One of the great things about the Firefox Web Browser is the ability to extend the capabilities of the browser via add-on extensions. The list below includes addons that can turn Firefox into a handy web development tool. Not only will these addons help improve your Firefox experience, they will also aid any web development task.
- Colorful Tabs – I often have multiple tabs open within Firefox. Colorful Tabs makes each tab a different color. I find the color cues help me differentiate and read my tabs mor quickly and efficiently.
- Diigo Toolbar – Diigo is my bookmarking tool of choice. It allows not only basic bookmarking, but can be used as a robust internet research tool.
- ScribeFire – This blogging tool makes blogging easier and more productive. I can blog directly from Firefox without having to login to the admin page of my website. Saves clicks and time.
- Down Them All – Great extension that enables easy downloading of files. Great all kinds of files: html, css, images files, audio files, movie files, etc.
- Web Developer – Probably the best Firefox extension developed next to ScribeFire. It alone makes many web development tasks easier. Examine a sites css file or view a website within images or display its HTML on the screen, all with this one tool.
- Total Validator – The best website validation tool around come in its own Firefox extension. Not only validates the XHTML code of your web pages, but checks for spelling errors, accessibility problems and takes browser snapshots. All for free!
- Font Finder – Ever come across a font on a website and wonder what it was? With Font Finder now you can know! Highlight and click is all it takes for Font Finder to display all the pertinent CSS information about the highlighted text.
- Measure It – This extension makes working with layouts and images easier. Use it to measure the wide and height of anything within your browser window.
- Split Pannel – Compare two web pages side by side in the same tab. Great for comparing information from two web sites or for comparing development and production versions of your web site. No more clicking and flipping back and forth and forget about resizing your browser so the windows are side by side.
- LORI – life of request info – Measure download speed and page size of every website visited.
- Search Status – SEO tool for gathering information about websites. View PR and Alexa rank along with backward links, indexed pages and internal link count information.
- SEO for Firefox – Know Thy Competition. SEO for Firefox provides PR, site age, del.ici.ous, yahoo, technorati, msn and google link info, plus other handy information all within the SERPs of Google and Yahoo.
- Clear Forest Gnosis – Find all the relevant terms and phrases on a web page. Great for assessing competition and taking advantage of Latent Semantic Indexing.
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