Hoovy’s Essential Firefox Extensions
No doubt all you web designer/developers have heard about the impact of Internet Explorer 7 will have on the web. We dread what it might mean for style sheeting (are they going to be standards compliant?). So we’re probably going to stick with Firefox for the time being.
Anyway, here’s a bunch of firefox extensions that make the entire web design/development process easier:
Web Developer - The essential web designer/developer extension. You can’t call yourself either unless you have this.
MeasureIT - Get the exact height and width of any element with this handy little nugget of gold.
Del.icio.us - There is another Del.icio.us extension floating around but this one is the best.
GSpace - Lets you upload content to your Gmail account, acting like an FTP program. The coolest feature without a doubt is being able to add .exe files (although I can’t imagine Google liking that)
ColorZilla - Now you don’t need to ‘print screen’ and then paste into Photoshop to grab the colour information. And the extension fits nice and snug at the bottom left of the browser.
And finally… this isn’t a firefox extension but I thought I’d throw it in here anyway since I’m talking geek and all. If you MUST use Internet Explorer, then choose the Maxthon browser instead (PC only). It runs on the IE engine but uses tabbed browsing, pop-up blockers, RSS support, skins, etc… I use this browser at work to test my pages in but it’s a much better alternative than the plain Jane IE anyway.
12 Responses to “Hoovy’s Essential Firefox Extensions”
By all reports IE7 is looking great. Microsoft actually hired a bunch of peeps from the Web Standards project to make sure that IE7 is standards compliant.
There’s a blog on it’s development here: https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx
Developer toolbar is awesome. Two other extensions that i dig are:
IE Tab and DTA.
Yeah I guess this article made me think otherwise (although whether it’s true or not remains to be seen).
The actual article doesn’t sound as bad as the Dig poster made out. It’s not like every web page has to be rewritten, just that if you have flash [or shockwave etc] and don’t update yr code users will be asked to click on an ‘i agree’ box before they can interact with the flash.
I know. People on digg can be dramatic. But if IE developers make 7 more standards compliant, then it’ll make our jobs much easier.
Yeh, in about 5 years time when we can finally stop supporting ie
Doh, my comment was cut off because i used an angled bracket. What i actually said was:
Yeh, in about 5 years time when we can finally stop supporting ie[less than or equal to]5.5.
At work sometimes we still have to support Mac IE, now THAT’S painfull.
I wonder how good the Firefox HTML editor is? I have found many that are good, none that are great.
I love the Web Developer toolbar. Use it all the time. And i taught a couple of CSS classes last week and pimped it even more. It’s become invaluable.
Is there anyway on the Web Developer toolbar to add in presets? That would be cool if you can. For example, not just having the view the page at 800×600 but other dimensions aswell? (I realise you can enter it in manually but if you could add presets that would be cooler)
Who still has their screen rez at 800×600? Get wif da program, homie!!800×600 don’t impress da bitches. :D
“True. None of my honnies up in the crib use 800×600. We all be kicking it new school”