This tool is already available (click for download) for one week or something, but I installed it today. It took a long time before there came this plugin for FireFox, but it is finally here and looking good. When I visit a website I first check at my google toolbar what pagerank it has. I don’t know why I do this, maybe because I am a webmaster hehe 
Now I can also see the alexa ranking for the websites I visit. I know alexa rank is not accurate but a site under 50,000 alexa is receiving some decent traffic, that is for sure! The alexa rank is showed in the right bottom of the firefox browser.
This tool is small and smooth. These stats are from my webmaster forum by the way. I hope to get the alexa under 100,000 next month. This blog is currently at 116,000 which is not bad, but far away from good.
With this toolbar you also get an extra button next to help, Related Links. This is nothing special and I don’t use it. I checked for some of my sites which related links it was showing, but it showed: None available. Only for the big sites like Google it is showing related links.
After all, this is a great tool and I recommend everyone to download it and install!
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July 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Ive been using it for 3 or 4 days now and I must say I really like it. Previously I had used another plugin which showed pagerank and alexa but having alexas own one with the graph shows the changes in a sites traffic
Hopefully now your readers will install it and push up your alexa
July 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Yes Glen, I hope it to hehe
July 29th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I really like it as well, downloaded it a few days a go. I actually just checked mine for my blog, and I went from 6.7 million to 4.2 million in the span of less than a week. I don’t think that is bad for a new blog like mine.
Also, if you don’t mind a shameless plug, I compiled a list of all the FireFox plugins I downloaded.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Thats cool !! I hope it will drop more At The Bottom !
July 30th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Hey you just got tagged for the Geek Train!
http://www.fleeingthesocialscene.com/2007/07/29/oh-noes-tagged-again/
July 30th, 2007 at 5:59 am
It’s working great for me
I installed it last week. I also look at the PR of each page I go to…it’s just a habit now
July 30th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Correction, its not a toolbar. Its just an extension that takes yet another more space from Firefox’ statusbar.
Dunno if I have any use of this extension
July 30th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Why use this rather than the existing one for Firefox? The existing one covers Google Page Rank, Aleaxa and Compete.
July 31st, 2007 at 8:45 am
finally! gonna start browsing some of my own sites now
July 31st, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Your right Wai, it is not a toolbar, my bad.
Ehh, Steve, did you use the plugin on I.E.?
July 31st, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I use the Alexa toolbar on IE and the older (not-Alexa) plugin for FireFox. I almost never use IE, only when designing websites.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:29 am
Its strange though that they named the extension as a Toolbar
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 am
The release of Alexa for firefox made a lot of webmasters happy becasue they can now boost their own rankings [without using those 3rd party extensions], since most of them use firefox. It is also good for Alexa because they will surely get more users which will make the stats a little more accurate, its a win-win situation.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Yup, win win situation
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
I’ve been waiting for this one a long time. Evrybody is talking about it now. It’s normal.
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:15 am
I installed Sparky last week on my PC and it looks great. A lot of webmasters were looking forward to the Alexa toolbar for FF
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I probably wont add another toolbar to my browser. I am running the Stumbleupon one and that seems enough as it is. However, I do find the Alexa toolbar promising this time around.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Its a great tool, I’ve been using it for the past few days. I love how its in the bottom corner. Very unobtrusive.