Firefox Add-ons ☀
Since I mentioned Firefox Add-ons in a previous post, thought I’d share my specific selections with all of you in the giant global graph (GGG).
Firebug — A web developer must have. Nifty Javascript debugger, CSS inspector, logging and the ability to execute Javascript on the fly. An improved error diagnostic tool, too. The inspect tool is incredible, enabling you to breakdown an HTML / CSS element and see exactly what rules are in effect.
Colorzilla — Next to Firebug, my favorite add-on. It plops an eyedropper icon on your status bar that like in Photoshop or the Gimp, allows you to ascertain the RGB HTML color code for any matter on the loaded web page. Also, a zoom tool, color picker, and palette tool are provided.
del.icio.us — Just adds del.icio.us button icons to your browser toolbar that are located (at least on my boxes) next to the “goto home page” button icon. Saves the setup of a bookmarklet, but also grants one click access to your del.icio.us bookmarks (again, saving you another bookmarklet
Download Helper — Places a little icon to the right of your browser address bar, and permits one to download videos from web sites. With increasing use of javascript to fire off custom players, unsure if it’s worth it, given the potential spybot factor…
Palette Grabber — Not sure I’ve ever used this tool, or perhaps I have and falsely surmised that it was a feature of Colorzilla
SearchStatus — Displays Google PageRank and Alexa ranking and provides a link to the respective summary pages. Also, probably a spy client too…
FireFTP — Real programmers don’t use FTP GUI clients, but I wanted to sample before recommending to lesser tech endowed colleagues and family.
DOM Inspector - A GUI inspector to reveal the structure and properties of a browser fetched “document”.
Talkback — I believe this one comes bundled with Firefox… …it sends program crash information to Mozilla.
Of all these listed, only Firebug and Colorzilla are essential to my work. And I have a hunch that those two are also responsible for the intermittent Firefox crashes that I suffer…
