Best Firefox Plugins for Web Developers

29 Jul 2008 4 Comment

Ok so if you havent been sitting in a soundproof bunker for the last 5 years, you have probably heard of Firefox. And as a budding developer, I tend to use its extensive plugins to help me. Take a look at my best.

  1. Web Developer Toolbar – This is a fantastic tool that “Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools” such as viewing and editing CSS in browser (also editing html), Displaying the divs on a page, checking if the site is css and xhtml valid, disable and enable almost everything. This is the best for web design and development.Download Here
  2. StumbleUpon – StumbleUpon? I thought that was a social networking site. You would be correct but it is also a handy repository for finding articles about web development. Just add topics like css,php, etc to your topics and click Stumble! on the toolbar. the best thing in my eyes about this is that you can do it at your own pace, there is no rush, it is totally random and you can do it whenever your bored. Download 3.26 Here
  3. Colorzilla – Besides the american (wrong) spelling of “COLOUR”, this is great tool for when you dont want drag a screenshot into Photoshop to get a Hex Colour. Just clicking the icon will bring up an eye dropper cursor that allows you to find the HEX and RGB of a colour  in a flash. Download Here
  4. MeasureIt – Again to save time loading up Photoshop. Just click and drag and you get an instead x and y value of the length of the selection. Even works when you zoom in! Download Here
  5. This is a great site. Must have for all web-developers
  6. Firebug – This is probably one of the most useful addons you can get for Firefox. Showing Javascript errors, the structure of the HTML, shows you the JSON responses, the css of a particular element, and the loading time of a page, firebug is a great tool. This is a must-have addon for all Web Developers -Download Here

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  • http://www.itamer.com Sarah

    What about firebug – for me it’s the #1 web developers addon in my opinion. I’d be lost without it.

  • Lithos

    fireshot is good too, the screenshot one

  • http://pachume.com James Hogan

    Just installed colorzilla and measure it for the first time, I’d been starting paint.net as an alternate to photoshop because it loads quicker but this tool looks like it’s going o save me even more time. Thanks Sean keep up the good work, Oh, and you feed is totally coming to iGoogle with me.

  • http://miralize.com miralize

    Cheers James. Glad you like it