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.

 
 
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Friday, March 31 2006
 
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