Web Accessibility, Web Design - Written by DezineHQ Team on Monday, June 16, 2008 13:19 - 2 Comments

10 Best Firefox Add-Ons for Web Designers

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I happened to stumble upon a section in Wikipedia that compares different browsers. According to the site, a huge majority of folks out there use IE… something like 75% of Internet users!! What??? Firefox is oh-so-much-better. And now with the help of add-ons you can get Firefox to do almost anything. Have you tried using Firefox for web design and development? If not, you just have to give it a shot. Believe me, you won’t regret it… in fact you’ll be asking yourself how you lived without it till now!!

Font Finder - With this, you can highlight text on any page, right click on it and select “Font Finder.” This will give you all the styling information for the selected portion.

OperaView - With this, you can view web pages on Firefox as you would view them on Opera.

Python Sidebar for Mozilla - This can be added to your Firefox sidebar and lets you make quick reference to Python commands.

Web Developer Toolbar - This offers you numerous tools, such as disabling features on a web page, disabling all cookies, disabling external site cookies, deleting domain cookies, adding cookies and editing the CSS of a web page in a sidebar in real time.

YSlow - This allows you determine which section is making a web page load slowly.

Aardvark - Through highlighting, this tool allows you to identify HTML element type and its class or id just by moving your mouse over the web page.

FireBug – This helps you debug JavaScript, HTML and Ajax code snippets.

Total Validator – This tool helps you to check HTML and links as well as take screenshots.

Codetech – This allows you to edit web pages on Firefox as if you were working on Dreamweaver.

ColorZilla - Colorzilla helps you to choose colors that can be adjusted and placed in another program.

Here are some more add-ons that I found at Mashable:

• Another 16 Firefox Add-ons For Web Designers
• 30+ Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers & Designers

We’ve got a dozen suggestions to get you started down the road of turning Firefox into a powerful design and development tool in your arsenal.

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