Five Useful Firefox Addons for Web Developers

There are a number of useful tools available to web developers, both on-line and on-board. Some of the most convenient, however, are those that rest on the toolbar, or are integrated into the right-click menu. Here are five outstanding FireFox add-ons that you might want to consider adding to your arsenal.
 

  1.  Quirk SearchStatus 1.33

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321/
 

SearchStatus is an unobtrusive icon on your taskbar, which you can right-click when visiting a webpage, and view information such as meta tags, link report, Archive.org data, WhoIs, robots.txt and sitemap.xml. You can also highlight all nofollow links on the page, view keyword density, highlight keywords, show all indexed pages, and all backward links. Additionally, it allows you to place indicators on the taskbar for PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank and mozRank. It consumes very little memory, and provides a wealth of information.

 

  1.  Web Developer 1.1.8

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/
 

Web Developer comes as a toolbar, with several extremely useful functions, allowing you to manage scripts, popups, cookies, display, images and forms, as well as viewing and editing CSS data, validating code, checking Section 508 and WAI accessibility compliance and a host of other tasks.

 

  1.  Foxy SEO Tool 0.8.3

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9440/
 


 

Foxy SEO Tools is a very popular toolbar add-on for the FireFox browser, that offers a number of functions for analysing web pages, as well as interfacing with various social media. The traffic analysis and profiling functions alone, make this a must-have tool for the serious web developer or SEO specialist. There are far too many features of this toolbar to discuss here, so you really must check it out!
 

  1.  Firebug 1.5.4

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/
 


 


 

If you’re running FireFox 3.5 or later, you’ll definitely want to consider adding Firebug to your browser. This is the professional web developer’s dream come true. Deep analysis functions and realtime editing come together to give you a fast and simple timesaver for most of your troubleshooting and corrective editing. I don’t know how I ever got along without Firebug.
 

Unfortunately, it is not compatible with earlier versions of FireFox.
 

  1. PHP Developer Toolbar 2.2.3

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12686/
 



 

For you PHP specialists, this is a tool you won’t want to be without. Multi-lingual support, and direct access to multiple websites, various developer communities and projects, all make this the best PHP tool available, right at your fingertips in FireFox. No more feverish switching between tabs, trying to find just the right description you want!