Best Firefox Addons for Web Development

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Firefox has a enormous collection of add-ons that can entirely change the way you surf the web. If you’re a web developer, you will be glad to know that many of these are add-ons are built with you in mind. I’ve been using some of these add-ons and decided to compile a list with the best Firefox add-ons for web development. However, if you are a web designer, check the best Firefox add-ons for web design.

Firebug

Firebug is by far the most popular web development tool for Firefox. It provide powerful tools to edit, debug, and inspect HTML, CSS and JavaScript live in any web page.

• Install from Mozilla website
• Visit author’s website

CodeBurner

CodeBurner is a superb companion to Firebug Firefox add-on. It integrates seamlessly with Firebug extending it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

• Install from Mozilla website
• Visit author’s website

YSlow

YSlow is another excellent addition for Firebug Firefox add-on. It checks the performance of web pages based on the rules set by Yahoo and report back how can you make it faster.

• Install from Mozilla website
• Visit author’s website

Web Developer

The Web Developer add-on is quite popular among web designers and developers. It has some useful tools to develop websites.

• Install from Mozilla website
• Visit author’s website

FireFTP

FireFTP is a quite effective FTP client add-on for Mozilla Firefox. It’s fast and extremely easy-to-use.

• Install from Mozilla website
• Visit author’s website

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