From the web developer Home page:

” The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.”

This tool is amazing.  It makes programming for the web MUCH easier, and MUCH more hassle free.  Basically it provides so many tools that once you discover them, you will use them all the time.

Some key features that I like:

•  Edit CSS
  • Allows you to see and edit all the CSS that is used on the current page, you can copy it and update your site CSS file from the code you updated and created
• View form information
  • Shows you all the parameters that are defined in the code for your form elements
  • Shows your hidden form fields
• View Passwords
  • Shows the text that is hidden by the asterisks in password fields
• Populate form fields
  • Will fill form fields with random data
• View Image Information
  • Opens a new tab with all the images from your page on it, with path information
• Find broken images
  • Opens a new tab with a listing of the broken images from your page
• Display Ruler
  • Shows a ruler, for you to  highlight a selection of the page
  • It will show you the position, width, and height of your selection
• Display Page Magnifier
  • Shows a square that you can drag around your page, inside the square it literally magnifies the piece of the page you are hovering over
• Outline current element
  • literally put a box around the element you are hovering over
  • also it will show you the css id/class path to the item
• Validate HTML
  • Click this and a new tab opens up with the w3c validator results about your page

 Web Developer Firefox Add On Page

Web Developer Home

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From the IE Tab Website:

“IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox…

 

This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.”

This addon makes life so much easier because it literally uses the version of Internet Explorer that you have installed in windows, inside the Firefox window, and allows you to switch back and forth. You can also set it to always open certain pages with the IE Tab already on before the page loads.

IE Tab

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 From the Firefox Add Ons Page:

“Add-ons are small pieces of software that can add new features or tiny tweaks to your Firefox. They can add new search engines or dictionaries in other languages, change the look of Firefox with a new theme, or much more. Take a look around and see what add-ons can do for you.”

Firefox Addons make firefox amazing.  There are so many awesome add ons.   Most of the addons I use help make my job easier.  Some of them can peer into the HTML, JavaScript, show me images, etc… I will list some of my favorites here in the blog later.

Firefox Add Ons

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From the Firefox website:

“The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.”

Firefox is an internet browser, similar to the functionality of The blue “e” that comes with windows, except that it works better, it is free, and it just better.

getFirefox.com

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