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Firefox offers a lot of benefits over other browsers. Apart from the well web browser that Firefox is also a web designer’s best friend. You can do about all of your web page testing inside Firefox and make use of it as a tool along with graphic and code editors to assist you design more improved and faster. One of the best advantages is that, it has ability to install add-ons. There are huge amount of great plugins are available for web developers to use to assist them make better websites and make them easier to find the way.

Here we mention some of the exciting features of Firefox which makes it different from others for the web designer’s.

• Page Source: Firefox has really an ingenious source code viewer with code highlighting. You can easily see the code of one part of a full page by its view selection source option.
• Error Console: It is a great tool of Mozilla Firefox that is used for reporting errors in the application chrome and in web pages user opens. It gives the error and warning reports of JavaScript and CSS related errors.
• Page Info: Firefox has really an exceptional tool which is page information tool that lists detailed information about a page.
• Firebug: This extension put a wealth of development tools into your Firefox. This will provide you live debugging on CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.  You can easily copy the code of nice part of site and can use it into your stylesheet through the extension.
• FireFTP: For the developer FTP application is so much important. And FireFTP is an FTP client that you can launch right in your browser’s window. So you don’t need any separate FTP application, if you are a user of Firefox.
• ColorZilla: With this exciting feature you can get a color reading from any part in your browser and can quickly adjust this color, then can easily use of it into another program. It is obviously much better than searching for a particular color code all over in a stylesheet.
• Web Developer Toolbar: A must have option for any web designer. This extension adds a toolbar that has a long selection of webmaster tools and resources. It has ability of view source of CSS easily in new tab, validation of HTML, CSS, Feeds, and many more access. Other it is included with information and manipulation of forms, images, and cookies.
• JavaScript Debugger: This extension offers feedback for JavaScript errors which provides a lot of detailed information to assist you troubleshoot and fix the problem.
• Codetech: It is web designer’s best code editor, can be opened in a new floating window.
• Measure It: This is a simple but very effective feature. It is mainly a ruler that allows you to discover how much space something is taking up on the page.
• YSlow: It is an extension which is developed by Yahoo. It helps to understand why a web page is slow. Here is report card generated that specify why the web page is performing poorly based on Yahoo’s rules.
• Screengrab: This extension allows you to take full mode screenshots of web pages. With this you can capture the visible portion of web page and able to copy it to clipboard.
• Window Resizer: This a great feature which allows you to change between different resolutions and screen sizes for testing your layout.

This is not the end of the list of Firefox web development extensions and benefits. Here are also lots of extensions and benefits of Firefox for web designers. You can find regularly new addition and update of Firefox web development extensions, you can easily add that to our comments and we will love to know about them.