Firefox Extensions
I’ve recently spent a few hours checking out all the extensions you can get for Firefox and have found 3 that I think are quite useful.
Google Page Rank Extension
This extension will place a small bar-graph on your status bar to show how the page you are viewing is ranking at Google. This means that you can see how the different sites that you visit (including your own) compare with each other in rank status. It is just a bar graph and does not give you statistics but it’s handy as a “quick-view”.
A very simple but useful plugin for web site developers. IEView adds an option to the “right-click” context menu which enables you to switch to Internet Explorer. Very handy when you want to quickly see how your new page design gets broken by the “browser-from-hell” or if you come to one of those damned “IE only” pages! It also opens this view in a new page so you can easily close it and be back where you were before you switched.
There is so much in this plugin that it is best if you click on the link and go have a look for yourself. It can be set up with it’s own toolbar or left in the “Tools” menu for when you want it. You can validate any page you are viewing with a couple of clicks. This includes HTML, CSS and accessibility validation. You can change the validation services it uses, you can edit CSS “live”, view the CSS for a single element, use a style sheet on your machine to view a page with and it is highly configurable. Go check it out.
Cascading Style Sheets For Beginners
This isn’t a Firefox extension but whilst I am throwing links at you I thought I’d include it. Many WP users are just starting to get to grips with coding. This is a very nice article about CSS with plenty of resource links for people who are new to the web design game. Very useful!
Comments ( 15 )
might improve the readability just a shade?
issues here. :) :(
Anyway, I eighty-sixed the weather plug-in I had going. Way above my head on fixing those types of problems. Your right Stuart, if you spend too much time on it, throw it out, it an't worth the troubles! :hithead: But thanks for your time....
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OT What on earth is that rotating gizmo thingy :) I have had to adjust my monocle.
But ya, FireFox does have some good stuff, I like some of the themes you can get for it. And it does make Stuart's page look alot difrent than what I'm used to... he he he
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@Tom - Mmmm. Sun Java. Luvely jubbley. It used to be shipped as standard with Windows till they and Microsoft had a spat. Microsoft then refused to ship it with XP so you had to go find it yourself. They've now kissed and made up so it should ship with Longhorn but hopefully I'll be using something else by then. Sun Java is much better that the Microsoft machine. I've been setting it as my preference since Win'98.