Of course there are awesome Firefox plugins that everyone needs to use. Anyone can find those. Recently however, I’ve been using several plug ins that make the status bar dramatically more useful. What part of the browser is the status bar? It’s usually the bottom of the browser, the part that reads “Done” when a page loads. It’s usually 20 pixels of wasted space sitting over your taskbar/window list.

I’ve found a string of plugins that has reclaimed that space and made it a much more useful space in my browser:

1. Delicious Bookmarks: If you need access to tagging and blogging bookmarks for your delicious profile, you can use this from the status bar to update your account from delicious.

2. Webmail notifier: Want to check your multiple web email accounts without having to log into each service individually? This sits in your status bar and tells you if you have mail. Added bonus, it works with Korean web email services like Naver. Score!

3. Google Reader Watcher: Do you have tons of RSS feeds? Do you use Google Reader? Then monitoring new articles can be annoying, but you can use this from the status bar to keep up on your feeds. WARNING: This wil DESTROY YOUR PRODUCTIVITY. Keeping up with feeds is really distracting.

4. Twitterfox: Twitter, that unproductive, utterly narcisictic waste of time. How could I amuse myself blogging at work without you? WARNING: This wil DESTROY YOUR PRODUCTIVITY. I only follow and keep up with Twitter because of the little “T” icon sitting in my status bar which seems to be saying, “People are talking! Waste more of your time!”

5. Fire.Fm: Fire.FM is the streaming service of Last.FM integrated into your browser. Do you like Last.Fm ability to find music from your preferences, and how you can listen to free music of related artists? Then you’ll love being able to do all of that without having to bother with the Last.FM site. Letting a music service pipe in music from bands I like while I focus on browsing? Sweet.

6. ForecastFox: Need to know the weather for the week and you don’t get cable television? Watch the status bar of your browser and let ForecastFox get your weather for you. I’ve installed this in the past, but had to uninstall it because it was messing with browser stability. I hope it’s improved since I’ve last used it.

Do you know any awesome Firefox plugins that use the statusbar? Share them in the comments below if you do.