Would you mind making a great browser even better? Well, I guess I know the answer... Especially if you're an avid keyword researcher and you've run into one of the few shortcomings that Firefox has, i.e. how it handles copying tables.
Basically, if you try to copy a table from Firefox into Excel (for example, results from Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery or any other service), you will be greatly disappointed to discover that all rows and columns get pasted into... one cell in Excel. And I guess you do not feel like copying them one by one.
Well, extension to the rescue! Just download and install the really excellent TableTools extension and you will be able to do all sorts of nice tricks with your tables in Firefox. First of all, you can easily copy them as comma separated files which can be easily pasted into Excel. But this extension is so much more powerful. Let me quote directly from the description:
TableTools sorts, filters or copies any HTML table. Two filtering modes supported: select filtering (each column has one drop down menu allowing you to select a certain value); search filtering (each column has one search box allowing you to search for any value in the column using keyword(s) or javascript regular expressions, very powerful and flexible!).
The other extension that I find extremely useful in my keyword research (or any research in general) is ScrapBook. Basically, it just allows you to save any page locally in its original form, including css styles, javascript, etc. You can also search all saved pages - all from within Firefox. It's very helpful for example when you want to save results generated by the keyword bookmarklet - you will still be able to use the word map after saving results locally.
Please watch the embedded video to see both of these extensions in action.
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