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July 12, 2009 in Showcases by Designussion

As we all know, Firefox has become the dominant force when it comes to browser competition. Firefox’s popularity is due to its ease of use and with its extensive add-on and extension library it has become a tool that web designers cannot live without. In this post, we showcase some amazing add-ons that make a designers life a little easier.

Management

FireFTP

A  free, secure, cross-platform FTP client which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Fire Shot

A set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.

Time Savers

IE Tab

A one click add-on that gives the designer a preview of what the site will look like on Internet Explorer.

Web Development

An all in one toolbar with various tools at hand.

AutoCopy

Automatically copy text to your clipboard with a quick highlight of it.

MeasureIt

MeasureIt allows you to draw out a ruler so that pixel length and width can be found right on the webpage.

Style and Validation

HTML Validator

Display HTML errors inside the browser. The add-on displays the number of errors of a HTML page in the form of an icon in the status bar.

CSS Validator

Validate the webpage using the W3C CSS Validator.

Font Finder

Discover a fonts CSS styles with a simple highlight of the required element.

Firebug

Browse and edit HTML and CSS markup and watch live previews of your changes as you type.

Link Checker

Check for valid links on any webpage. Find broken links that may lead visitors else where.

View Source Chart

Give your eyes a rest and display source code in color coded chart.