Comments on: Six Essential Firefox Extensions For Web Designers

By: David Peers

David Peers — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:43:20 +0000

This blog aided me somewhat in narrowing down some problems with the latest release candidate, Why do they often leave out vital information when they upgrade? It may be minor to them but not for us! I’m sure i’m not alone either.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:31:55 +0000

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.

By: thetoast

thetoast — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:37:49 +0000

I can’t believe firebug has only been mentioned once. Then again, the page is titled web designer and not web developer. Out of the ones mentioned firebug for me is the one i can’t live without.

By: ChrisC

ChrisC — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:16:39 +0000

Lesson for Craig: just because you don’t see a use for something doesn’t mean other do not.

Once you get deep in to CSS and implementation design to website systems, you’ll find Colorzilla, Measureit, web dev, dom inspector all extremely useful.

And then you will discover Firebug… which is enormously useful. View a dom tree of the page, click on any element, see the html structure, what css is being applied, in what order, see computed value, make changes in real time – great for both debugging and developing.

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» FireFox Extensions - Web Designer ToolsThe Far Blog — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:08:32 +0000

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By: Mike Hopley

Mike Hopley — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:28:57 +0000

Web Developer is shockingly useful. I’m surprised that anyone could fail to see its uses; here are some I use frequently:

– Quick disable of Javascript
– Quick disable of styles
– View color information (to check I haven’t introduced an extra, similar color)
– View document outline (tells me whether my document is structured well for screen readers or keyboard nav in Opera)
– Unvisit links
– Several of the Outline options, but especially outline current element
– Resize window (viewport)
– Validate local HTML (the HTML tidy extension is better for constant background validation, but it’s not the gold standard W3C validator)

And then you can reset all those options with one toggle.

WebDev extension rules :D

By: Brownspank

Brownspank — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:54:03 +0000

Craig: Ok, so the Colorzilla isn’t for everyone, but being into CSS coding is all the more reason to have Web Developer extension installed.

I cannot tell anyone enough how useful this particular extension is. I can investigate in detail my CSS-based layouts and “debug” any display inconsistencies, emulate image-disabled or javascript-disabled browser experiences, check out how my site looks at different resolutions, display information for each element, edit CSS “on the fly”, quickly validate my code… the list goes on. :)

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:08:30 +0000

@Craig

I use the color picker all the time, it’s very useful imo, for all sorts of things, as is most of the webdev toolbar, the CSS changer, the image info, the resize tool, Outlining elements etc. are all really great when web developing imo.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:41:51 +0000

Since I do all of my CSS coding in TopStyle Pro and it has a brilliant color picker system, there’s no need to use an external app. The funny thing is, why would you ever want to color pick while you are using Firefox? I’ve been designing professionally since 1992 and never once have I ever wanted this functionality. I just don’t get it. The only time that I ever use color picking is while coding CSS or desiging in Fireworks. They both have excellent color picking features.

TopStyle Pro and Fireworks are all I’ll ever need.

The Web Dev extension is pretty useless to me too. The only reason why I use it is because the Mozilla team took out the CSS switcher icon in the status bar of Firefox and removed support for it completely. The Web Dev extension has the nice CTRL SHIFT S feature. Everything else is just fluff.

By: Smiley Cat Weblog

Smiley Cat Weblog — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:18:15 +0000

Aardvark Firefox Extension Available for FF1.5…

At last! I just discovered that Aardvark, my second favorite web developer Firefox extension after the Web Developer Toolbar, has been updated to work with Firefox 1.5. You beauty!……