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The Best Firefox Add-ons For Web Developers

The reason for add-ons is to enable an individual’s browser functionality to be able to extend the normal reach.  Different add-ons have different tools, utilities, etc…Some enable you to monitor the amount of time you spend on the computer while others monitor social media statistics. Let’s look at the best Firefox add-ons for web developers.

Firebug

This add-on is so popular and useful for web developers that there are actually Firebug add-ons.  This add-on is a fantastic and trendy website design/front-end web development add-on.  An open source add-on, Firebug, provides for web developers extremely strong tools that will debug and inspect a web design. The add-on helps the developer with CSS elements such as a problem with a style ruler that is not rendering correctly.  Firebug will inspect the DOM thereby learning about the assembly of the web page leading to knowing the characteristics of things such as the width, color and height of the HTML elements. In addition to this Firebug can do many more things to assist web developers. Although a bit hard to learn, Firebug contains great and helpful support documents; trusting that it as an add-on that is deserved to be understood and used.

Web Developer

This Firefox add-on offers an enormous amount of web design tools that are loaded with extremely useful functions. The functions enable web designers to perform tasks plus more efficiently. Using it as it is without customizing it, there will be a toolbar near the top of the browser that offers you menus such as Cookies, Resize, CSS, etc…Web Developer allows the designer to very easily and quickly validate a website for W3C compliance or measure design elements. It also enables the developer to gain information about a website; information such as viewing all the attributes of images on the page.

MeasureIt

Time has proven this to be a fantastic add-on for web developers. Why when it only allows for one single purpose? Because it’s a vital purpose. This add-on provides a ruler that can be used on any web page for calculating and sizing elements of the web page. Web developers know that correct sizing of design pieces is vitally important this clearly indicates itself as an esteemed tool to add to your Firefox add-on collection.

CSS Usage

This Firefox add-on for web developers requires first having Firebug installed in the system as it is an expansion of it.  What this add-on does is to uncover unused CSS style rules. By identifying the CSS that is used and not used; it thereby points out the parts that are unnecessary and can thus be removed. This is important because it keeps your CSS files as light as it can be. And this is always a good thing for any web developer.

ColorZilla

Color is a tool that web developers are constantly working with. This Firefox add-on comes with what’s referred to as a “color picker.” It is somewhat like the one found in Photoshop. The tool contains an eye dropper enabling the developer to model and note the colors used on the web page. Clearly an important add-on.

Page Speed

Web developers know that websites that are slow to load are not good, to put it simply. Users want websites that load fast and totally. This add-on is a browser addition that will analyze a website or web page and tell you, the developer, where advancements can be made to speed up the loading of the website or page. Users also want the pages within the website to be and load fast, thus this add-on is a great tool for that as well. It tells you areas where pages load to slow and allows the developer to improve the loading speed of that page.

SEO Doctor

We all know that SEO is critical for any website or page. With this add-on developers can, while the HTML is still pliable and open to change, use this add-on to check the website or pages SEO. Providing the developer with a score between 0 and 100, it highlights the areas on the site or page that need to be and can be SEO. Another cool feature is that it allows for exportation of data for spreadsheets that enable further analyzing and logging.

HTML Validator

This awesome Firefox add-on for web developers quite simply tells the developer when his/her HTML is not well-formed making sure you develop it to top standards. It also checks for standards compliance with your markup. This add-on will indicate to you if it “sees” anything that isn’t right and it will tell you why so that you can update the code.

IE Tab 2

Web developers by the use of this Firefox add-on no longer have to worry about the cross-browser usage of their developing. With this add-on the user can view a page in Internet Explorer without leaving Firefox. Pretty cool, huh? The user simply right clicks on the website or page choosing “View page in IE tab” in the menu and presto.

Screengrab

A common duty of web developers is to take screenshots in the browser and insert them into websites or pages.  With this add-on the developer is enabled to take either full or partial page screenshots.  A developer can also copy the screenshot on their hard drive as an image file or even save it to their clipboard.

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Jason Kay is a website developer and marketer and enjoys sharing useful ways to help people promote their websites. He recommends using http://www.easywebsitebuilders.net to create your own professional looking website.

4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Mary

    January 20, 2013 at 11:30 am

    I am not familiar with most of these, however, I have used FireBug for about 6 months and I love it. In the past, every time I wanted to make a change, I needed to pay my web developer because I didn’t know which file to modify. Firebug quickly points out the code, and I can make the change without the costs.

  2. Julia Robert

    March 2, 2013 at 10:04 am

    Thanks for sharing this nice post.Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers in the world. One reason for its popularity is the more than 2.5 million important Firefox add-ons available to users.

  3. Rahul Sharma

    May 20, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    Looks like a great list, however most of the add ons are new names for me, I will try them soon.
    Thanks for sharing.

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