A list of Firefox extensions that are useful for web development.
- Aardvark (remove elements of a page, can view tag type/id/class)
- Add N Edit Cookies
- Codetch (WYSIWYG editor)
- ColorZilla (colour picker)
- Console² (JavaScript Console Replacement)
- DevBoi (web development documentation reference)
- EditCSS
- Fangs Screen Reader Emulator
- FireFTP
- FireBug (DOM Inspector + JavaScript console)
- Greasemonkey
- Html Validator
- Hypertext DOM Browser
- IE Tab
- IE View
- IE View Lite (smaller download than IE View, by almost 10x)
- JavaScript Debugger
- LiveHTTPHeaders
- LoremIpsum Content Generator (generate filler content to test web page layout)
- MeasureIt (onscreen ruler)
- Modify Headers
- MozRef Sidebar (a reference for the Mozilla DOM)
- OperaView
- Screen grab! (save entire web page as an image, requires Java)
- Table Inspector (show accessibility feature on tables)
- Tamper Data (view/modify http headers)
- User Agent Switcher (for those sites that block non-IE users)
- View Cookies
- View Dependencies (show you file sizes for all files loaded in one go)
- View Rendered Source Chart
- Web Developer Extension (best extension there is for developers, far too many features to mention)
- XPather (feature rich XPath generator, editor, inspector and simple extraction tool)
- XPath Checker (interactive editor for XPath expressions)
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August 29th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
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August 30th, 2006 at 6:19 am
The DevBoi link should be https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1673/
Nice summary list, thanks! I use or have used nearly all of these, and the only one I might add is “View Dependencies” http://mozilla.queze.net/ , which can show you file sizes for all files loaded in one go.
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September 15th, 2006 at 6:40 am
please add greasemonkey to the list.
September 20th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Good List,
You can include extensions like pasteEmail, Firefox Extentios Backup Extension.
I do mention about these useful extensions in my blog.
YOu can check here for more details here:
http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/2006/04/mozilla-extensions-1.html
http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/2006/04/mozilla-extensions-2.html
http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/2006/06/mozilla-extensions-3_16.html
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February 10th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Well done.
What about adding XRefresh ?
This tool will refresh browser automatically during development (it monitors filesystem changes in particular working directory).
http://xrefresh.com
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