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Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers, because searching for errors and optimizing your pages can be pretty painful and time-consuming process. And that`s the reason, why I looked over 100+ pages, to get overview which add-ons are used and recommended by amateurs.
Web Developer`s tool bar probably will become one of the best plugins You`ve ever seen. It comes with his own tool bar that gives many useful tools for analyzing, validating and optimizing web-pages. The great thing about this plugin is that it’s on a few different browsers, so if you switch between them you will be able to use the same plugin on all.
Firebug is pretty similar as web developer, but it comes across with few different powerful options. You have an ability to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript right in any web page.
ColorZilla offers You an advanced eyedropper, colorPicker, page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
Little Firefox extension that enables you to draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width or height of a element.
This plugin displays the number of found errors of the site you are viewing. It adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla.
Pretty handy extension to see how your site is displayed at Internet Explorer.
YSlow, a Yahoo product, analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
This plugin completes FireBug functionality to make Firefox an unbeatable web development tool.
Allows you to customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript;
FireFTP is simply an FTP client built into the Firefox browser. Important thing it is free and you can flip to it just like any tab in your browser.
It allows you to view and analyze HTTP headers (requests and responses) in web-browser with several useful features built-in. It’s great tool for watching a series of HTTP requests and their result codes.
Screengrab saves entire web pages as images. This tool will allow You to take screenshots of what is currently on your screen – you can even choose the portion of the screen you want to “grab”!
StumbleUpon helps you to find new sites very easy.If you are a web-developer, StumbleUpon can drive a huge amount of visitors to your website.
Excellent plugin for all those, who like to watch statistics right into Google and Yahoo search results. You can get Alexa, Google PageRank, Tehnorati rankings and many other useful data. Plugin You can`t live without!
Adblock is an adblocker and really helps to get rid of unnecessary ads and banners, to browse web pages much faster.
Delicious bookmarks is official Firefox addon for del.icio.us. It integrates your browser bookmarks and tags, to keep them in order and “easy to find” way.
Not supported at Firefox 3.0
You can check out all the HTML tags right on the page without using the view page source option. Unfortunately not yet supported at Firefox 3.0
With this extension you can view CSS properties of related page elements. Very handy, when You got large CSS file with styles overlapping each other, to analyze why something is not displayed in the way You wanted.
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. Similar as del.icio.us.
This tool can be used to clean page from unwanted banners and ads, especially prior to printing a page. Pretty useful for web developers for analyzing the structure of a page.
If You always have many Firefox tabs opened at the same time, then you need to have this plugin. This plugin provides better management of these tabs.
Winner of the “2006 PC World World Class Award”, good choice for blocking JavaScript, Java and other executable content in certain pages You don’t trust.
Unhide Passwords is a tool for everyone who is bad at remembering or typing passwords correctly. It’s good for using at home, but shouldn’t be used at public accessible PC!
If you have ever had an image that was too large to fit on your screen or too small to see the finer detail in your browser or email, then image zoom can help. Image zoom gives you complete control of the size of most images displayed in mozilla based software. Both individual images or whole pages of images can be zoomed.
A powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations.
Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE.
This interesting add-on generates automatically “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text. I found it to be pretty useful as web designer.
Just highlight and right click to see all of the styling information you could require including font-size, font-family, color (in both hex and RGB), line-height, letter-spacing, and much much more..
Extension based on IE View. If you want quick view in opera, just right click somewhere on page and choose “View This Page In Opera”.
Provides true HTML validation (HTML 2.0 to XHTML 1.1) using the official DTDs, plus added attribute checking. So you no longer have to put up with the limitations of the W3C validator (no type checking) and tools like HTML Tidy which interpret the standards incorrectly (they don’t use the official DTDs).
Also performs accessibility validation (WCAG, US-508), broken link checking, spell checking (5 languages), and takes screenshots using 32 browsers on Windows, Linux, and OS/X.
A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type.
Truly a time saver if You’re experimenting with the CSS style of your site. Avoids the modify,save,upload,refresh,repeat cycle.
Full-Screen, 3D – PicLens transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for finding and viewing online photos and videos.
Work on : YouTube, Google Images, Flickr, FaceBook, Myspace, Photobucket and more..
Validates a page using the W3C RSS Validator.
Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab.
Not supported in Firefox 3.0
A powerful extension to minimize Windows versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, and Nvu to the system tray.
Shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup. Very useful to help navigate between many tabs.
Not supported in Firefox 3.0
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Server Switcher is a navigational help tool for web developers. It allows you to easily switch between sites on your development (hosting the temporary version you are currently working on) and live servers, so that you can immediately see the differences.
Smart Bookmarks Bar modifies the bookmarks bar to show bookmarks icons only.
Bookmark names will be displayed on mouse over. This feature can be disactivated if you just want icons without the rollover effect.
Not supported in Firefox 3.0
Tired of that boring default icon next to your bookmarks? This extension adds a interface allowing you to pick the icon for each of your bookmarks.
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
Stylish is a Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, and Songbird extension that allows easy management of user styles. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. My personal one of favorites.
Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a website from your browser. In addition to that you can save your modifications as a Greasemonkey script to make them “permanent”!
Very beautiful addon – automatically changes firefox tab color and makes easy to distinguish one from another.
The Browser Window Resizer is useful for testing different screen sizes.
Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.
Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut.
Saves and manages frequently-entered text for later pasting into Web page forms in Firefox or email and newsgroup messages in Thunderbird. Pasting a clipping is accomplished with just two mouse clicks, eliminating the hassle of retyping or repetitive copying and pasting.
So that`s all folks! I hope You will find those links useful, personally I did!
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 12:10
Would much rather use FileZilla than the Mozilla plugin FireFtp. FireFtp is tool skimmed down, the UI looks ancient…who cares if it’s not in the browser, use FileZilla IMO.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 12:07
Why the hell would anyone be using the Web Dev toolbar when there has been Firebug for the past several years? Don’t even list the Web Dev toolbar, it’s pointless.
Sunday, October 9th, 2011 00:54
Very helpful list of developer options! Thanks for posting!!
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 19:29
woooooow amazing tools for firefox, i like so much this entry, saved on my bookmarks =D
Monday, June 29th, 2009 16:32
Great list dude ! Tks
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 19:17
these all are really great tools
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Monday, April 27th, 2009 20:38
fantastic list, as another comment says above this has to be the best article written about FF addons around – Good job!
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 12:51
Useful post…
I added some of them.. I already had some..
thanks anyway…
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 20:15
Good article.
Added to my arsenal of Firefox plugins
Monday, December 15th, 2008 00:47
Nice list, but let’s be fair: some plugins (like Piclens) are nice but not really that important to webdevs.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 07:24
Good list. A couple of them I thought were a bit of a stretch.
I think Firebug deprecates a few on the list
e.g. HTTP Headers, Any CSS addon, Font Finder, etc.
I never knew about X-ray, may add that to my collection. I would be scared to see the X-ray of some sites though. :-x
I might try Server Switcher, but I think editing the host file is just as easy.
Nice to see you included Selenium IDE, I don’t think enough people know about or use it.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 05:55
Great list, and thanks for including X-Ray. :)
(X-Ray is now available for Firefox 3)
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 02:54
Try HTTPfox instead of Live HTTP Headers.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 14:28
The best firefox extensions list I’ve come across yet, thanks
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 09:21
This list is amazing, i already had firebug, developer tool, fireftp, tabmixplus, but i found in this article more valuable add-ons, thanks and continue with the great job
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 01:20
I like the way you set up that your info is the homepage, nicely done. Thanks!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 15:46
Very nice article, some useful addons. Thanks! :)
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 15:48
Thank You, Daniel! You can check out for SEO plugins too, if You are interested! :) Good luck using `em!
Monday, September 1st, 2008 07:55
Hi,
This is certainly the best Firefox Add-on article I have ever come across. Complete (Atleast I think so)
Qool!!!
I have found most of them as really required for my work.
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Monday, December 15th, 2008 00:47
Nice list, but let’s be fair: some plugins (like Piclens) are nice but not really that important to webdevs.
hugmenot
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 02:54
Try HTTPfox instead of Live HTTP Headers.
Stuart Robertson
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 05:55
Great list, and thanks for including X-Ray. :)
(X-Ray is now available for Firefox 3)
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The Floating frog
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 14:28
The best firefox extensions list I’ve come across yet, thanks
Alberto Villalobos
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 09:21
This list is amazing, i already had firebug, developer tool, fireftp, tabmixplus, but i found in this article more valuable add-ons, thanks and continue with the great job
shweta
Monday, September 1st, 2008 07:55
Hi,
This is certainly the best Firefox Add-on article I have ever come across. Complete (Atleast I think so)
Qool!!!
I have found most of them as really required for my work.
Dainis Graveris
Monday, September 1st, 2008 08:07
Big thanks, appreciated! Use them well!
Dainis Graveris
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 15:48
Thank You, Daniel! You can check out for SEO plugins too, if You are interested! :) Good luck using `em!
Daniel15
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 15:46
Very nice article, some useful addons. Thanks! :)
Tr0y
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 07:24
Good list. A couple of them I thought were a bit of a stretch.
I think Firebug deprecates a few on the list
e.g. HTTP Headers, Any CSS addon, Font Finder, etc.
I never knew about X-ray, may add that to my collection. I would be scared to see the X-ray of some sites though. :-x
I might try Server Switcher, but I think editing the host file is just as easy.
Nice to see you included Selenium IDE, I don’t think enough people know about or use it.
Tr0ys last blog post : Easy Collapsible FAQ with jQuery
Dave
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 12:10
Would much rather use FileZilla than the Mozilla plugin FireFtp. FireFtp is tool skimmed down, the UI looks ancient…who cares if it’s not in the browser, use FileZilla IMO.
Gedeon N
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 19:29
woooooow amazing tools for firefox, i like so much this entry, saved on my bookmarks =D
Shay
Sunday, October 9th, 2011 00:54
Very helpful list of developer options! Thanks for posting!!
Dave
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 12:07
Why the hell would anyone be using the Web Dev toolbar when there has been Firebug for the past several years? Don’t even list the Web Dev toolbar, it’s pointless.
Denis
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 20:15
Good article.
Added to my arsenal of Firefox plugins
Ostap
Monday, February 8th, 2010 01:14
Great article!
I use more of these add-ons!)
Pradeep CD
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 12:51
Useful post…
I added some of them.. I already had some..
thanks anyway…
Sam H
Monday, April 27th, 2009 20:38
fantastic list, as another comment says above this has to be the best article written about FF addons around – Good job!
Sam Hs last blog post : Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa: What the papers say
Sulumits Retsambew
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 19:17
these all are really great tools
Sulumits Retsambews last blog post : Is sulumits retsambew an alien?
Horhe Bucuresti
Monday, June 29th, 2009 16:32
Great list dude ! Tks
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 01:20
I like the way you set up that your info is the homepage, nicely done. Thanks!