6:12 pm - Tuesday February 7, 2012

Top 5 Must Have Firefox Add-ons for Webmasters and Bloggers

Introducing 5 must have Add-on for Firefox for web monitoring ,web content managing and code analysis.

1. ShowIP

ShowIP will display the IP Address of the website you are currently you are browsing.  Other than showing the IP Address if you right click on the IP address on the Browser it will pop up with few advanced options to view the Reverse IP Lookups, Hostname Discovery, Country of the server Hosted, IP Blacklisting Information, Domain Lookups and Webhost Discovery etc. It uses services such as robtex.com, ip2country.cc, dns.l4x.org and whois.sc . You can download this add-on from here

2. Web Developer

Web Developer Add-on combines many must have tools such as CSS code viewing,  displaying form information on a website, finding a broken image link, image path, image size, div order, viewing java script, cookie information, source code information, viewing or editing the source code in a 3rd party application and checking validation for CSS, Feeds, HTML. This is Add-on is a huge pack of utilities capable of slicing a web page in very deep for code analysis. You can download this add-on from here

3. Site Information Tool

Site information tool will provide you every basic information about a website in one single page. The information’s such as Website ranking in Google page rank, alexa, compete.com, technorati. Then IP address information, link count, page count, server response headers, Feed subscribers count, top performing keywords, competitors list etc. It will be the easiest way to gather all the information in one single click. You can download this add-on from here

4. DNS Cache

DNS Cache is an Add-on used to disable or enable Firefox caching feature also it has the ability to clear the browsing cache. DNS caching is Firefox’s option to cache the web pages to speed up the browsing experience. But while developing a website when you try to preview it may not display the web site if that site is cached on Firefox browser. So this tool can be used to clear the cache. You can download this add-on from here

5. Website Pulse

This piece of add-on is based on the website monitoring service called Websitepulse. The add-on supports monitoring your web server or websites and sends periodic alerts on critical conditions. The service will monitor your website from various global locations and alerts when it finds a problem. To activate this add-on right click on “Extension Disabled” of the status bar to pop up the website pulse then enter your Websitepulse account user name and API key to activate it. You can download this add-on from here

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