Web Developer Firefox Add-on

Written by AJSPM on November 25th, 2009

Firefox is one of the fastest growing web browsers in the Internet Industry. Firefox can be downloaded for free from the Internet. There are a lot of add-ons which are provided by Mozilla firefox themselves and also by a host of other web developers and website designers like Cincinnati Website Designer which gives a powerful enhancement to the fire fox experience.

A browser add on is a program which facilitates a particular task which may be difficult to achieve with normal browser capabilities. There are different types of add ons for different purposes. One such type is a web developers add on. This is a must have add on for web developers. There are a lot of web developer add ons available for web developers using fire fox.

One of the factors that makes Firefox so effective is the huge number of add ons and extensions available. This makes for an enhanced browsing experience. Even though there is a massive list of add ons available for firefox users only some are most relevant to web developers. These add ons when used effectively will make your work quicker and more productive.

Below is a list of websites which offer web designer add ons for fire fox.

1. Web Developer is an add on, which adds on a tool bar with options for working with web pages.

1. SeoQuake: SeoQuake will help you in optimizing your web pages for search engines. It gives you a SeoBar that has loads of useful SEO-related options for you to take advantage of.

1. Window Resizer 1.0: Window Resizer can be used for testing different screen sizes and monitor resolutions

1. FireShot: FireShot is a Firefox add-on that creates screenshots of your web page. What is unique about this plugin is that it gives you a set of editing and annotation tools for working with your screenshots

1. Firebug: Firebug is the ultimate developer’s tool for Firefox. It provides you with a lot of web development tools to use from within your browser. It allows you to explore, edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript in real-time on any web page

1. Greasemonkey: The Greasemonkey Firefox add-on enables you to modify how a web page looks and works by using small snippets of JavaScript

1. FireFTP: FireFTP is a streamlined Firefox extension for uploading files to a server

1. IE Tab: This great add-on for web developers allows you to switch back and forth from IE and Firefox layout engines with a click of a button

1. Palette Grabber:  This add-on will build color themes that are exportable to popular graphic-editing software such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Fireworks, and Paint.NET of the web page you’re currently viewing.

1. Font Finder 0.5c: With this add-on, you can highlight any text on a page to find out CSS styling information about that highlighted block of text.

All the above tools when used extensively can add a lot of value to the wed designing process.

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