In this post, I just wanted to enumerate a few Firefox add-ons that I thought were very useful in conducting penetration tests. I’d be really interested to hear what Firefox extensions other people are using for pen testing. So here it goes!
AddnEdit Cookies: This add-on allows you to easily add, delete and edit cookies in your browser. (http://addneditcookies.mozdev.org/) Unfortunately, the latest version does not support the newer Firefox 3, until the maintainer updates the package, I’ve edited the latest XPI to work with the latest versions of Firefox. A copy of it can be found here.
DT Whois – Allows quick domaintools.com lookups for the page you are looking at (http://www.beysim.net/dtwhois/)
Firebug – Allows you to read, debug and locally tweak HTML, Javascript and CSS...
