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After posting about Firefox addons i am now posting about Chrome add-ons, and it seems that i am slowly getting addicted to chrome, and the thing is, the lot i hear about chrome’s updates and features, the more excited i get to use chrome instead of Firefox.

Again In this post I am writing about some Chrome Addons, that would be useful to web developers, System Administrators, and also to other Surfers who love surfing the net and downloading.

I won’t say i found the same firefox addons for chrome. but yes, the addons for chrome are increasing and its obvious they will, there’s google behind it.

  Firebug Lite: Benefits over Firebug Lite:
Firebug Lite for Google Chrome is basically the same you’ll see when using the bookmarklet, or including a script tag in your page. There are, though, some benefits by using the extension for Google Chrome, including:

• Browser toolbar integration, providing a quick access to Firebug Lite
• It works without internet connection
• Faster loading and no FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content), once resources will be stored in the extension’s directory on your machine
• Firebug Lite will be loaded before all other scripts, allowing it to capture all console calls and all XHR requests for that page
• It is possible to activate the Firebug Lite for a particular domain, so next time you visit a page in that domain it will be automatically active.

Limitations:

• Cannot read external resources
• Won’t work well on pages with frames
• JavaScript debugger isn’t available
• Net Panel isn’t available

Monster:

Monster is similiar to yslow in firefox. The plugin is a mixture of chinese and english, which makes it unusable for many people. But still a good one.

cqstyle CSS editor:

See CSS edits in real time; slide CSS values across hundreds of variations.

• Type to see results instantly
• Click any value to slide it
• Use arrow keys on slider for fine grain control
• View and edit any CSS file on the page
• Size and arrange editor windows to fit your monitor setup
• Warns before closing so you don’t lose edits

Chrome FTP:

Browse your local disk and download files from your server using this FTP client for Google Chrome.

IP checker:

This one is similiar to show ip in firefox. shows the ip information of the current website.

Domain Details:

Domain Details provides the following information on the site you are visiting:

• Server IP Address
• Server’s Location. Based on a Geo IP database in the extension, does not poll an external service.
• Server Software. Shows icons for common servers.
• View server response headers within the extension
• Domain Whois Links
• Additional links to useful domain information

Videos At A Glance:

This addon gives you a summary of the video and related videos. See what the video is about before you watch it, without having to navigate away from the page. VideoSurf video summaries display selected thumbnails from the most important scenes in a video. you can easily find the video you want, avoid spam and jump to specific moments in a video.

• Google Search
• Twitter Profile Pages
• Twitter Search Results
• Youtube Search
• Youtube Video Page
• Yahoo! Search
• Bing Search
• OneRiot
• Reddit
• Digg
• and more!

Additional Features and Options:

• When watching YouTube videos, click on a frame in the summary to jump to that moment in the video
• Expand shortened URLs (video and non-video) on Twitter
• Enable/disable adult content in Related Videos

Adblock:
This is one another addon i truly would recommend to everyone, whether it be Web Developers, sys admins, or simply Surfers. this is one of the addons that i have been using for a long time in my Firefox (Adblock Plus) and also this was the first addon when i started using chrome. This helps you to block the unwanted popup ads, images and any other stuff that you would like block. with this addon you can block the unwated ads and the images and save a lot of Bandwidth.

I would also like to recommend a couple of post one from technobuzz.net and theother one from tutzone.org.

10 Useful Google Chrome Addons

8 Useful Google Chrome Plugins And Addons

If you know any more good and useful add-ons, please share it with us.

This post i am writing is not the technical or productivity stuff i usually write about, its just i wanted to share about some sites and blogs that i follow through my google reader, they are even on my blog roll, and they give a kind of feel good factor. i recently added Dilbert’s comic strips to my blog roll

Work Awesome: is a blog by the envato guys. its a really cool blog, the posts here are very practical, something you can really try out and somethings which are going on in many peoples office lives or say careers. There’s an article that i would recommend to everyone, “The Importance of Doing What You Love“. this post is really motivating, i did the same with my career , after working for 3 years as a linux administrator and having a quite good experience in administration, and receiving a good pay, i switched my career to web development, because somewhere at the back of my head i knew that web development is something i always wanted to do, so took a risk in my career life and started learning on python and got recruited by a small design firm as a fresher python developer. The pay is quite less compared to what i used to receive as an experienced Linux administrator, but the Best part is I am happy, and as said in the comments “There is nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’re waking up everyday to do what you absolutely love.” There will be stress and pressures but slowly as you get experience you learn to handle them.

Box of Crayons: Do Less good work, Do More Great Work. this is what the blog title says, and you’ll find posts which you give good motivation and inspiration to perform better at your work. From Box of Crayons one thing i would like to recommend is “The Eight irresistible principles of Fun“. its a flash animation and its really good. Have fun at Work.

Zen to Fitness: This one’s a blog on Healthy living. Well, there are many blogs and sites on healthy living and stuff, but this one i really liked and follow through my google reader.

Paulo Coelho: One of the best writers, Author of “The Alchemist“, and many other books, But, The Alchemist is one of favourite novels. Ok, getting back to the blog, yes, this blog has really cool posts about people and life that will make you think, i like the “10 seconds read….” posts, and one of the 10 seconds read post that i loved is the “10 seconds read: Angels Talk“.

West Coast Poppin: west coast poppin, is not a blog on motivation or a blog on healthy living and stuff, its a site about locking and popping dance, you may be wondering why am i mentioning about it ? well, i love dancing specially popping is what i used to do when i was a kid, now as a grown up adult and working in the IT and software field, you never get time to do the active stuff, because 8 – 12 hours of the day you are on that office chair, which doesn’t give any exercise to your body, and it surely takes away all the activeness and flexibility that you might have. And in case of some critical issues or major project launch’s, you even spend you weekends in the office. This website westcoastpoppin gives me a feeling, like i should start dancing again, (may be at least give it a try when alone at home and no one’s watching )
every day i watch at least a couple of dance videos during short breaks or during the lunch hours.
This is like you can follow the blogs or sites that posts about the stuff that interests you, it will make you feel good. And I think if you keep reading blogs or sites that interests you, you will get the motivation everyday and you’ll surely give it a try, at least once. Say, if you like swimming, and feel you wanted to swim or were a good swimmer back in your old days, so, i would say, search for some blog or website about swimmers or something by the swimmers for the swimmers, and if you like read it for even few minutes every day, you’ll surely be motivated to give it a shot at least once.

If you have any blogs or sites or links that you would like to recommend, please share it with me and everyone

Firefox the most popular browser on the web and also my favourite, and I am like addicted to the Net, when there’s nothing to do, I am either surfing the net or Blogging, I really love working on firefox than on any other browser, the two main big reasons, it allows you a lot of customizations than any other browsers and the Addons

In this post I am writing about some Firefox Addons, that would be useful to web developers, System Administrators, and also to other Surfers who love surfing the net and downloading.

Firebug: Its already popular among the web developers using Firefox. Its gives you a lot of editing and debugging features.

• You can inspect and edit HTML.
• You can optimize i.e. make changes to the CSS of the web page.
• You can monitor the amount of time the page takes to load, and firbug can break it down to file-by-file to debug the loading time.
• You can debug Javascript.
• You can easily find the errors in your Javascript, CSS and XML pages.
• Firebug helps you find DOM objects quickly and then edit them on the fly.
• Firebug gives you a good ol’ fashioned command line for JavaScript.
• Firebug gives you a set of powerful logging functions to help you debug your Javascript.

Click to Install Firebug

Firequery: A collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery.

• jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector.
• elements in jQuery collections are highlighted on hover.
• jQuerify: enables you to inject jQuery into any page.

Click to Install FireQuery

Yslow: It analyzes web pages and why they’re slow based on Yahoo!’s rules for high performance web sites.

• Grade View To view an analysis of the page’s performance, choose the Grade tab or click the page’s letter grade in the status bar at the bottom of the page.
• Components View To display information about the page’s components, choose the Components tab. The Components View displays all the components present on the web page. You might look at this view, for example, to see which components could be gzipped to improve performance.
• Statistics View To view statistics about the web page, choose the Statistics tab. This view provides a summary of the total number of HTTP requests and the total weight of the page in kilobytes as well as page weight analysis for both Empty Cache and Primed Cache perspectives.
• JSLint gathers all external and inline JavaScript from the current web page, submits it to JSLint, a JavaScript verifier, and opens a separate window with a report about problems with the page’s JavaScript. The report includes approximate locations within the source of the problem code.
• ALL JS collects all external and inline JavaScript from the page and displays the scripts in a separate window. You might want to use this tool to check which scripts the page actually uses and whether the page is pulling them in correctly.ALL CSS collects all the inline and external stylesheets on the page and displays them in a separate window.
• ALL SMUSH.IT If you click on All Smush.it, Smush.it will be run on all the image components on the page. This tool will tell you which images can be optimized and will create a zip file with the optimized images.

Click to Install Yslow

CodeBurner: Provides searchable reference information and code examples for HTML and CSS. text-based search that matches element, attribute and property names as you type, and a DOM inspector for looking up objects that appear in the source code of any page.

Click to Install CodeBurner

CSS Usage: It is an extension for Firebug which allows you to scan multiple pages of your site to see which CSS rules are actually used in your site. Each time you press “Scan”, the CSS files that are included in the current page are shown with the number of times the rules has been found applied on your page before it.

Click to Install CSS Usage

Fire FTP: fire ftp is a simple FTP application present as an addon which can be added to the Firefox browser. There are various FTP applications available, but why go out of the browser, when you can have a simple and easy way to FTP through your Browser itself.

Click to Install FireFTP

Show IP: After covering on some addons for the web developers we come across to the System and server administrators. This is one of the addons that i use and also recommend and specially i would like to recommend it to all the server and system administrators who are in Web Hosting i.e. working with a Web Hosting provider. This simple little plugin shows the ip address of the current website in the status bar. also some more features that it provides, when you click on the ip address, you’ll get a popup list wherein you can get the DNS info of the website, and netcraft through which you can get to know the OS and which srever is being used, and you can also get the name of the web hosting provider hosting the website, and you can also copy the ip address to the clipboard.

Click to Install Show IP

Server Spy: After show ip this is another one of the addons that i use and also recommend. This is a simple little plugin, it shows the server being used for the website you have opened up. For Ex: if you open up my website pixelsspace.com in the firefox browser, you’ll see in the status bar, it will show you apache/2, this means that the wbe server being used for the website is apache version 2.

Click to Install Server Spy

DNSQueries.com Toolbar: Most of the you sys and server admins may already be familiar with websites like DNSstuff.com, network-tools.com, intodns.com, etc. this is one more similiar website. but i liked the website as it looks simple and soothing. and dnsqueries.com has launched their toolbar for Firefox. The toolbar gives instant access to Domain Health Check, Find IP Neighbors, DNS Query, Traceroute, Ping, DNS Traversal, IP geolocation, SMTP tester, Reverse DNS Lookup, Service banner monitor and many more.

Click to Install DNSqueries.com toolbar

Domain Details: This will add a small info icon to your statusbar, displays the current website’s server software and headers, IP address, location flag, and have quick links to Whois and other domain information. When a page fails to load, links are shown to check cache and server status.

Click to Install Domain Details

Downthemall: downthemall is a download manager and accelerator and my favourite addon, i have used a lot of download managers but this is my favourite, its get added inside your Firefox and also i have also noticed the differnce in downaload speed when using other download managers and downthemall, i truly say, downthemall is better than the others i have used so far. I truly recommend this addon to all the Surfers who do frequent downaloading.

Click to install Downthemall

Video DownloadHelper: download helper allows you to downaload videos and images from many websites like youtube, dailymotion, Porkolt, iFilm and others. You can also convert the downloaded videos to your required video format.

Click to Install Video DownloadHelper

VideoSurf Videos at a Glance: This addon gives you a summary of the video and related videos. See what the video is about before you watch it, without having to navigate away from the page. VideoSurf video summaries display selected thumbnails from the most important scenes in a video. you can easily find the video you want, avoid spam and jump to specific moments in a video.

Click to Install VideoSurf Videos at a Glance

Adblock Plus: This is one another addon i truly would recommend to everyone, whether it be Web Developers, sys admins, or simply Surfers. this is one of the addons that i have been using for a long time in my Firefox. This helps you to block the unwanted popup ads, images and any other stuff that you would like block. with this addon you can block the unwated ads and the images and save a lot of Bandwidth.

Click to Install Adblock Plus

If you know some more good add-ons which would be useful, please share it with me and everyone