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Putting up a short note to highlight this wordpress blog post about appreciation to forum volunteers. (Any reason MichaelH is the only profile with nofollow link? ) It’s quickly visible when SearchStatus add-on for Firefox is installed and highlight nofollow links is enabled.

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Are you among the 23.51% of visitors to cheatad.com that is still using Internet Explorer? You should switch to Mozilla Firefox.

Browsers distribution of Cheatad visitors

Really. Not only because it’s faster. And not only because it’s more hip and trendier. And not just because it has much friendlier user interface than Microsoft Internet Explorer. But more than that, it’s because of the myriads range of indispensable add-on (also called plugins in Microsoft terminology) to help our job as web developers. Best of them all, it’s free. Both the browser and the add-ons are free to download and use.

Web developer add-ons for Firefox
What are the best and most important Firefox add-ons for web developer? Here is the list of add-ons that I use most.

1. Web Developer
   
   

   Web Developer Add On For Firefox

   
   What is it good for? Web developer add-ons will add a menu toolbar to your Firefox browser, containing a good range of functions, mostly to control how the webpages are loaded into your browser. You can, for example, load the page without Javascript, or see only the CSS style-sheet file.
2. SearchStatus
   
   

   SearchStatus Add-On For Firefox

   
   What is it good for? SearchStatus adds menu to your status bar. When installed, the SearchStatus bar lets you view the loaded webpage Google PageRank, Alexa popularity ranking and Compete.com ranking at a glance. In just one or two clicks, you can get lots of information such as Google Category, Alexa incoming links, backward links from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, and WhoIs information. If that’s not enough, you can also enable Highlight Nofollow Links thus can easily distinguish follow and nofollow links whenever visiting a website without having to look at the property or source code.
3. MeasureIt
   
   

   MeasureIt Add On For Firefox

   
   What is it good for? Need to find that exact width quickly? Take out the ruler! MeasureIt is the ruler for Firefox, to easily get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
4. ScreenGrab
   
   

   Screen Grab Add-On For Firefox

   
   What is it good for? If you are doing computer or Internet tutorials, and making a lot of screen shots then this is surely an add-on for you. Using ScreenGrab, you can capture the webpage, either as partial screenshot of what you see in the window, just a selection, a particular frame or the entire page. You can either save the image as a file or copy the image to your clipboard.
5. ColorZilla
   
   

   ColorZilla Add On For Firefox

   
   What is it good for? Can’t find that right tone of blue for the background? If you can see it somewhere on the web, ColorZilla can get it for you. ColorZilla has nice useful goodies for webmaster, from the basic but tremendously useful color eyedropper to zooming tool for viewing webpages up to 1000% original size.

Other highly popular plugins you may want to check out are SEOQuake, FireBug and GreaseMonkey. I rarely use them, except occasionally using FireBug to debug on javascript error or measuring loading-time bottleneck. Don’t get me wrong, these are superior plugins and are very useful to many developers. For me, I find them to complicated and intimidating.

Have you tried them all? What do you think? Or do you have other suggestion of great add-on for Firefox? Let us know in the comment below.

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