firefox add-ons

If for some reason you were born yesterday and have no idea what Firefox is, I highly recommend you download and install Firefox ASAP.

Firefox is a beneficial alternative to the web browser Internet Explorer, is open source, delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive, is leading the way in online security, and it is easy to personalize and make it your own with "Add-ons." The particular Firefox Add-Ons below are the ones I use and deem essential to any web developer. for a complete list of all add-ons, please click here.

reinvent your internet

StumbleUpon

Now that you've installed firefox, it's time to get caught up with the best three resources that web 2.0 has to offer and take advantage of them through your new browser. First and foremost is StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon lets you "channelsurf" the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn't think to search for. Please click here to Join 3,364,428 Stumblers & Discover New Sites.

Digg

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by their users. You won’t find editors at Digg — they merely provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and they're changing the way people consume information online. How do they do this? Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by the digg community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see. Click Here to get the Digg Firefox plugin and

del.icio.us/

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes... and access them from any computer on the web. You can share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community and to discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. So what are you waiting for? Install the Del.icio.us bookmarks plugin, and explore and enjoy.

useful firefox add-ons for web developers

ie tab in firefox

IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox... This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

save complete

As more and more sites use CSS, Firefox's built-in save functionality becomes increasingly less effective, as it doesn't support stylesheets. This extension fixes this, and saves the complete page, including all images and all stylesheets associated with the document, even imported stylesheets and images referenced in the stylesheet files. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

web developer

Adds a menu and a toolbar with essential web developer tools. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

k gen - keyword generator

Adds a menu and a toolbar with essential web developer tools. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

view source chart

Source Charting Allows you to quickly scan and recognize a document's tags without reading a single tag. You can see how deeply nested an element is just by looking to its left (no scrolling/finding/reading tags) and identify an element's containing tags without having to scroll, find and read each tag. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

font finder

Simply highlight a single element (e.g. a paragraph or a strong tag ), right-click and select `Font Finder`, then marvel as the full CSS text styling of the selected element appears. Click Here to install this add-on (website opens in new window).

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