After linking to that highly entertaining but somewhat
inflammatorily named "Valentine's Day Massacre" post, I figured maybe I should put up something with a more,
um, positive spin. Surely everyone is not completely jaded about Valentine's Day.So, I would like to publicly profess my love for several Firefox extensions. They make my life as a web developer so much happier and easier, that I wonder how I ever trudged through web-developer-life without them.
- Web Developer - The absolute must-have extension for anyone who
builds web sites, no matter how small or few and far between.
- MeasureIt - No more eyeballing
pixel widths!
- ColorZilla - I shudder to
think back on the huge PITA of getting hex codes for colors before this lovely extension... taking a screenshot,
pasting it into Photoshop, using the eyedropper tool... how much time have I saved because of it? (Answer: lots.)
- FireBug - As mentioned on The Javascript
Weblog; just darn useful.
- IE View - All the maddening bugs of IE without actually having to launch the browser. (With the caveat that it doesn't do me much good on my Mac at work, where I don't have IE/Mac installed.)
- Live HTTP
Headers - Go along for the ride from user interface to server and back, making all local stops.
- EditCSS - Modify currently loaded stylesheets.
- Cookie
Crumbler - Convenient way to quickly clear cookies from a domain.
- Clear Cache Button - Another small convenience that makes a big difference.
Feel free to share your own favorites. Spread the love!








21. Clearing the Cache in Firefox 1.5+:
SHIFT + CTRL + R
Essential extension for Developers working on Websites:
ScreenGrab - Takes a png screenshot of the current page on Firefox. A COMPLETE screenshot, including all the content below the current viewport - in fact it actually scrolls the page and glues the all thing using Java, which can be slow at times but the result is a MUST for anyone working on the web... Has options to save just what you're seeing (viewport) or the window (like doing "Print Screen" on Windows).
Posted at 11:52AM on Feb 20th 2006 by Nuno Ferreira