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Why Firefox Rocks For Web Development

Geoffrey on May 8, 2007 at 9:47 pm

Because my friend Matt was so impressed with a Firefox extension I showed him, I thought I would share some of my other favorites.

Wild West Railroad
photo by longhorndave

What Extensions I Am Using Right Now

  • Web Developer Toolbar – Just about everything you could want to do HTML and CSS, plus I can edit AND save the CSS changes I was playing around with.
  • Firebug – So much goodness. Especially debugging JavaScript and looking over AJAX requests and responses.
  • View Source Chart – Makes looking at HTML source bearable.
  • ColorZilla – a color picker for pulling colors off of web pages.
  • HTMLValidator – because it is too easy to miss a closing tag somewhere that messes everything up.
  • DummyLipsum – when you need some filler content.
  • SeleniumIDE – great little utility for helping to write Selenium tests for functional testing.
Big Thunder Mountain
photo by meshmar2

Not to mention

Got a favorite? I’d like to hear about it.

Filed under: CSS, Development Environment, Firebug, Firefox, JavaScript, Selenium, Testing, Web Applications, Web Developer Toolbar, Web Development, xHTML

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