How to make FireFox even better than it is

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How to make FireFox even better than it is

Written by Mike Yarmish | Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Featured, Reference & Tutorials, Soap Box, Web Design

It’s not just my opinion that firefox is a great browser. Almost every top list of internet products contains it. It becomes better than IE right after installation. With all that you can make it much better because of a lot of great plugins. That applies not just to web development but to simple browsing too. I won’t tell about standart compatibility and better page rendering but will tell about plugins which should have everyone.

At the beginning are plugins which should have everyone but not just web developers.

PDF Download. When a link lead to some pdf file, thanks to this plugin you’ll have a choice: download the file, open it in acrobat reader or view a html rendering of it.
Link Alert. This plugin changes a mouse cursor to indicate a target of a link. It works with most common file extensions.
AdBlock. You don’t like advertising? You won’t have it after setting up this plugin.
MinimizeToTray. If you are a windows user and don’t like the process of browser’s loading, you always can minimize it to the system tray with this plugin.

The next category contains plugins which makes firefox the best web development platform.

Web Developer. The king of plugins. It has a lot of useful abilities like CSS viewing and editing, working with images, window resizing, outlining html elements, standarts validating and so on. The plugin is really must have for everyone who works with web sites.
IE Tab. A lot of people use Explorer so every site need to be IE optimized. With this plugin you can do this from your favorite browser!
ColorZilla. You want to know what colors was used in some site? The plugins helps to do that like you can do in any graphic editor with an image.
ScrapBook. Web designing is a process when you need inspiration. Save and organize all sites you like with that plugin. You can read more about it here.
FireBug. Another must have for every web developer who works with JavaScript. Besides some useful things it can do with html/css it has JavaScript debugger.
HTML Validator. Code validation on fly? Easly!
View formatted source. Sometimes when you debugging an html code it’s very useful to look at code structure. The plugin formats the code without any troubles.

In the end I must say that FireFox have plugins for almost every modern social service and you can find them Mozilla’s site.

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