I’ve seen a few lists floating around the internet for firefox plugins. If you’re not yet using firefox, you should be. Not only is it a great browser but it has an entire developer community that is creating awesome extensions for it. Here are a list of my favorites:
Firebug – If you’re a web developer or designer like me, you’ll find that this utility is by far the most useful extension and will save you so much time, you won’t know how you lived without it.
FireFTP – This little gem will allow you to have an integrated FTP program inside firefox that will make doing web development so much easier. Just upload the file in one tab and preview it in another. Don’t forget to download the FireFTP button as well so that you can place it right after the “home” button in your toolbar.
Regular Expression Tester – Holy crap. If you’ve ever worked with regular expression, you’ll find this utility to be a real time saver. Place some text in the sample area and start laying out the regex. The utility will highlight the current section of the text your expression is acting on. I’m not sure how I got by without that one.
Tabmix Plus – Ever open so many tabs in firefox you can tell what site they point to anymore? Well Tabmix Plus allows you to have multiple rows of tabs and an nifty button for adding more.
IE Tab – This utility allows you to render a tabs contents instantly in IE without having to actually open IE. It switches Firefox render engine to use the one that comes with IE. You’ll never need to launch IE again.
Del.icio.us – This service and toolbar makes handling lots of bookmarks so much easier. If you use several computers daily, like I do, you’ve probably ran into the issue where you bookmarked a site on your work PC only to want to look at it at home but you can’t remember the URL. In comes Del.icio.us. It allows you to save bookmarks on a web-based service and then re-call them from any computer that has the Del.icio.us plugin installed. Definitely worth a look.
Well, there you have my list. If you would like to add more to the list, please feel free to drop a comment on this post.