Mozilla Firefox, a well known browser and most powerful tool at present and by using right add-on, certain things becomes easier for web designers and web developers, like finding errors on pages sometimes will be quite time consuming and pretty painful process and these add-ons comes as a real time saver, stress reliever which might help you out and few of them will be helpful in measuring dimensions, choosing colors, and optimizing the web pages.
There is a plethora of add-ons and extensions out there that can enhance your browsing experience and make your workflow productive and quicker. Now the question arises, how you will choose the best add-on out there from the huge list of library of add-ons? No need to worry, this article will provide you the list of most used and valuable add-ons needed for web designers and web developers.
Aardvark
Cooliris
CSS Viewer
Console2
Codetch
ColorSuckr
CSS Validator
Code Burner
Dummy Lipsum
Edit CSS
FirePHP
FoxyTunes
FireFTP
Firebug
Font Finder
Fasterfox
GridFox
IE Tab
IE View
iMacros for Firefox 6.3.1.1
JS View
JavaScript Debugger
Live HTTP Headers
Link Checker
Load Time Analyser
MeasureIt
NoScript 1.9.9.30
Paletter Grabber
Poster
Platypus
Pixel Perfect
PageDiff
Pencil
RSS Validator
Server Switcher
ScrapBook
Screengrab
Shareaholic
Tab Mix Plus
Total Validator
Window Resizer
W3C Offline Page Validator
X-Ray
YSlow
This list will help you out in selecting the best add-on according your needs and requirements and in the end i must say that “Firefox is more than a browser, it’s a toolbox waiting to be filled with tools (i.e., add-ons) and they will make you love to play with them“.
Note
These add-ons will be helpful but using too many add-ons will slow down the performance of the browser. So, it’s a suggestion that you use only selective add-ons as per you needs.
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tricks tips says
simply superb one….
Great list of resources….
shared in Twitter and SU tooo…cheers
WebGuide4U says
Glad you like the list. Thanks for sharing the love on twitter and SU 🙂
Nandan | TechFlu says
Nice compilation, CSS viewer and code burner are very helpful for designers and developers.
WebGuide4U says
Welcome to WebGuide4U. Glad you like the useful firefox addons.
CSS viewer is really an handsome tools which will do your work in couple of seconds
Anil Kumar Panigrahi says
Thank you for sharing such a use addons which are very useful for me while developing websites . . .
WebGuide4U says
Glad you like these add-ons