Useful Firefox Extensions
My friend and colleague Sumanth who is an ardent fan of Firefox and Firefox extensions presented to everyone on some fantastic extensions that helps a web developer. This post is dedicated to him as I borrowed from him the extension list, descriptions and the link.
- IE Tab - Browser compatibility is the biggest challenge a web developer would face. This extension will help in opening an Internet Explorer browser instance within Firefox browser.
- Web Developer - I had already posted about Web Developer firefox extension.
- FireFTP - Smart FTP browsing within Firefox. The extension comes handy when you want to ftp the files to a hosting server.
- Customize Google - This extension gives ability to search in other search engines apart from Google from within the page.
- Session Saver - Opera browser lovers would love to have this. This stores the state of the web sites open. Say I have opened 10 web sites in individual tabs within firefox. I close Firefox, come next day and I want to retain wherever I left, open Firefox, voila are there where you left!
- Del.icio.us - Easy social bookmarking from within Firefox.
- Cool Iris - Gives preview of web sites on mouse over of a link in the page.
- ScrapBook - Take notes from within Firefox.
- Morning Coffee - Collect your favorites you want to open up the first thing in the morning. On click of a button you have them opened up.
- Advanced Dork - Highlight a keyword in the page and right click to search that keyword with several filter options.
- FEBE - Take backup of all the firefox extensions, bookmarks and cookies.
- JSView - Provides view of all the javascripts including the ones that are linked.
- View Source Chat - Formats the page showing the HTML, CSS highlighted with easily viewable interface.
- URLci - Similar to Tiny URL. Comes handy when you want to link large URL’s like Amazon’s.
- Colorzilla - Scroll over on any part of the page and it displays the color code in RGB and Hex format.
Sumanth was unstoppable when he took the session. What I have listed above were few of them that I felt will really help developers.
Rich Said,
June 25, 2006 @ 9:14 am
If you are really doing webdevelopment, you need firebug.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/
If you use more than one PC, give Google Notebook a try instead of scrapbook.
http://www.google.com/notebook/
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Cadman Said,
June 26, 2006 @ 3:03 am
Regarding #5: Opera can save sessions. Also, one can duplicate Firefox’s Session Saver extension behavior by deliberately terminating it’s process instead of closing it down the correct way =P