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FireFox Add-ons for WebCraft
FireFox Add-ons for WebCraft
Dan is an electrical and computer engineer located in Ann Arbor Michigan and holds a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan along with MSEE and MBA degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dan has been using billions and billions of FireFox Add-ons for longer than he can remember.
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Summary
This course has been rescheduled for the April session.
FireFox Add-ons are an incredible resource for web developers as they instrument the FireFox web browser with an enormous number to powerful tools and conveniences that greatly speed up development and increase productivity.
Each week participants will present and discuss a set of FireFox Add-ons that your fellow WebCraft developers use according to the schedule and categories presented below. Other than the organizer setting up the initial schedule, categories and the FireFox Add-ons presented in the first week, this course will be entirely driven by the participants.
Here is the schedule and the six categories of FireFox Add-ons:
Week 1 - Multipurpose
Add-ons: Web Developer, FireBug and FireBug Extensions, GreaseMonkey, JetPack (maybe)
Week 2 - Evaluation
Topics: Validators, Performance, Compliance, Accessibility, Profiling, Testing, Ranking, Cross Browser
Week 3 - Presentation
Topics: CSS, Theming, Font, Color, Image, Style
Week 4 - Source Code
Topics: Formatters, Deminifiers, Lint, Debuggers
Week 5 - Network / Security
Topics: HTTP, DNS, Speed Testers, Whois, IP Lookup, GeoLocation, Headers
Week 6 - Data
Topics: Scraping and Extraction, FTP, Download Managers, Cookies, Storage, Cryptology
Learning objectives
Participants will share and learn what FireFox Add-ons their fellow WebCrafter developers are using by presenting thier favorite Add-ons and exchanging their tips, tricks, feedback and use cases.
Schedule/Syllabus
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course other than having access to the FireFox browser and an interest to learn and share how you are using FireFox Add-ons for web development.
Sign-Up Task
Please note: The sign-up task is listed here as background information. Please only submit your answers via the sign-up form (not as comments or direct messages to the course organizer).
To get the ball rolling, during the first week of the course we will explore the capabilities of three extremely popular FireFox Add-ons: (1) Web Developer, (2) FireBug and FireBug Extensions, and (3) GreaseMonkey. In subsequent weeks we will look at other FireFox Add-ons that course participants submit and present.
Here is the list of the current 1,276 Web Development FireFox Add-ons:
FireFox Web Development Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/web-development/
There are three signup tasks to perform.
Task #1
Watch this video to acquaint yourself with the purpose and philosophy of the Peer to Peer University and the School of WebCraft:
Task #2
Watch this video by Ralph Phillips which demonstrates installing the FireFox browser and several FireFox Add-ons:
Install Firefox and Add-ons for Web Developers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOKYce1zoc
Then proceed to install these three Add-ons:
Task #3
Identify one or more of your favorite FireFox Add-ons and classify them into one of the following six categories so we can discuss it during the appropriate week. If you aren't currently using any FireFox add-ons browse through the Web Developer category of add-ons listed on Mozilla's Web Developer Add-ons web site and select one or more that you would like to learn about. Another way to identify interesting FireFox add-ons is to search sites such as reddit.com, digg.com, slashdot.com or lifehacker.com as they frequently report lists of popular FireFox add-ons.
Multipurpose
Add-ons: Web Developer, FireBug and FireBug Extensions, GreaseMonkey, JetPack (maybe)
Evaluation
Topics: Validators, Performance, Compliance, Accessibility, Profiling, Testing, Ranking, Cross Browser
Presentation
Topics: CSS, Theming, Font, Color, Image, Style
Source Code
Topics: Formatters, Deminifiers, Lint, Debuggers
Network
Topics: HTTP, DNS, Speed Testers, Whois, IP Lookup, GeoLocation, Headers
Data
Topics: Scraping and Extraction, FTP, Download Managers, Cookies, Storage, Cryptology
Buckle you seat belts as your are about to enter the exciting world of FireFox Add-ons and seriously bump up your WebCraft skilz.
Comments
I'd love to take this course,
I'd love to take this course, but unfortunately, I've just started using the Firefox 4.0 beta, and two of the three prerequisite add-ons aren't yet supported. Web Developer seems to have been updated already, but not Firebug nor Greasemonkey (I have the first two installed, and have used Greasemonkey in the past).
I'm very interested in the whole WebCraft thing, and support web standards in general, so I'll stay tuned for more developments.
Have you tried other means to
Have you tried other means to get them working? Or are you just going by what's listed on addons.mozilla? For Firebug, you may be able to use v1.7 beta (production is 1.6). And, the same for GM. You may be able to use a nightly build. And, FF4 is supposed to be released next month so I'm sure it won't be long until they are officially supported. But, I haven't tried any add-ons with FF4 yet, so good luck.
http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.7X/
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/12/how-to-add-greasemonkey-to-firefox-4/
This may be an option to run
This may be an option to run multiple FireFox versions:
http://utilu.com/UtiluMFC/
I have not explored this myself so explore at will.
If you install Add-on
If you install Add-on Compatibility Reporter [1] you should be able to run most of them.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/
Thanks you. see you soon!
Thanks you. see you soon!
Hello every one ! happy to
Hello every one !
happy to join the class , and wish to learn the power of using firefox addons.
Have fun :)!
Thanks for accepting me into
Thanks for accepting me into this class Dan!
Has anyone updated to Firefox
Has anyone updated to Firefox 4.0b9? Firebug doesn't work with it. Any solutions to this problem?
No worries. I got the latest
No worries. I got the latest version from the Firebug website and it works fine.
Could use some help, I was
Could use some help, I was accepted in the class but don't see a syllabus, the syllabus link doesn't open anything, and I've not received any info about the first meeting which is supposed to be tomorrow. With my job I travel and I need to make sure to time things so I'm in a cafe with wifi in time for the class if needed. Can anyone help? Dan?
The starting syllabus is
The starting syllabus is basically on the course web page. I have compiled all the FireFox Addons that people have submitted and organized them into one of the six categories. Tomorrow I will post this list as a more fleshed out syllabus but even this is likely to change as people contribute new Addons.
More information will be forthcoming tomorrow but you will not need to attend to specific hours as we will largely be using a discussion group for the majority of communications and you can catch up and contribute as you are available.
- Dan
Thx
Thx
when in April will this start
when in April will this start up do I review the previous addons