15.03.08

30 Must-have Firefox extensions

Here’s a quick review of some great Firefox extensions for web development, SEO and enhanced browsing. This list includes both time-tested extensions as well as brand new, yet powerful, ones.

#1 IE Tab

See how your page displayed in IE

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#2 Live HTTP Headers

View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.

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#3 Locationbar

More than a textbox.

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#4 Modify Headers

Add, modify and filter http request headers.

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#5 PageDiff

It helps web developers and designers to see HTML-code(text) differences between web pages.

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#6 Palette Grabber

Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, or OS X based on the current page.

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#7 SeoQuake

Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet

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#8 Table2Clipboard

Allows to select rows and columns from a table and copy to clipboard

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#9 Unicode Input Tool/Converter

Converts entities or character references (hex and dec) into Unicode and back

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#10 ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

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#11 CoLT

CoLT makes it easy to copy either a hyperlink's text or both the link and the link's text (in a format you specify).

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#12 Cookie Watcher

A tool to watch selected cookie in a statusbar.

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#13 Download Statusbar

View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

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#14 Extended Copy Menu

Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html.

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#15 Extension Manager Extended

Use the Addon Manager to view the id, date installed, and the folder of an extension or theme.

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#16 Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

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#17 FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

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#18 FireShot

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations.

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#19 GA? - Is Google Analytics Installed

This extension checks the current page you are on to see if Google Analytics is installed.

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#20 Web Developer

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

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#21 Wrap Switcher

This little extension allow switch textarea "word wrap" attribute from them context menu.

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#22 Firecookie

Firecookie is a an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser.

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#23 LoginManager

With LoginManager you can manage different accounts for different sites. You enter all information for a site once and then log in with just one click.

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#25 Image Zoom

Adds zoom functionality for images.

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#26 ShowIP

Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar.

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#27 View Dependencies

View Dependencies adds a tab to the Page Info window, in which it lists all the files which were loaded to show the current page.

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#28 FoxyProxy

FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's limited proxying capabilities.

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#29 OperaView

Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus. Very usefull for web developers but not only!

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#30 XSL Results

Display the results of an XSL transformation.

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Shane | 05.05.2008 at 14:13
Great list! Thanks!
Steve | 22.04.2008 at 08:20
Exciting review

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