Wednesday, July 2, 2008

my firefox addons

Hi,

Hope you have downloaded firefox 3. We have set the world record for the most downloaded software in 24hrs.
Check this link for the download status of FF3
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

I wrote this just to show you the addons that i use along with my firefox. If you are not so familiar with addons, those are plugins for FF that gives a additional functionality for firefox. You can know more about addons by going to this link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

So now lets get back to my firefox addons, in alphabetical order so that i dont show any discrimination to any particular addon ;-)

1)Colorzilla
This addon helps to pick a color from any website that you visit. It gives you color codes in rgb and hex format that can be used in css. CSS developers benefit most from this. get this addon from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

2)Delicious Bookmarks
Hope you know about delicious, which is the bookmarking site, where we can bookmark our favorite sites. So if you want to know my bookmarks check this out ;-)
http://del.icio.us/anoopgeorge. This addon gives a tab just beside your address bar and when you have found a interesting website, just click on this tab and it is bookmarked to your account.Click on the link below to know more about this addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615

3)Firebug
This addon is really useful to debug javascript and html errors. Really helpful if you are a web developer. Know more about this addon by following the link below
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

4)Fireshot
This addon helps to take a screen shot of a webpage. We can edit that screen shot easily to make our markings etc and then save it in different image formats. Really helpful to show a bug in a particular webpage. Get this addon from below link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

5)Web developer
If you are a web developer then you really need this plugin. The tabs this plugin provide are really helpful. It is really easy to set a cookie, delete one and even filling forms with sample data.really cool, check this addon in following link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

6)YSlow
YSlow is created by Yahoo Inc. This addon shows the reasons why your webapge is slow. It compares your web page with around 12 scale points and rates your web page. We need the firebug addon already installed before installing YSlow. Know more about this addon below
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369

Now you know about my firefox addons and hope this might help you

bye 4 now