Recently discovered web developer-related Firefox add-ons

I have recently discovered a few Firefox extensions that can be quite useful when building websites. They are likely old news to many, but I figure there are at least a few others who have not come across them.

ColorZilla is a handy extension that makes it easy to grab colours from the web page that is currently open in the browser. It sure beats having to open a screen shot in Photoshop just to find a colour code for something. ColorZilla does some other useful things as well, so it is not just a colour picker.
Firefox Accessibility Extension adds features that are useful to people with disabilities and helps developers evaluate accessibility.
Screengrab! among other things lets you take screen shots of what is inside the browser viewport, without the browser chrome. I could have used this recently when I was taking a whole bunch of screen shots of various websites for an upcoming course on web development. Unfortunately I didn’t know about it then so I used the built in screen shot functionality in Mac OS X and cropped the images to get only the browser viewport. Oh well.
WAVE Toolbar lets you run the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool inside Firefox, without sending any information to the WAVE server. Perfect if you’re like me and spend a lot of time working on password-protected sites.

Posted on October 14, 2008 in Browsers, Accessibility