Flagfox :: Firefox Add-ons: "Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website's server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information."
NOTE: I'd originally hoped to review "TwitterFox," but I've spent the past week trying and failing to get it to work properly. To be fair, I can't tell if the issue is with the extension, with the Twitter service, or perhaps even something in my account settings-- so rather than write a bad review, I decided to pick a different extension. If you are currently running Twitterfox, drop me a line-- I'd like to hear what your experience with it has been.
Quick Review: Thumbs up; works as advertised.
Details: It's called the WORLD wide web for a reason-- because web-serving devices can be located anywhere. At its simplest this extension, displays a county flag up in the address bar that corresponds with the geographical location of the web server. You go to a page hosted by a server in the UK, you get to see the Union Jack. You go to a page hosted by a web server in the United States, you get to see the American flag. Sometimes, you get a surprise and discover that servers you assumed would be located in one country, are actually co-located in another.
The preferences for this extension reveal more sophisticated capabilities-- by default, a left mouse button click will open a new tab with lots of interesting geographical information courtesy of geotool, while "middle clicking" will invoke a WHOIS search. You can override the middle click function with your own custom action as well, by entering in a URL that makes use of macro variables.
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