It’s worth choosing carefully which extensions you install, since too many of them will definitely slow down Firefox and use up memory. Here are the ones I rely on every day:
Firebug. Simply the most indispensible tool for the web developer. One of those rare applications that you love more every time you use it.
FireFTP. Not only will I never need a standalone FTP application anymore, but this actually outperforms any I’ve ever used.
Tab Mix Plus, mainly for the Session Manager. I typically have 3-4 FF windows open, one for each project or aspect of a project, and many tabs in each. It’s imperative that I retain this from one day to the next. Session Manager can reload the last session, or the one before that, or save any number of sessions to a particular name.
Web Developer toolbar. Before Firebug, this would’ve been #1. A lot of its functionality is supplanted by Firebug, but it still has many useful tools and some handy keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Ctrl-Shift-S Toggle CSS, Ctrl-Shift-E Edit CSS and Ctrl-Shift-A Validate HTML. It’s also great for evaluating accessibility.
Netvouz buttons. This is my online bookmark manager. For why I use it instead of Del.icio.us, see my comment (the 5th one) on this review.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic. I need it for one simple reason only: making snapshots of web pages longer than the screen. The basic (free) version creates a PNG on the desktop; the pro version will copy the snapshot to the clipboard.
ColorZilla. It has a lot of functionality that I don’t use, but I find it the quickest way to read colour values off web pages. (I’d need Photoshop open otherwise.)
What are yours, and why?
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I use SQLite Manager. Good tool if you are working with SQLite databases.
Cheers,
Janus
View Source With. Easy right click to put the page HTML into your favorite editor.
Fasterfox. Enough said.
User Agent Switcher. Useful for sites that insist on using IE.
Add N Edit Cookies. Useful for Deleting specific cookies while deleting others or editing a cookie.
Foxmarks for synchronising my Firefox bookmarks to a remote internet server, and Facebook Toolbar for Firefox, so I have to spend only a minimal amount of time on the actual site getting annoyed!
Posted on behalf of Nick Haley:
Does Bugmenot still work most of the time? I stopped using it over a year ago as it just seemed to fail more often than not. Also thought it’s fairly easy for websites to keep ahead of it.