Firefox Addons For Web Designers and Web Developers

Essential Firefox Add-Ons For Web Designers and Web Developers

on Jul 31in Developers Toolbox tagged by james

Firefox presently is the best browser for web designers and web developers because of its enormous add-ons. This will make web designers and developers tasks easier and faster. Below is the list of Firefox add-ons that I used in my web development projects.

1. Web Developers Toolbar – This is one of the essential tool for web developers. It contains tools such as CSS displays, Edit Forms, Tools for mark-up Validation (W3C, CSS, HTML etc.)

2. Firebug – Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

firebug

3. IE-Tab – This is very helpful to web developers since you can easily switch between IE and Firefox. This is a great alternative for browsershots.org

IE-Tab

4. Color-Zilla – With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.

color-zilla

5. MeasureIT – Need a ruler or need to measure an element in an existing website. This tool will become handy.

measureit

6. Grid Fox – This tool is very ideal if you are using grid in your web design.

gridfox-screenshot

7. ScreenGrad – It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves web pages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

screengrab

8. Palette Grabber – Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page.

palettegrabber

9. Xray – One installed the X-Ray command is available by right-clicking as well as in the Tools menu. When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what’s beneath the surface of the page.

x-ray

10. url params – Shows you the GET and POST parameters of the current website in the sidebar.
You can alter their values, add new parameters, switch get/post and more.

url-params

11. Dummy Limsum – This extension generates “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text (the text is taken from the Lorem Ipsum site).

A context menu option (“Insert Dummy Lipsum”) is shown in the context menu when the cursor is in a form field (text field or text area). This option automatically fills this field with the dummy text. Simple and yet very useful tool.

dummy

So far, these are the Firefox add-ons that I used in my web development projects. Do you have other essential Firefox Add-ons that is not on the list? Feel free to include it in the comment section.