September 13th, 2008

5 Most Popular Firefox Web Development Extension

 

My primary reason of using Firefox, besides that it is a great browser, is the extensions. I’m so dependent on these extensions that I can’t even imagine developing and designing a website without it.

Here’s my Top 5 extension list:

1. Firebug

I think I use everything what this little extension has to offer. Console, source code inspect, DOM, Network monitor.

http://getfirebug.com/

2. HTML Validator by Marc Gueury

It validates your HTML code. It’s a must if you want to code by web standards. It uses 3 different algorithms for validation HTML Tidy, SGML Parser and Serial. Now don’t get fooled by the Firefox add-on page, it says it can only be installed on Windows platform. No! It supports other platforms too: Mac OS X PPC and Intel, Linux both 32 and 64 bit and OpenBSD.

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/download.html

3. Web Developer Toolbar

Although it’s a secondary tool in my case, it has invaluable features like: browser window resize, external CSS, HTML, Section 508 and WAI validations, disabling Javascript and cookies, measuring page elements.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

4. ScreenGrab!

I use it for taking large screen shots of web pages that I can send to my clients. It can copy and save visible areas, whole web pages and selections. It’s the best extensions for taking website screen shots.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

5. ColorZilla

Grabbing color codes from websites it’s very useful. For ex. I visit a website and I want to check out the hex code of a particular color, now I can do this easily with this extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

Bonus

Here’s 2 more extensions for Firebug itself.

Firecookie – it’s a cookie manager for Firebug.

Rainbow for Firebug – it’s a Javascript syntax highlighter. Very good.

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4 Comments

  1. liv
    on Saturday 13, 2008

    Great list… I didn’t know about Colorzilla… That could be quite handy.

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  2. Amit
    on Saturday 13, 2008

    FirteFTP!! This is one of the best! As a developer I was struggle with all FTP software open extra window and jumping between all of them was a hassle. Since I start using FireFTP my life become easy and speeding up my developing was a great thing to do!
    Thanks Amit :smile:

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  3. Gyorgy Fekete
    on Saturday 13, 2008

    I got another extension for you. CodeBurner for Firebug

    This extension is absolutely essential!

    Reply