Comments on: Three Firefox Plugins to Greatly Help Web Developers

By: Bramus!

Bramus! — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:21:49 +0000

More handy firefox extensions for webdevelopers over at bram.us

By: egon

egon — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:54:47 +0000

Thanks, Joshua, I’ll check it out. Accessing the ruler in WDE has always bothered me a little bit…right-click, then go through the menus, then do it again to turn it off.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:47:19 +0000

@egon: thanks, yes, I know about the built-in and use it in some cases. However, I find myself using measureIt more because it is quicker to access/disable(single click) and provides a bit cleaner and simpler interface for measuring. You should try it, it resides in the bottom left next to colorZilla once installed.

By: egon

egon — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:17:52 +0000

@Joshua: the Web Developer plugin has a measuring device built-in. Just go to Misc -> Show Ruler I use it all the time. Unless you’re talking abot something else.

By: Ghetto Java

Ghetto Java — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:26:39 +0000

All I can say is yes, yes and yes. These 3 plugins are an essential part of my dev team’s toolbox

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:35:06 +0000

I don’t remember what it was like before I started using these plugins. It started with web dev plugin, which nothing short of amazing. And then I found colorzilla, so useful when color matching. When I started doing more javascript… well, firebug is not only essentia,l it is required. The other plugin I use very frequently is MeasureIt. Great for getting height/width of an piece of your website quickly.

By: Philippe Meunier

Philippe Meunier — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:29:37 +0000

Excellent, I already have all three installed