I divided this article in three sections – Web development, Social development related plugins and finally just overall handy plugins for better browsing.

Also I must remind you, you will not find already popular and well known extensions here, since the mayor community already are know such plugins like – GreaseMonkey, WebDeveloper or Firebug tools for example. Just scroll through the list, check screenshots and hopefully several of these plugins will be useful for your daily Firefox internet browsing.

Web Development Related Firefox Plugins

1.Palette Grabber 0.4.1

Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page. This plugin is great using together with ColorPicker, actually extends possibilities.

2.LinkChecker

Check the validity of links on any web page, this plugin is good for web designers and actually bloggers too.

There’s also a tool-bar button that can be added for easier access to LinkChecker. Just right click on your tool-bar, choose “Customize” and look for the button with the underlined blue check.

3.View Cookies

Just a little bit faster and handier way how to check site cookies.

It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies of the

current web-page. This is interesting for developers, privacy-conscious users and others.

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CSS Cookbook

CSS Cookbook »
By Christopher Schmitt
The CSS Cookbook provides more than quick code solutions to pressing problems. The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables readers to customize the formatting for their specific purposes, and shows why the solution works, so you can adapt these techniques to other situations. Recipes range from the basics that every web author needs to code concoctions that will take your web pages to new levels.

CSS Pocket Reference

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Userfocus, a consultancy & training company on website usability, is sharing 247 web usability guidelines for creating more consistently & better.

The guidelines are very well-categorized like homepage, forms & data entry, navigation, search & more.

Here are some examples:

• Text boxes on forms are the right length for the expected answer.
• The home page shows good examples of real site content.
• The layout helps focus attention on what to do next.
• Search results are clear, useful and ranked by relevance.

All the guidelines are also provided as an Excel workbook, where you can go through a website & check the ones that are ok.

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CometChat, a Facebook-style chat script -which enables website users to chat with each other easily- is giving away 2 licenses ($49/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on “how to join” can be found at the end of the post.

What is CometChat?

It is a PHP / MySQL script for creating a chat environment that can be used while visitors are browsing any page of the website.

Users can select their statuses (like busy, available, invisible or a custom one), “get friends” with each other & see if their friends are online or not.

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Almost every web designer/developer, one way or another, faces data loss & experiences the importance of taking regular backups.

Backup2Mail is a free PHP script which easily prevents this problem by automatically backing up MySQL databases & e-mailing them to a given address.

It requires PHP 4.1+ to run & for scheduling the script, cron jobs (Unix/Linux) or a scheduled task interface (Windows) is required.

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PHP is everywhere . PHP is popular server-side scripting language,mostly you seen in wordpress blog platforms. wordpress blog platforms totally build in PHP. PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. It is the widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft’s ASP.

PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML code. The PHP syntax is very similar to Perl and C.

1. glFusion PHP content management system

   
   glFusion PHP (CMS) is a full featured open source Content Management System written in PHP. glFusion provides all the tools necessary to quickly create and maintain a content driven web site. glFusion also provides a rich application development environment.

   glFusion is well organized and provides a very powerful system that is extremely easy to use. glFusion powers everything from personal blogs, to high volume community discussion sites.glFusion is released license under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.

2. Dacomasy PHP content management system

   Dacomasy PHP (CMS) is a  full featured open source database content management system written in PHP5.  Dacomasy CMS uses XML files to define the management interface for tables in a database systems schemata.

3. Xaraya PHP content management system

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   Xaraya PHP (CMS) is a open source web application framework and content management solution written in PHP . Xaraya allow developer to create sophisticated web applications and designers enjoy considerable flexibility.Xaraya is released under the GNU General Public License.

   Xaraya is fully dynamic multi-platform Content Mangement Solutions (CMS). it is extensible, uses robust permissions, and multilingual systems to dynamically manage content. Read the rest of this entry »