The Elite 8 of Web Development
Monday, March 26th, 2007I was going over my Firefox extensions and realized something. It’s really easy to get carried away with extensions. I had about 25 installed and running - some that I had never used. Ridiculous, you say? I agree.
So I did a bit of cleanup and I’m happy to report the results. Seeing how March Madness is still going on, I’m proud to present my Elite 8 Firefox Extensions - in no particular order other than alphabetical.
Bookmark Sync and Sort is a Mozilla Firefox extension that lets you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time!
DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want!
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Tab Groups is a firefox extension that lets a user organize tabs into groups, those groups in turn can be switched between through their own tab bar. This extension is aimed at power users who have many tabs open on different subjects at once so that organizing these tabs coherently can become difficult. Windows are cumbersome to work with and tab placement is likewise less than ideal when the number of tabs makes their titles hard to distinguish. Currently supports FireFox version 2.0+.
Tab Groups is currently labeled pre-alpha and is at version 0.02, so no guarantees are made on it working properly however no “major” bugs are known of.
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
I know everyone has their favorites and I may have left off someone’s favorite. Are there other extensions that you guys use?