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Best Firefox Plugins for Web Designers

By Peter Boyd

Just a quick post on the tools we use for Firefox to make our life easier.

1. Web Developer Toolbar - A must for designers, hence the name.  Contains too many tools to list.
2. Firebug - Great for debugging sites with CSS.
3. Measure It - Needed to well. . . get measurements of web sites.
4. ColorZilla - Snag any color on the screen for quick hex matching.
5. Clear Cache - Great for making sure clients update their cache (i.e. get them to install this plugin).  Also good if you want to be sure your cache is clear.
6. Fireshot - Perfect for sending concepts around to designers/developers with markups and comments (or screenshots to clients).
7. Password Export - Needed if you manage many sites and want to backup settings from computer to computer.  Also nice to see your passwords, in case you forget.
8. FireFTP - Although we use Transmit, WS FTP and Dreamweaver to upload, this is good to update too.
9. IE View - Perfect for Windows computers to see what pesky Internet Explorer sites look like quickly.

There are also two plugins, that I think everyone should use:

1. Google Preview - Just plain nice to see sites before you click on them. Allows me to quickly weed out crap sites.
2. PDF Download - Great to warn me of PDF links and let me choose to download or save.

Obviously there are countless more, but that is what the comments are for.

Full post as published by PaperStreet Web Design: SpeakOut on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).