A recent article on the Specyboy blog provides a summary of some of the most useful firefox plugins for web designers.  These include the excellent web developer extension which I have used for several years.  A lot of the other plugins perform tasks already covered by the web developer plugin, however there is the odd interesting one.  These include abduction a screen capture tool and  extended status bar which provides information on load speed.  The full list can be seen here, 27 Indispensable Web Design and Development Firefox Extensions.

Download day 2008

It has only been a year and a half since the release of firefox 2 and with Internet Explorer 8 also in development it seems the current level of competition is helping drive the development of improved, standard compliant products.