14 Best Firefox Add-ons

Firefox is an open source, free web browser, easily extensible by add-ons of more than 12,000. It is however, difficult to choose new add-ons for developers and web designers because of the large choice. Below is listed some of the most useful and necessary add-ons for Firefox in a nutshell.

1. Firebug

While browsing, firebug enables and opens up a multitude of development tools at your disposal. You are able to operate in any web page as you can JavaScript, inspect, edit debug and monitor CSS HTML with ease.

2. Web developer

This web developer allows you to manage settings, display, and edit many things including cookies, images, CSS forms, site validation and outlines. By adding various web developer tools to a browser the web developer is designed for easy operation.

3. Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey enables you to customize a web page behavior or displays by using Java Script or other scripts including your own.

4. Screengrap

Screengrap captures what you see in the window. They could be an entire page, particular frame or a selection only. It captures any Flash or Java in a page for which the browser needs to be installed with Java. It also takes screenshots of web page and saves webpages images to the clipboard or a file.

5. IE Tab 2

By using an Internet Explorer in a tab within Firefox, this extension renders a website. This is easier for switching from IE to Firefox for developers who want to check their site in IE.

6. FireFTP

It provides intuitive and easy access to FTP servers as it is a secure, free and cross platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.

7. Colorzilla

Colorzilla is simple and essential as it assists with color related tasks with a color picker. It has a collection of other tools such as an eyedropper which enables color reading in your browser at any point.

8. Gridfox

By being able to place a customized Grid on top of any website, you have full control over the grid. It allows in creating and maintaining grid based layouts of various columns and row as well as pixel perfect.

9. MeasureIT

With a ruler, MeasureIT allows you to draw pixel width and height on a web page and is ideal for designers. However, there is no Google extension gallery and you need to restart Chrome after installing.

10. SenSeo

It calculates how well your site fulfills the criteria with on page SEO criteria with a SenSeo extension. It checks headlines, URL-Path, Domain and correct usage of document and is integrated with Firebug web development tool.

11. FirePHP

By using a simple PHP method call, the Firefox allows you to log to your Fire bug console. To use this plug-in you need to install Firebug 1.5+. Ajax development with cleanJSON and XML responses are ideally suited for FirePHP.

12. Session manager

The Session Manager allows you to open closed windows, tabs and restores the state of all windows whenever it automatically start-up, crashes or as you want it. You can create session for daily routine. It also saves the pages that you want to revisit later and can Group pages for news, social and financial networks.

13. All in one sidebar

The sidebar opens dialogue, bookmarks and history by opening various windows as sidebar panels. It can also switch between them quickly.

14. AdBlock plus

It can block out a whole range of ads or selective ads on the webpage. AdBlock Plus is supported by over forty filters subscriptions in many languages and enables customizing the filters.

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