Firefox extensions – the essentials for any CF developer
Posted on June 24, 2008
Filed Under ColdFusion, Firefox | 6 Comments
Since I discovered ColdFire and apparently I was late to the party, I thought I might detail the small number of extensions I rely on every day. They were the first things that got installed once I setup my dev environment on my new laptop and I regard them as absolutely indispensible for an CF developer.
- Web Developer Toolbar – I’ve been using this for years and it has never let me down. It just keeps getting better. When you don’t feel like firing up Firebug this toolbar is a lifesaver.
- Firebug – The best we developer extension, bar none for Firefox. I’ve recently been doing a lot of CSS layout and I think I would have been committed to a mental institution without this.
- FireFTP – I only recently discovered this gem. It seems like decent, free FTP clients are as rare as hens teeth (recent releases of FileZilla are good though) and I discovered this not long after FF3 was released. Works flawlessly as a full-functional ftp client right in your browser – brilliant!
- ColdFire – As mentioned in my earlier post. Like a diamond in the rough, polished while I wasn’t looking.
The only other extension I use every day is FoxClocks – not strictly development related, but seeing as I am an Aussie living in the UK timezones and world clocks are important to me and I haven’t found a neater way yet of keeping track of the time back home. Regularly updated, it just keeps getting better. One of the best general purpose Firefox addins yet IMO.
If there are any other firefox extensions other ppl are using that you regard as indispensible, let me know!
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I use Colorzilla very frequently also.
IETab is an essential for my shop.
In general I trick out my browser with:
Tiny Menu and Faviconize Tabs to limit the amount of real estate the browser bars take up.
The one other extension that I use ALL day but is not strictly dev related is All in one sidebar. makes everything so much more accessible!
FYI — I’m getting a 404 on the ColdFire URL
Developer ones that I use a lot that aren’t mentioned here are: MeasureIt, YSlow, CSSViewer and HTML Validator
@Jose – thanks, fixed.
Thanks for all the suggestions, will def be checking them out. I’d forgotten about installing IETab on my new laptop, I had always used it previously. I hate IE.