Firefox Plugins for Web Designers and Developers

Firefox is a very popular browser nowadays, especially among the designers and developers. Not only it is fast and comfortable to use, but also offers dozens of fruitful add-ons that every designer will appreciate, these Firefox plugins will make your work faster and easier.
Well, I’ve prepared a selection of the most helpful plugins that simplify the lives of many designers and developers.

Aardvark
This powerful selector utility selects elements. It will show the HTML element type and its class or id if they exist and let you do various actions with the selected elements like delete the element or set the element’s background to a random color for instance.

Firebug
This powerful plugin integrates development tools into Firefox thus allowing you to debug, edit and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript right in a web page.

HTML Validator
Shows the number of errors of a HTML page in your status bar. Very handy tool for developers

ColorZilla
This one is a great tool that lets you select any color you liked then adjust it and put in any other program.

Web Developer
This plugin adds a menu of various web development tools. It has window resizing options, validation tools for CSS, HTML and links and gives info on various objects on the page.

X-Ray
This Firefox extension lets you view a webpage code

Pixel Perfect
This Firefox extension requires Firebug and allows you easily overlay a web composition over the top of HTML you developed.

Total Validator
Great plugin that gives true HTML validation using the official DTDs.

Font Finder
This simple plugin identifies CSS details of the text you select. Gives such info as color, font, decoration, spacing and element details.

Window Resizer
You’ll find this plugin great for testing your web designs in different screen sizes. Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.

Do you use Firefox extensions in your work? If so, which ones do you find to be the most useful?

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2 Responses to “Firefox Plugins for Web Designers and Developers”

 
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    June 30, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Firebug and web developer are life savers! X-ray is pretty cool – I hadn’t tried that one before.

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