Firefox Extensions For Web Developers
- Seoquake - Seoquake is one of the most powerful tools available for analyzing your website’s Search Engine Optimization results. It will help you determine what your Google PageRank score is, how many pages on your site are indexed, how many external sites link to yours, similar statistics for Yahoo and Live.com, your Alexa ranking, your del.icio.us vote count (for specific pages), and mountains of other data.
- ColorZilla - Have you ever seen a really interesting color on a website and try to find out what it is? ColorZilla gives you the ability to simple use a “color picker” to mouse over the desired color and capture it’s hex value.
- Alexa Sparky - Another traffic analysis tool, brought to you by Alexa, Amazon.com’s traffic ranking service.
- Session Manager - I keep many tabs open on my Firefox sessions at all times, and if my computer has to restart or if something crashes I can lose potentially valuable information if I am unable to find those pages again. Session manager automatically saves your sessions and in the event of a crash or a reboot it can restore all of the tabs in the session for you.
- IE View Lite - There are a lot of developers out there who wish Internet Explorer would either accept the W3C standards or just go away, but unfortunately a large portion of Internet users are Internet Explorer users. IE View Lite allows you to right click on any given page and gives you the option to view this page in a new Internet Explorer window. IE View Lite is a powerful tool for cross-browser testing and validation.
- FireFTP - FireFTP is simply an FTP client built into the Firefox browser. It’s free, it’s simple, it’s reliable.
- Greasemonkey - Greasemonkey is arguably the most powerful Firefox extension. Greasemonkey allows you to apply custom JavaScripts to pages within your browser; for instance there are scripts to declutter your Facebook homepage, hide Gmail lables, and hide Netflix reviews.
- Download Status Bar - When I download Wordpress plug-ins for my blog, I usually do so in intervals of 3-5 plug-ins at a time. I use Download status bar to give me instant access to my completed downloads without having to hunt them down using Windows Explorer.
- StumbleUpon - While I don’t believe in spamming social tagging sites in everyway possible, I always make sure I am the first to submit my own articles to StumbleUpon. Why? Because the first StumbleUpon review is crucial to getting the correct demographic to view your site, since the categorization of the “stumble” occurs during the first review instance. It’s better that you, the author of the site, write the first review and categorize it accordingly, rather than put it in the hands of someone who may be viewing your site for the first time. In addition StumbleUpon sends more users to your site on average than Digg does, according to ProBlogger.
- Extended Cookie Manager and Cache Status