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Firefox Plug-in ‘SessionSaver’

admin — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:07:38 +0000

This is a nifty little plug-in that does exactly what it says—it saves sessions. If Firefox crashes, which does happen on occasion, when you fire it back up, all your open pages will be as you left them (except the offending page that made your browser crash, if that is the case).

YAFFE or Yet Another Firefox Extension

admin — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:14:59 +0000

I should probably create a Firefox extension category ’cause well, I love them so. Especially the ones that help me do my job. Thanks to an article over at 456 Berea Street, I’ve found yet another Firefox extension to post about. It’s called HTML Validator and I heart, heart, heart it.

It places a little icon down at the bottom of the status bar and lets you know if a page is valid, invalid or has errors. My site has errors due to some javascript. I know this because there is a little alert icon with an exclamation point in it. Kit Simons, I’m jealous, his site has a green checkmark. Google and several other sites I’ve visited get red x’s. Red, yellow, green—like a stoplight. The nice thing about this nifty plug-in is it shows where in your source code there are errors. How great is that?

Okay, so I’m officially wearing my geek badge right now but I can’t help it. If you had any idea how many web pages I touch in an eight hour day, you’d be excited about anything that made your job easier.

Firefox Extensions I Can’t Live Without

admin — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:52:01 +0000

It has been an easy transition for me from Safari to Firefox—the extendability (is that a word?) of Firefox was the selling point. The ease of use, the interface, everything about it is, in my opinion, pretty darn spiffy. To show just how much of a true geek I am, I thought I’d pass on three Firefox extensions I can’t do without.

First and foremost is the Web Developer Extension, by Chris Pederick. From the site:

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Some of the things it offers:

CSS
The CSS features provide various tools related to the CSS on the page including displaying the styles applied to the selected element and live editing of the CSS.
Outline
The outline features allow the outlining of various elements including block level and positioned elements.
Resize
The resize features provide the ability to resize the window to pre-defined or custom sizes and to display the current window size.

Next is MeasureIt by Kevin Freitas. Need to find out the size of something on your monitor? Just measure it with this great extension. You draw a box around the element you want the size of and it tells you in pixels what it is. How great is that?

Finally, there’s SessionSaver. From the site:

SessionSaver is an extension for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite that will automatically keep track of your browser windows and tabs and restore them exactly as they were across browser sessions. Not even crashes can faze it: window positions, tab histories, cookies, scrolling and text in text boxes – all are saved. SessionSaver can also save individual sessions for future recall.

Yep, so those are three extensions that help me in my day to day of developing websites. I hope you find them as useful as I have.