Are you color challenged? If you’re wife puts out your clothes for you in the morning, you might want to check out Palette Grabber. It’s a simple extension that will convert the color palette of any web page into a palette file that you can import into Photoshop!
Here is a comprehensive Firefox Extension Development Tutorial. The tutorial covers the following topics:
Selenium is an automated web application testing utility that runs your tests directly in a web browser. Selenium uses JavaScript and Iframes to embed a test automation engine in your browser. The engine uses JavaScript that you can write by hand, but the makers of Selenium, have also created an IDE extension for Firefox that make writing your tests much easier. If you would like to try out Selenium and the Selenium IDE, you should check out this tutorial (complete with screencasts) that will get you up and running in no time at all!
Drag and Drop Upload is a very useful extension for Firefox that lets you drop files from Explorer or Finder onto a file upload box. W00t! No more clicking the browse button!
If you’re a blogger and use Firefox, you must download the CoLT extension from Born Geek. The extension adds three items to your contextual menu when you right-click on a link. You can choose to copy the link text, link location or even best the link text and location all wrapped up in a handy anchor tag! This has become my most used extension and has saved me much time!
Jonah Bishop from Born Geek has an excellent tutorial that will help you create a Firefox Toolbar Extension using nothing but a bit of JavaScript, XML, CSS and a Zip utility!
Validaty is a Firefox extenstion from Henrik Gemal that provides one-click HTML validation from your toolbar. If validation succeeds, the toolbar button turns green, if bad, it turns red and gives you the option to view the validation report.
I have created a 15 minute screencast that will show you how to Debug JavaScript with Firebug. I cover a number of concepts such as using the console, interactive debugger and timer features of the Firebug extension for Firefox. If you haven’t tried Firebug yet, I’m sure that this screencast will convince you to make it a part of your JavaScript coding workflow.
I hope you enjoy my first screencast! I plan on doing a few more over the next couple of weeks, so I would appreciate your feedback.
Launch the screencast now! (requires Flash)
This has got to be one of the greatest Firefox Extensions aimed at the Web 2.0 developer. FireBug is a docking pane that essentially replaces the Firefox DOM Inspector, JavaScript Console and HTTPRequest Sniffer all in one fell swoop. The pane docks against the document loaded into the current tab or window and shows information only for that page. The best part is that the DOM inspector included with this tool is far simpler and more powerful than the one installed with Firefox. Go get this one now!
The Web Developer Firefox Extension has finally gone gold after 1 year of development! The essential tool for every web developer boasts many New Features and Bug Fixes with the release of version 1.0.
