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My Firefox must-have plugins list

To follow-up on my previous post, here's some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

• Developer tools
  • Colorzilla
    • eye dropper to get the RGB color values of anything on your screen
  • CSSViewer
    • nifty CSS info for any element
  • Firebug
    • I couldn't live without it.
  • FirefoxView
    • This adds a "view in firefox" right-click menu option in IE
  • FoxyProxy
    • Flexible proxy rule generator
  • Header Monitor
    • Adds a field to the status bar that displays the value for any particular response header. I set it to the "Server:" field since I'm always curious what other sites are running
  • HTML Validator
    • Helpful in debugging back HTML
  • IE View
    • This adds a "view in IE" right-click menu option in Firefox
  • JSView
    • Allows you to easily see and view the .js/.css files on any particular page
  • Live HTTP Headers
    • Header sniffing galore
  • MeasureIt
    • Online ruler
  • Screen grab!
    • Allows for easy screen grabs.
  • ShowIP
    • Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar & allows querying services like DomainTools
  • User Agent Switcher
    • Need to spoof a browser/OS for testing? This will allow you to do it easily on the fly.
  • Web Developer
    • If I could only choose one extension to install, this would be it.
• User Interface enhancements
  • del.icio.us Firefox extension
  • DragNDrop Toolbars
  • FxIF
  • MR Tech Local Install
  • Opanda IExif
  • PopupSound

Reordering Firefox toolbars

The most annoying thing about Firefox is that you can't rearrange the toolbars. **beats head on desk** You can move individual bits and pieces of a toolbar, but not the entire toolbar.

For example, I have the Yahoo, Google and Web Developer toolbars installed. I like to have the Web Developer toolbar as the bottom-most toolbar, but there is no easy way to do it like in Internet Explorer. I stumbled upon this Firefox extension, DragNDrop Toolbars, yesterday who's sole purpose is to do just that. Hallelujah!

Disabling Firefox 2 image auto resize

Firefox 2 removed the image auto resize option from the options menu. If you're like me and don't like automatic resizing, here's how to get around it:

1. In the address bar, type "about:config" (without the quotes)
2. You'll see a whole list of preferences, and a "Filter:" field at the top. In the filter, type "browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing" (without the quotes)
3. You should only see that preference now. Double click on it and you will toggle to "value" column from true to false.
4. All done