I’ve added a few Firefox extentions recently and it’s quickly making me wonder how I lived without them.
I’ve had IE View installed for ages which is really simple but really valuable. All it does is add an option when I right click on a page to open it in Internet Explorer. As I said it sounds so simple but I use it so much, especially when I’m testing cross browser compatibility of my sites.
I finally got round to reinstalling Web Developer which adds a toolbar and a load of functionality specifically designed for those developing websites and web apps. I’ve been without it for ages (we’re talking years) but I don’t know why, it add loads of stuff.
For example I can disable JavaScript and CSS with a click to see how the page degrades. This is especially useful in backward compatibility testing my Web 2.0 apps for users without JavaScript. What I also find mega useful is the ability for it to display all forum values including hidden elements and allow you to edit them so you can easily test things like people putting in rogue values (such as trying to edit someone elses profile by changing the user id in the hidden form variable to someone elses user id). I’m just scratching the surface here though, it has a massive toolbar of stuff.
Finally I also installed FireFTP which is an FTP client which sits in a tab of Firefox. I never got round to installing an FTP client on my desktop as I always used my laptop but it was annoying a lot of the time. So it’s convient to have one, especially that just sits in my always open browser. It’s not too shabby either it supports multiple accounts, quick connect, two panes (local and remote) and even lock-stepping.
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