How would you like to be able to gain a ton of information about a web site, right from the status bar in Firefox?
ShowIP, an add-on for the Firefox browser, will deliver you not only the current IP address of a web site but a lot more helpful tools as well. By left-clicking on the IP address in your status bar, you can select to:
- copy to clipboard
- whois lookup at whois.sc and dnsstuff.com
- test timing
- traceroutes
- trace the IP to the country of origin
Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. If you need a tool to help you work with IP addresses and locations (as I know many web hosting workers out there do) this might be a good extension for Firefox to try.
You can pick it up on the Firefox add-on’s web site (just search for ShowIP).
