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Useful Firefox Add-ons

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Useful Firefox Add-ons

Scott-S View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 02:24 AM Post #1
New Squeeze Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 14-February 08 From: London, UK Member No.: 97	Lynx Viewer Tool Displays a Lynx view of a web page via right-click or Tool menu. With just one click and without leaving the page (RightLynx opens in a new, small window), preview the page you are on with a Lynx Viewer. You can see what what a page will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. It is also presumably, how search engines see your site. In addition, it can help determine if web pages are accessible to the vision impaired. Accessibility Toolbar The Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with a disability to view and navigate web content. Developers can use the toolbar to check their structural markup to make sure it matches the page content. TAW3 Web Accessibility Test TAW3 with a click allows to verify, with just a click, the accessibility of the Web sites that you are visiting, by means of the TAW3 online service (www.tawdis.net) and making use of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Colour Contrast Analyser Does exactly what it says on the tin... Web Analytics Solution Profiler Provides detailed information about the data being collected trough Query String and Cookies by web analytics solutions. Now covers 68 solutions, including Google Analytics, Omniture SiteCatalyst, Visual Sciences HBX, Coremetrics, see the home page for a complete list. Unicode Converter / Input Tool Converts entities or character references (hex and dec) into Unicode and back; has Unicode lookup and chart view FireFTP FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. L.O.R.I - Life of Request Info 'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site. Linkification Converts text links into genuine, clickable links... Search Status SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. Designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar. For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficancy. Addblock Plus - gets rid of nasty, intrusive advertising, which you can override on sites you like. Speeds up browsing as the images aren't served, therefore helping with bandwidth. British English Dictionary - helps you spell proper in the Queen's English. ColorZilla - simple colour picker that allows you to lift colours from a website and convert it to HEX or RGB. Fasterfox - speeds up Firefox with some judicious hacks. You can vary it from slight to heavy, but beware heavy can make your system unstable. IE Tab - why use IE's unusable and bland GUI, when you can make it work in Firefox? MeasureIt - gives you a simple measuring tool to see how big something is on-screen. Screen grab! - takes full size or visible frame screenshots in PNG or JPG formats. Gets rid of all the clutter (toolbars, buttons, cursors etc) so your screenies look great! And a useful site..... Firefox/Mozilla Extensions \| Stanford Online Accessibility Program Regards Scott -------------------- Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear smart until you hear them speak.

Ross View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 10:16 AM Post #2
Rapid Squeezer Group: Team Leaders Posts: 133 Joined: 14-February 08 From: On the t'interweb Member No.: 46	Cheers for these I have been using the English Dictionary for a few months now and I have noticed that it actually contains a few spelling errors -------------------- Sound Unsound : Mashup Forum : Podcast Forum : Remixes Forum Sound Unsound Media

c010depunkk View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 10:22 AM Post #3
Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 164 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Willich, Germany Member No.: 56	Thanks, man.... had most already but found 2 new useful ones! -------------------- www.c010depunkk.com ~ the hangout of a web developer

Simon View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 12:00 PM Post #4
Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 337 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Dreamweaver Member No.: 68	I use google spell checker. Explains why every thing is spelt wrong. Simon -------------------- Blog : The Net is Dying! \| Forum: We Are Battlefield Heroes Forum Job: Bennett Seo \| Twitter: Bennett Seo Vanilla Source - Vanilla Help, and mods

ejg View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 01:11 PM Post #5
Squeezing Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-February 08 Member No.: 86	My two favorites are 1. Firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. 2. HTML Validator Validates HTML in Firefox. Shows validation errors in View->Page Source There are some on your list that I definately need to check out.

craig View Member Profile	Feb 25 2008, 01:16 AM Post #6
Fresh Squeezed Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 13-February 08 Member No.: 17	You missed the ALL important one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 The holy grail of web developer add-ons! -------------------- Craig Hamnett Fast, Cheap, Good... choose two

Monie View Member Profile	Feb 25 2008, 02:28 AM Post #7
ASP Advisor Group: Advisors Posts: 669 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Borneo Member No.: 8	... and I cant live without them!!! The Web Developer Toolbar!! -------------------- Monieweb.com - So much to learn, so little time! _{^{QUOTE The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office!}}

thesealportaltea... thesealportalteam View Member Profile	Feb 25 2008, 08:46 AM Post #8
Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 217 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Currently loacted in bustle of vurtual servers hosted by GoDaddy.com. Member No.: 96	Thanks these are a lot of add-ons, love to run some more of them. Thanks for the post! -------------------- We are sorry but complaint.hell is not registered to Heaven Inc. TheSealPortal.com - Yea, we are celebrating are 200th post at TWS. Everybody Party.

Daniel View Member Profile	Feb 25 2008, 08:47 AM Post #9
The Rabbit King Group: Team Leaders Posts: 283 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Chasing carrots in Farmer Jack's farm! Member No.: 9	Pinned as this is a useful thread

Scott-S View Member Profile	Feb 25 2008, 06:59 PM Post #10
New Squeeze Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 14-February 08 From: London, UK Member No.: 97	OMG I can't believe I forgot to include the web developer toolbar! Hangs head in shame Maybe it was because I knew that any self respecting FF user would have it installed already, and my sub-concious decided it would just be a waste of space? (or of course, this could just be me trying to eplain away my stupidity!) Anyway, Will keep the list updated as and when I discover more. Kind Regards Scott -------------------- Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear smart until you hear them speak.

4lun View Member Profile	Mar 7 2008, 05:52 PM Post #11
Fresh Squeezed Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Newport, S.Wales Member No.: 84	Has anyone tried PicLens? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579 I just installed it and my reaction was just woah! Install it and go and browse a photostream on flickr using it, it is pretty slick -------------------- View my: portfolio \| flickr \| last.fm

rewake View Member Profile	Mar 8 2008, 01:39 PM Post #12
Rapid Squeezer Group: Mentor Posts: 205 Joined: 14-February 08 From: NY, USA Member No.: 127	Hey Guys, Here's a couple more... YSlow YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow Gmail Manager Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Rich -------------------- QUOTE if ($name=='will') echo '/(bb\|[^b]{2})/'; Raineri Jewelers \| MySpace \| Facebook \| deviantART

MikeHopley View Member Profile	Jun 23 2008, 09:47 AM Post #13
Squeeze Machine Group: Mentor Posts: 505 Joined: 15-February 08 From: UK Member No.: 143	QUOTE (rewake @ Mar 8 2008, 07:39 PM) YSlow YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow Wow. That's brilliant. Thanks!

MikeHopley View Member Profile	Jun 23 2008, 10:30 AM Post #14
Squeeze Machine Group: Mentor Posts: 505 Joined: 15-February 08 From: UK Member No.: 143	One word of warning when using Yslow: Do not become obsessed by the grade. Some of the performance optimisation tips are inappropriate for normal websites; they're really useful for websites with millions of visitors a day. I mean, are you seriously going to use a CDN for your blog? Read the documentation; there's some great ideas in there, but you need to understand them before you rush off to implement something that could actually harm your site's performance. For example: my website is lightning-fast, but it scored an F grade in Yslow. Although I'll be implementing some of the suggestions, others would be silly.

thewal View Member Profile	Jun 23 2008, 11:19 AM Post #15
Squeezing Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 107	QUOTE (ejg @ Feb 24 2008, 07:11 PM) 1. Firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. I have this but it says it is not compatible with ff 3.0 -------------------- Finally squeeezin!!!!

karinne View Member Profile	Jun 23 2008, 07:49 PM Post #16
Co-Founder Group: Co-Founders Posts: 2,498 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Squeezin' Member No.: 2	Try the link welshstew gave in the firefox review thread in this forum -------------------- The Squeeze Store is now OPEN! Come on in and grab something! a web design portfolio \| web non-sense I'm also on: del.icio.us \| flickr \| virb \| facebook \| twitter The Web Squeeze is also on: virb \| facebook \| stumbleupon - JOIN IN!

mv08jml View Member Profile	Jun 23 2008, 08:28 PM Post #17
Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 5-June 08 From: South Carolina Member No.: 242	I use the web developer toolbar and the screen grabber. Very useful products! -------------------- CSS is amazing.

thewal View Member Profile	Jul 4 2008, 04:43 PM Post #18
Squeezing Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 107	Ok, I couldn't get hotmail live working with ff3. I sent off an e-mail to microsoft. This is what they replied. 1. Use the basic version of Windows Live Hotmail 2. Downgrade your browser version to Firefox 2 3. Install IEtab(add-on): i. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 ii. Click "Add to Firefox (Windows)" button on the page. iii. On the window that pops up, Click "Install Now" iv. A new window will pop up - after installation completes click "Restart Firefox" v. Firefox should restart with the "Add-ons" window open - close the "Add-ons" window by clicking the X in the upper right corner vi. Navigate to http://www.hotmail.com vii. Sign into your hotmail account viii. Once signed into your email account, go to Tools -> IE Tab Options ix. The URL field will be auto-populated, click "Add" x. Click OK xi. Click "Sign out" xii. Navigate back to http://www.hotmail.com xiii. Sign back into your hotmail account what about the first two. Oh yeah, like I am going to down grade. I know you guys had told me to install, but I didn't no it was for that. It is funny, that Microsoft actually told me how to get something working for ff -------------------- Finally squeeezin!!!!

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