On 25, Feb 2011 | No Comments | In Browsers, Freebies, Web Design
50 Most Wanted FireFox Extentions For Web Geeks
by AndrewG
What browser do you use? Previously we have made a post about different Chrome extensions, now it’s Firefox’s turn to show off. If you used to work in Firefox and don’t want to give up, you will find the extensions of this post very helpful and useful. There is a great amount of functionality for web designers too. Hope that these extensions will help you to customize your favorite browser and give you some ideas to improve your own experience.
Autofill Forms
Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut
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BetterPrivacy
Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO’s on Google, YouTube, Ebay…
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CodeBurner for Firebug
CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
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Codetch
Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf.
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Color That Site!
Change the colors of web sites. With the move of some sliders, you change the foreground and background colors of a site.
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ColorfulTabs
The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface. For Seamonkey & Flock. An essential.
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ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies…
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Console²
Console? (pronounced Console Squared or Console Two) replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console. From v0.5 includes the Console Filter extension previously available separately from the Console? website.
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CSS Usage
Firebug extension to view which CSS rules are actually used.
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DOM Inspector
DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM can be navigated using a two-paned window displaying a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.
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Drupal For Firebug
Drupal for Firebug extends the Firebug module to provide Drupal specific debugging and status messages.
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Dummy Lipsum
Generate “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text (from http://www.lipsum.com).
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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…
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FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP/SFTP servers.
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FirePalette
Adds a color picker to Firebug’s CSS panel.
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Firepicker
Simple color picker plugin for Firebug.
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FireQuery
Firebug plugin for jQuery development
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FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part).
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.
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FireStorage
Displays the content of the HTML5 Local Storage for the current site.
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Flagfox
Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides a multitude of tools such as site safety checks, whois, translation, similar sites, validation, URL shortening, and more…
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Flash Killer
Remove with one click all the Flash contents of the current page, preserving space.
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Font Finder
FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.
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Font Replacer
Adds the ability of replace a font with another font.
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Foxy SEO Tool
A free, open source Firefox add-on that offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis, for webmasters and web professionals.
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FoxyProxy
FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities
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Google Toolbar
Share any web page with your friends
right from the Toolbar.
Contribute and read helpful information
on any web page with Google Sidewiki.
Translate web pages instantly
with automatic language detection.
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GridFox
Draws a grid on top of a website
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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.
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IE Tab
Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox…
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IE Tab 2
Yes, THE IE Tab! I took the open source original by PC Man, and updated it to be compatible with current versions of Firefox. If you are upgrading from the old IE Tab, it supports import of all of your existing settings.
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ImTranslator
ImTranslator includes Online Translator in 1640 language combinations for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese; Spell Checker for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian; TTS (Text to Speech) for English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish; Multilingual Dictionary for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish; Virtual Keyboard for more than 40 languages; Russian Decoder; Interface localization in 11 languages; other multilingual tools.
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JavaScript Debugger
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
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Live HTTP Headers
View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.
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Modify Headers
Add, modify and filter http request headers. You can modify the user agent string, add headers to spoof a mobile request (e.g. x-up-calling-line-id) and much more.
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Open With Photoshop
Open With Photoshop is a new companion for web and graphic designers to open up any web image with Adobe Photoshop via a single and quick mouse click.
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PHP Developer Toolbar
Stop searching at PHP.net to simply remember some function signature. With this addon you can search functions quickly for the official function description directly into your browser without a new tab.Plus,many tools to help PHP developers
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Pixel Perfect
Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML.
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Pixlr Grabber
Grabbing screens and pulling images from the web just got a bit easier. With the Pixlr Grabber add-on, you can copy, save, share or even edit your final grabs – including any image or background – with just a right-click.
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QuickJava
Allows quick enable and disable of Java, Javascript, Flash, Silverlight and Images from the Statusbar and/or Toolbar without having to open any dialogs!
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Screengrab
It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard. It captures Flash too!
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SearchStatus
Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
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SenSEO
SenSEO is an extension checking the most important on-page-SEO-criteria and calculating a grade of how good your site fulfills these criteria.
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SeoQuake
Seoquake is a Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet.
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Server Spy
Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (e.g. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites.
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Server Switcher
Easily switch between your development and live servers.
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Stylish
Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager. Stylish lets you easily install themes and skins for Google, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut, and many, many other sites. You can even customize Firefox and other programs themselves.
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Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser.
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WebRank Toolbar
A toolbar that gives Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast Rank, pages indexed and backlinks in Google, Bing and Yahoo. Bookmark webpages at PickMeWeb.com, view similar websites at SimilarSites.com. Delicious, Digg and Tweet Count.
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Yet Another Window Resizer
Resize browser window to default screen…
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MeasureIt
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
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