Firefox Addons (preferred set)
August 12th, 2008
I’m a web developer, though most of my current paid work will only be seen on corporate Intranets.
I still want the best page possible, so most of my Add-ons are web development tools. Most.
This is as much a reference list for when I have a new setup as a pat on the back for developers of these add-ons. Thanks!
- Firebug
- The de-facto web development tool. Highlights include; Dom inspection(for catching what Firefox is interpreting you page as, updates with ajax calls), rendered style information (including whwere the css is), and network transfer info (is that generated image a 500 Server error? or a 404 Not Found?)
- YSlow
- Developing on your own workstation is not a good testing environment - in terms of users’ speed. Yahoo’s Yslow gives ratings and tips of how your page could be improved in this aspect. Requires Firebug.
- Adblock Plus
- Of course I don’t want to deal with ads. However, there is always the option to temporarily disable ad blocking, if there is an actual problem.
- AVG Safe Search
- Disabled. Enough said.
- No, wait - why can’t I uninstall this?
- Web Developer Toolbar
- I always end up dragging the the contents to the Bookmarks toolbar to save screen space. Highlights include: Disable cache, Display Form Details (on same page), View form Information (in a new tab), Replace images with ALT attributes, presets for window sizing, shortcuts for html validation (Ctrl+Shift+A is the best)
- Abduction!
- Better than “Print Screen”, because it will take a shot of the whole webpage (no scrolling issues). Only problem is that it does not seem to work on embedded items (like Adobe Flash) - but as I no longer have to deal with flash, this is not my issue. (this statement was true as of version 2.026)
- Foxmarks
- A centralized server to keep your bookmarks on, and an add-on to integrate it with Firefox. The only plugin that is worth a login (hey, you want your bookmarks behind a password, right?)
- Video DownloadHelper
- Detects those FLVs with pesky dynamically generated names and allows you to save with somthing more sane. Hey, if there is no way to protect my content on the Internet, why should they get to protect theirs?
- Google Reader Notifier
- I was using Firefox’s built-in “live bookmark” functionality when I had only a dozen rss feeds to check. This is obviously a step up.
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