Top 10 Must Have Browser Extensions for Bloggers

As a blogger, you need to install various extensions to your browser to work more efficiently. These extensions eases your work and lets you work with more flexibility. With so many plugins in the market here is a list of Best 10 plugins that every blogger must install in his / her browser.

These extensions have a wide range of utility, from productivity tools that monitor the amount of time you spend on the Internet, to social media tools that conveniently give you in-browser capabilities for using popular services such as Twitter and Facebook.

There are plenty of extensions that can make the day-to-day work of bloggers significantly more efficient and fruitful. Here are 10 highly recommended, top-notch extensions for bloggers.

1. Firebug

Firebug offers a variety of developement tasks at your fingertips like you can edit the CSS, debug and monitor it, you can also edit Javascript and HTML quickly on your browser and see the live results instantly.

It is an open source plugin that helps you in inspecting and debugging a website.

2. WebDeveloper

Web Developer helps the bloggers to perform a lot of tasks efficiently. It contains various menus like resize, cookies, CSS, forms, images etc. It helps you in optimizing, analysing and validating the web pages.

3. ColorZilla

ColorZilla is a very powerful mozilla plugin. It helps you to pick up any color or font from the webpage. It offers advance eyedropper, pagezoomer, colorpicker and creation of beautiful color gradient.

4. YSlow

This plugin integrates the Firebug plugin to analyse the web pages and fine tune them for better performance. With this plugin you can optimize your website to load faster. It analyses the web pages and tells you why they are running slow.

5. HTML Validator

This plugin integrates HTML validation inside browser. It shows you the number of errors found on the site you are surfing. The tool is very helpful for bloggers. It makes sure that you are writing a valid HTML code to your website.

6. MeasureIt

This plugin enables you to draw ruler across any web page. So, with this you can check the height and width of an element on the web page. Size is actually an important parameter for designing various elements on the webpage hence the plugin is useful.

7. IE Tab

IE Tab plugin helps you to see how your site appears in Internet Explorer without leaving chrome/Firefox. As the bloggers are always concern about the cross-platform compatibility of their site so this plugin is helpful for this purpose.

8. Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a powerful plugin that helps you to customize the way a web page displays using small Javascript codes. In other words, you can add Javascript to any web page and make quick changes to it. After that, every time you visit that website Greasemonkey will replace that portion with your javascript code and the change will be permanent.

9. FireFTP

It is a kind of FTP client built into the Firefox browser. It allows easy access to your server through your Firefox browser. It features all the services that a stand alone FTP app has. FireFTP supports multiple accounts, secure transfers and boosts your performance.

The plugin is quite easy to use, install it and then supply all your FTP credentials, drag and drop from your computer to the server and thus the file is updated at the server.

10. Clear Console

This plugin lets you to clear your cache, cookies, history, html5/local storage, logins at a single click. It is analogous to the incognito window in Google Chrome.

This list is based on various parameters. If you think some other plugins should be part of this list then please let us know in the comments below.