Web Dev Tools

It’s no secret that most web developers use Firefox for developing even if it’s not their favorite browser. Why? Well because of the vast library of extensiona that aid us along. I thought I would list some of my favorite extensions and a brief description.

1. Firebug - It’s a great DOM inspector
2. Greasemonkey - Uses JavaScript to change the way a page loads
3. JSView - Allows me to preview all the JS/CSS on a page
4. Measure It - Allows me to get dimensions of a web page on the fly
5. Screengrab - Allows me to grab images from a web page or copy the entire page
6. Regular Expressions Tester - This one speaks for itself
7. Web Developer Toolbar - This is an all in one dev toolbar. It does a ton of stuff
8. YSlow - Find out why your pages are loading slow ( requires firebug )
9. Fire Encrypter - Encrypts Passwords on the fly
10. Dummy Lipsm - Inserts dummy lipsum into a page for testing purposes.

These are just a few that I’ve been using for a while. There are more that I have installed, but don’t use on a daily basis.

There’s even a new one I want to check out it’s FirePHP - an extension that requires FireBug and helps debug PHP errors.

What extensions do you use and why?