There are so many browser plug-ins for developers now, that it’s no surprise that we find new, useful, plug-ins now and then.
Yesterday my college showed me the Pixelperfect plug-in for firefox and I wondered how I could have survived the last ten years without it. OK, maybe its a bit of exaggeration but its a tiny, super helpful plug-in.
That plug-in, together with a couple of others, are plug-in that we use daily in our work which greatly improve our way of work.
So, to help out others that might have missed which plug-ins might make their lives better, here is a list of the top 5 we find indispensable:
- Firebug for Firefox. How did we manage before Firebug? This is by far the best plugin there. It’s a must have.
- Web Develop Toolbar for Firefox. Same here. Indispensable and impossible to develop without it after trying.
- Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar for IE. If you still are developing on IE as your main development browser, this is a must-have.
- Firecookie for Firebug/Firefox. This plug-in monitors all cookies that are read or writen and shows everyhting trough the Firebug Console. Extremely useful for debugging.
- Pixelperfect for Firebug/Firefox. This plug-in allows you to put an image as a overlay on a site you are developing and set a custom amount of transparency. Perfect when you are as picky as us when coding HTML and CSS.
So, there you have it. At least our top 5. There are plenty more such as ColorZilla, Charles/Fiddler (for watching all traffic between your browser and the server) etc, but the list only has 5 slots.