The Great Firefox Extensions for Web Designer

The Firefox browser now become famous and widely used by many internet users and because of the various number of free plugins and extensions it offers. The following are some of useful and great extensions for web designer and web development, and available for immediate download…

Codetech, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1002/ ? web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing extension for anyone doing web design that doesn?t want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.

FireFTP, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/ ? free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. This eliminates a piece of software for those of you who use a separate program for FTP.

SEO for Firefox, http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html ? pulls useful market research data right into Google?s and Yahoo!?s search results, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS, and more. It also adds a few helpful links to the top of the search pages, including Google Trends, Google Traffic Estimator, and the Overture View Bid tool.

HTML Validator, http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ ? validates web pages to the W3C HTML standards with a simple green check in the corner of the page if the page validates, a red check if it doesn?t, and a yellow exclamation point if there are warnings. It also includes an enhanced view of source code that allows you to see where errors are within the code.

FireBug, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ ? an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.

Professor X, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2823/ ? lets you view header information without having to view source code. The page ?slides? down and Professor X shows you the contents of the page?s head element, including Meta, Script and Style content.

AdSense Preview, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2132/ ? 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.

IE Tab, http://ietab.mozdev.org ? sick of swapping between Internet Explorer and Firefox when testing out a web page you?re developing? With IE Tab you can view Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab!

NikkelWHOIS, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2646/ ? view the WHOIS information for any page by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.

Server Spy, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/ ? indicates what brand of HTTP server (Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited site on the lower-right side of the browser.

Server Switcher, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/ ? easily switch between sites on your development and live servers by clicking the switch server icon.

Screen grab, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/ ? takes a screenshot of the webpage 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.

Yet Another Window Resizer, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2498/ ? allows you to resize browser window to default screen resolutions.

Adsense Notifier, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/500/ - Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

SeoQuake, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3036/ - Quick view of site parameters in the Search Engine Results Pages SERP(Google, Yahoo, MSN, Yandex, Rambler are supported). Some IP and domain tools are included.

StumbleUpon, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/138/ - StumbleUpon lets you channelsurf the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting webpages you wouldn’t think to search for.

More Firefox Addons, come and visit: https://addons.mozilla.org/