Media Player For Web Professionals Discovery #16 – JW Player OK, it’s not a Firefox Extension today but an Open Source Media Player, JW Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/ ) With over one million active users, the JW Player™ is the Internet’s most popular and flexible open source media player. It can support playback of any format the Continue reading »
SimilarWeb Discovery Tool – Discovery #15 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #15 – SimilarWeb SimilarWeb Discovery Tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/similarweb-sites-recommendatio/?src=search Discover useful traffic insights about the websites you visit. Find out how big the websites you visit are on the internet and in their categories. Get instant knowledge on the main sources of traffic bringing users to the website you’re viewing. Instant Continue reading »
Video DownloadHelper – Discovery #14 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #14 – Video DownloadHelper Video DownloadHelper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ The easy way to download and convert Web videos, audio and picture galleries from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. For instance, if you Continue reading »
Flashblock – Discovery #13 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #13 – Flashblock Flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on the icon. Flashblock takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage Continue reading »
YAWR – Discovery #12 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #12 – YAWR Yet Another Window Resizer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yet-another-window-resizer/ Yet Another Window Resizer allows you to resize your browser window to the default screen resolutions. As a developer you are probably using a fairly large monitor, but what will your customers see, live on the web. This application will allow Continue reading »
PrintPDF – Discovery #11 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #11 – PrintPDF PrintPDF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/printpdf/ A simple yet powerful utility which allows users on Windows and Linux to print web pages to PDF. This is a really great utility for those who do not have the Adobe PDF addons. Mac users you already have this functionality. Don’t forget, Continue reading »
Screen Grab – Discovery #10 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #10 – Screen Grab Screen Grab takes a screenshot of the webpage and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image. It will capture what Continue reading »
AdSense Preview – Discovery #9 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #9 – AdSense Preview AdSense Preview lets you preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on a web page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting Continue reading »
SEO for Firefox – Discovery #8 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #8 – SEO for Firefox SEO for Firefox ( http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html ) SEO for Firefox pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS, and more. It also adds a few helpful links to the top of the search Continue reading »
Codetech – Discovery #7 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #7 – Codetech Codetech is a web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing extension for anyone doing web design that doesn’t want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver. Unfortunately this add-on is currently only available for older versions of Firefox but hopefully Continue reading »
FireBug – Firefox Discovery #6 – Extensions For Web Professionals
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #6 – FireBug FireBug is an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor web pages. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/ Firebug’s Continue reading »
IE Tab – Discovery #5 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #5 – IE Tab IE Tab ( http://ietab.mozdev.org ) embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. Are you sick of swapping between Internet Explorer and Firefox when testing out a web page you’re developing? With IE Tab you can view Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab! “Believe it or Continue reading »
FireFTP – Discovery #4 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #4 – FireFTP Like you, most web developers and SEO professionals, I use an array of tools to get my work on the web done and one of the “must haves” for any web developer is a good FTP application. FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that Continue reading »
Professor X – Discovery #3 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #3 – Professor X Professor-X – lets you view header information without having to view source code. The page “slides” down and Professor X shows you the contents of the page’s head element, including Meta, Script and Style content. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/professor-x/ To install (add-on), from within Firefox: Tools > Add-ons Continue reading »
WHOIS Lookup – Discovery #2 – Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals

Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #2 – WHOIS Lookup Today’s Firefox discovery is Vitzo’s WHOIS add-on for FireFox 3+ users (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whois-lookup-10494/) This add-on allow you to view the WHOIS information for any web site. Vitzo’s WHOIS add-on supplies a very convenient button on the top-right of the browser address bar and makes the Continue reading »



