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My Favorite FireFox Add-ons

January 29th, 2009

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I am a web developer and SEO professional, and use a variety of desktop and online tools to get the job done including Mozilla Firefox. It’s the premium web browser used by most of web professional, but very few comprehend that by installing some of the many free extensions/add-ons, they can get rid of most of the other applications they currently use. Below are my 9 favorite extensions for web:

FireFTP – is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. You don’t need a separate program for FTP, very handy.

Professor X – lets you view web page’s header information without having to view source code. It displays the contents of the page’s header, including Meta, Script and Style content.

WHOIS Lookup 1.1 – View the WHOIS information for any page easily and quickly by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.

IE View – If you frequently use Internet Explorer to test how your website renders on that browser,tThis add-on allows you to view the way any page would look if it were opened in IE, without the hassle of opening another browser.

WebDeveloper toolbar – This all-in-one toolbar provides you swift control over things like JavaScript display, form and CSS elements, screen resizing (so you know what your website looks like in smaller resolutions), HTML validation, and much more.

AdSense Preview – preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting the ads up just to see what type of ads will show.

Screen grab – It takes a screen shot of what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image.

MeasureIt – You can use this to draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements you see on a webpage. It’s very simple to use, and of course very helpful at times.

Gspace – This turns your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) into an online drive, so you can use it to upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet enabled computer.