Web Developer Firefox Plugins
By Diona Kidd on Feb 28, 2008 in Technical
I just cleanly installed Mac OS X 10.5 tonight. Once I installed Mac OS X 10.5, the first thing I did as a web developer was to install my favorite Firefox plugins. Here’s a list of my essential plugins, what are yours?
>> what are yours?
I end up using IE7 most of the time these days
because of Visual Studio (and MathML was builtin
to Firefox 1.5), so I have only the DOM Inspector.
That’s a nifty collection… thanks.
Scott Corcoran | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Hi, I saw your post on the charlotte.pm mailing list (I have yet to make it to a meeting). Here are my essential plugins:
* Firebug
* YSlow
* Google Browser Sync
* del.icio.us bookmarks
* Web developer
* User Agent switcher
I’ve also started using two bookmarklets, one that includes jQuery in the page and one called Jash that provides a cool javascript command line. These should work in IE as well and are great to test snippets of js code in a page.
Kevin Bosak | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
I use all that Kevin Bosak uses except for Google Browser Sync. I also use:
* Greasemonkey
* Stylish (like Greasemonkey for CSS)
* SearchLoad Options
* Screen Grab (full page screenshots)
* Paste and Go 2
Kevin Old | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
* FireBug
* Web Developer Toolbar
- Built-In Ruler
- Built-In color swatch thingie that dumps a whole page’s palette
- Built-In DOM Iinspector
* AdBlock!!!
- I use just plain adblock, not adblock plus or anything
Other than that I have a very skinny bookmarks toolbar that has a couple of del.icio.us-like bookmarklets to post urls/stuff to my site, and a folder of my favorite daily sites (middle click on a bookmark toolbar folder opens all urls in tabs!) and another folder of the top forums I read on SomethingAwful.
Mike Walker | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
I second Web Developer and would like to add:
* Add N Edit Cookies
* ChatZilla (though I’ve moved on to use irssi)
* ColorfulTabs
* del.icio.us
* Unwrap Text (great for wrapping urls and street addresses)
One of our developers wrote a custom plugin to display our on-call schedule in the bottom of firefox. We love that one.
Thanks for the other ideas, will have to go check them out. –bradoaks
Brad Oaks | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Forgot this one because I don’t use it much, but it could be handy:
It’s All Text
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
Kevin Bosak | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Here’s what I have installed:
Firebug. Totally essential; I don’t know how I managed to do my job for so many years before I got this. For debugging, it’s a must-have.
Web Developer. I don’t use this as often as I used to after getting Firebug, but it does let you to easily clear domain cookies and turn off JS. The ability to view the generated source is very handy when doing AJAXy stuff.
Live HTTP Headers. Not used very often, but when trying to debug cookie stuff, it’s great. Sometimes you just need to know: is it me, or is it the server?
I don’t use YSlow, but it looks pretty handy — I’ll have to give it a try.
Eric Folley | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Wow, there are so many good ideas in these comments that I will have to explore. Eric, thanks for reminding me about LiveHTTP Headers. It’s All Text looks really handy for working with our CMS because it uses textareas for editing pages and I’m often copying and pasting into a text editor. I also just installed Screen Grab. Nice one, Kevin Old!
How handy is Grease Monkey? Is anyone using it a lot?
Diona | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Greasemonkey is extremely useful and there’s http://userscripts.org/ - plenty of scripts for popular sites. I’ve have a few for Gmail that suppress labels, one that shows additional “hot keys/help menu”, and another to put icons beside file types (pdf, txt, images, etc) that are attached to emails.
Kevin Old | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Noone else uses ServerSpy? It’s not really essential, but I love seeing what versions of what servers everyone uses right in the status bar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2036
View Source Chart is handy sometimes if you aren’t running webdeveloper.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655
Jim | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Hey I already used few of the plug ins except Better Gmail 2 and Color Zilla. I am quite benefited with it. I would like to suggest all the Web developer to use these plug ins.
Web developer | Mar 24, 2008 | Reply