10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers
Posted on 03. Apr, 2010 by Martin PWPH in General
Here is a list of ten excellent Mozilla Firefox add-ons that would come in handy for web developers.
ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Palette Viewer and other colorful goodies for your Firefox. [Link]
Greasemonkey – Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. [Link]
Load Time Analyzer – The Load Time Analyzer allows developers to measure and graph how long web pages take to load in Firefox. [Link]
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. [Link]
CSS validator – Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. [Link]
Screengrab – It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame. [Link]
LinkChecker – Check the validity of links on any webpage. [Link]
IE Tab – This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. [Link]
Aardvark – Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements), for making the page more readable, and (most appreciated by web developers), for analyzing the structure of a page. [Link]
Html Validator – HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. [Link]
If you know of some great Addons for Firefox that we should know about please let us know via the comments form below!





