Originally posted on March 28, 2006 @ 10:55 pm
I’ve been using Mozilla’s Firefox browser for close to a year since the early beta versions. One of the things I really love about Firefox is the ability to add extentions which help enhance browser performance… uh, that sounds like some of the spam I receive… tee hee, enhancing performance.
Anyway, back on topic… I really like Firefox Extentions and I’m going to share a few of the ones I really like and use daily.
HTML Validator (based on Tidy): HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
Web Developer extension: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
IE View: IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments, particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that’s actually interesting, when I need to see what things look like in IE.
ColorZilla: 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.
So there you go, just a few of the Firefox extentions I use during my work day. There are others but I’ll save them for another post :)