5 Great Browser Tools for Website Designers

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular and widely used web browsers today. As a web designer, there are a lot of different browser tools at your disposal as well as computer programs. Personally, I use Firefox as my primary browser and Safari as my secondary browser. Both of these browsers have add-ons that aid me in building and working on websites. Firefox specifically has a bunch of great add-ons/plugins that are great for web designers. My top five are:

• Firebug – Integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
• Web Developer – Adds various web developer tools to a browser.
• IE NetRenderer – It will enable you to get a screenshot of the current page as rendered by different versions of Internet Explorer. Once you select the browser version you want to see a screenshot of, then a new tab is opened with your screenshot.
• Firesizer – Provides a menu and status bar to resize the window dimensions to a specific size. Unlike other similar extensions, this one sets the size of the entire window, not just the HTML area.
• Colorzilla – Assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks – both basic and advanced. You can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.

If you haven’t used any of these I highly recommend checking them out. There are a lot more add-ons for Firefox that I use in addition to these, but these are among my favorites. What about you? Do you have browser add-ons that you love to use when building a site?