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Firefox Extensions for Just Folks.
You non-devs out there can find a variety of good add-ons for your Firefox browser.
- Forecast Fox is my favorite weather add-on for Firefox. It's infinitely configurable.
- Colorful Tabs will beautify your browser by 25%. It will give your tabs color, instead of that boring old grey that makes all the tabs look alike.
- Gmail Manager is my favorite Gmail add-on, though there are a bunch out there.
- Adblock Plus will allow you to block ads. Shocking, I know. You can block all kinds of over the top punch-the-monkey style ads, and those sneaky Beacon-style trackers.
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Firefox Extensions for Developers.
Firefox is my number one tool for web development. I could live without Dreamweaver, but not Firefox. In fact, syntax coloring in the source code viewer is the original reason I started using Firefox a few years ago. Once I discovered all of the marvelous add-ons and tab-based browsing, I switched from IE permanently. Here are many of the add-ons that I use for web development.
- There's the Web Developer toolbar, and Firebug of course. But you already know about those, don't you?
- View Source Chart is one of the most undervalued add-ons out there. Not only are the collapsible code blocks indispensable for figuring out what's going on with foreign code, but the Source Chart will show you the results of any JavaScript executing on the page. That's right - you get the source code; post JavaScript render.
- FireFTP - a fully capable FTP client, which can store settings for multiple. What more do you need?
- JS View gives you a list of all the external CSS and JavaScript files that are pulled in by a web page. This is a very effective tool for inspecting code, or figuring out what resources your pages actually rely on.
- Live HTTP Headers displays header information for webpages. That's the sneaky, secret webpage stuff like redirects, form submission info or status codes like 200 OK.
- YSlow will analyze webpages and recommend speed improvements. It requires Firebug, but all you developers have that installed, right?
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FireFox Lover.
I love the Web Developer Extension for Firefox. I'm particularly enamored with the DOM inspector functionality (Ctrl-Shift-Y). Then you can click on an element, and a new window showing what CSS affects that element will appear. It's brilliant. Of course that's only one thing the Web Developer toolbar does. It's cookie menu renders Cookie Culler obsolete, for my needs anyway. You can also submit your pages to the W3C for validation right from the tools menu. There's several other menus that I haven't even explored yet.
I have found a few other helpful extensions:
- Firebug: Great for debugging JavaScript, as it shows a useful error, and will take you right to the violating line. You can also edit the CSS right from the browser window, and see immediate changes. It has tons of other features - this extension alone probably deserves it's own O'Reilly guide.
- Source Chart Viewer: Ever wanted to view the source of a page after the JavaScript has done it's thing? This dandy extension will show you the post-render source code. And it comes in convenient collapsible blocks.
- Colorful Tabs: This add-on will prettify your browsing by at least 25%. It's so much easier to pick out your tabs if they have different colors.
- JS View: Yet another tool for get web pages to reveal all their secrets. This extension shows external .css and .js files and allows you to view them with just one click.