Mozilla Firefox can truly be called king of Browsers at-least for Designer community. Other browsers lag behind when compared to features and plugins offered by Firefox. You will hardly face crashes thus making it widely popular among masses.
Today we are featuring 15 must have Firefox Plugins that will make your work faster and easier. Add more functionality to your browser.
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Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser thus saving precious time of developers in searching for various Plugins.
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NoScript
We all have worries regarding security in a web browser.With NoScript, you can keep your worries at a bay as it allows active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
Console²
It replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console.
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Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar Plus
Developers bookmark many things every day but only 7 or 8 bookmarks are displayed by default. Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar Plus display your Bookmarks Toolbar in more than one row. You can also auto hide the Bookmarks Toolbar.
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Personal Menu
Personalize Firefox Button in Firefox 4 and change it to your personal and powerful one.
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UI Fixer
Change location of Status Bar Icons, Firefox Menu Button and Menu Bar and more.
Rainbow Color Tools
It has Color picker and eyedropper + saving colors and trying out colors with drag and drop.
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Mason
This extension can simplify the rule to just specify the URI and Content type and can enable/disable each rule separately.
Backlink Explorer
Back link check for a domain or URL, to analyze the off page SEO.
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WiseStamp
Empower your emails with your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blog post, eBay item and many more productive email apps…Create powerful & effective email signatures that do the job
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse.
CoolPreview
Preview links and images without leaving your current page or tab. Just mouse over any link, and a separate preview window appears to show you the content.
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Google Shortcuts
Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving drop down menu next to your address bar.
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View Source Chart
It inspects the DOM at lightning speed and you can check it at a glance or can zoom it for better view
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DownThemAll!
It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 4x and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.
For optimal social media connection: “Shareaholic”
SEO overview: “Webrank Toolbar”
And a Gmail notifier!
I would recommend FireShot screen capture since it captures the image of the full website. Its very useful when u have to just show quick changes without uploading stuff to server :)
It’s cool to see that I have almost all plug-ins listed here. The only plug-ins that I must have now that I didn’t have before are WiseStamp, DownThemAll! and Mason.
I use 3 of them. WiseStamp in free version is very useful
Recently, Firefox updated. When Firefox updated, Firebug also updated. Firebug crashed. I keep on thinking that I set it not to update automatically, but it seems to do so anyway whenever a new version comes out.
Firefox v. 9.0.1
I currently do not have the latest version of Firebug installed, because it does not work. (as of Jan. 30th 2012 or so, right after 9.0.1 released). They updated automatically. I just got rid of it, so I’m not sure what version it was… but that info.
Any advice, or know anything of that plugin?
i’m only using one! must be falling behind the times
I have been using Firefox as my personal-choice web browser. And these plugins will surely enhance my “user experience”. Thanks for sharing.