Comments on: Six firefox add-ons for the web developer or designer

By: Kimberly Vlies

Kimberly Vlies — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:06:05 +0000

Great list! Thanks for starting this conversation. I don’t know how I could live without the Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug. Will definitely have to look into Firebug extensions. Will also try link checker and WASP.

Server switcher is a favorite of mine, too. Very quickly switches between live and staging locations.

I use MeasureIt from time to time, too.

By: Garrett Meiers

Garrett Meiers — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:01:15 +0000

Flashblock ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 ) is one of my favorites. It’s great to prevent flash animation from starting and heavy flash pages and allow you to focus more on the other content. Very handy if you are viewing pages over a slow Remote Desktop/VNC Link.

Also, DownThemAll ( http://www.downthemall.net/ )is another I use daily. It makes sucking down images, archives, PDFs, from web pages very easy. Lots of options for section and optionally renaming them on-the-fly.

By: Tim Kadlec

Tim Kadlec — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:36:38 +0000

No problem!

There’s a list of them on the official firebug site.

By: elightbo

elightbo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:41:57 +0000

Tim, I had no idea those firebug add-ons existed! Just installed all of them. Do you know of a site that references the firebug-based add-ons?

Thanks for the info!

By: Tim Kadlec

Tim Kadlec — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:17:50 +0000

I’ll second that if there was only one add-on I could use, it would be Firebug. If you haven’t yet, I would take a look at the plethora of Firebug-based add-ons as well. Tools like FirePHP, FireCookie, YSlow and CodeBurner all extend Firebug and are very useful.

I’ll have to take a look at the WASP tool. Looks pretty useful!