The Web Professionals Guide to Firefox Add-ons

The Web Professionals Guide to Firefox Add-ons

I use a ton of tools to do my job, like most web developers or SEO professionals. Desktop and web applications use a mix – some purchased, some free. Everyone I know has downloaded a free copy of Mozilla Firefox, yet few of them understand with some 1,500 free extensions they can get rid of most of the other software they’re now using. Here I write down my 13 favorites extensions for web professionals (no proper order):

HTML Validator 

(http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/) – Validates pages to W3C HTML standards with a quick green check in the page’s corner if it does, red if it doesn’t and yellow exclamation point if there’s warnings. It includes an improved view of source code that enables you to locate where errors sit in the code.

FireFTP

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/) – a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that allows access to FTP servers easily and intuitively. That removes one piece of software from the table for those of you who use a standalone program for FTP.

Professor

X (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2823/) – allows you to look at header information in the internal server code without having to look at the source code. Now, Professor X displays the contents of the head element of the page, including Meta, Script and Style content.

NikkelWHOIS

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2646/) –check the WHOIS data for every page just by clicking on the button in the upper-right corner of the browser.

IE Tab (http://ietab.mozdev.org) – tired of having to jump between Internet Explorer and Firefox while testing a web page you’re developing? IE Tab – View Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab!

FireBug

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/) – a powerful debugger console that allows to track your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.

Codetecth

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1002/) – a web page editor with a Dreamweaver feel. An incredible plugin for any web designer who doesn’t want to shell out hundreds of dollars on Dreamweaver.

Server Switcher 

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/) – toggle live switch server icon to see your site on live server or development server.

SEO for Firefox

(http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html) – brings helpful market research data straight into Google’s and Yahoo! to find domain documents, secrets, page rank, age, and total, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS and more. It also adds some useful links to the tops of the search pages for Google Trends, Google Traffic Estimator and the Overture View Bid tool.

Yet Another Window Resizer 

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2498/) – Resizes your browser window to common screen resolutions.

Adsense Preview

(https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2132/) – preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. That zeroth mode is particularly useful if you're thinking of placing AdSense on a page but want to avoid the work of signing up for an account then placing the ads just to see what kind of ads come up.

Screenshot Page 

Saves a screenshot of the webpage as image file (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/) This saves me a lot of time compared to the way I used to do it – take a screenshot, then open and crop the image file in Adobe Photoshop.

Server Spy

 (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/) – Shows lower-right side of the browser that what brand a HTTP server (Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on that site.

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