (both for
    the set of all keywords and for a particular keyword phrase using
    keyword context menu).
  • Search engine submission:
    • SEO services.
  • Furl.net keyword tagged bookmarks submission.
  • Related links (by Alexa and Amazon) and other Web services.
• Tabbed browsing:
  • Links can be configured to be opened in the same window, new window, or
    new tab.
  • Web services (such as SEO
    submission) can be configured to be opened in the new window or
    new tab.
• Visually marks these meta tags which are http-equiv (intended to
  be used as HTTP headers).
• Browser context menu for links in the sidebar. (Among other, it allows
  to copy URLs of the links to clipboard.)
• UI features:
  • Menu in the sidebar and in browser's Tools menu.
  • Buttons.
• Integrated with Live HTTP Headers Firefox extension.
• Optionally watches currently loaded Web page and automatically
  updates the sidebar.
• Integration with Web services:
  • Alexa/Amazon What's Related;
  • search engines submit and
    SEO services;
  • Furl.net keywords tagged Web bookmarks;
  • search engines.
• Is called out by a shortcut key.
• URLs are shown in the browser statusbar (on mouse over).
• Preferences dialog box.
• Other.