I’m not a big fan of bloating up my browser with all kinds of different add-ons that are rarely used and that take my screen real-estate (by pushing down the viewable area from toolbars..err) but the following firefox add-ons are essential to my day to day web development:
FireBug + FireCookie + CodeBurner
Firebug is a great tool in itself and chances are your using it or have at least heard of it. If you haven’t, I wont explain much here other then to say that if you were only to install one plugin from this page.. this is it.
But that’s not all… Firebug becomes even more powerful with FireCookie and CodeBurner. FireCookie is great for the times when you need quick cookie information.
CodeBurner makes valuable reference material for HTML and CSS available right in your browser. This tool is freaking awesome when trying to figure out which HTML elements, HTML attributes, CSS Properties CSS Selectors or CSS at-rules will work in the myriad of different browsers out there today.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/ — Firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6683/ — FireCookie
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10273/ — CodeBurner
Web Developer Toolbar
Need I say more. Contains almost everything you would ever need while laying out and developing your website or web application.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/
Live HTTP Headers
View HTTP headers of a page while browsing… this is very useful when doing more advance things like debugging your web application development. It’s also a helpful learning tool to see how things are working under the covers of the HTTP Protocol.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829/
ColorZilla
Building a color scheme for your design often requires finding inspiration and color schemes in other websites that fit your vision. Colorzilla helps by providing you with color code data in a very fast and unobtrusive way.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271/
Please let me know in the comments if there are any other great add-ons that I could add to the list. I’m sure I have everything I would ever need for web development but as we know this industry moves fast and there’s always new tools for doing old and new things…
Cheers
