10 Best Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Google chrome is maybe the fastest growing browser and was initially held back by web developers due to lack of extensions. But now developers are all over it and there has been a rapid growth in the amount of extensions available for developers, designers, bloggers and internet surfers that it has started to gain share over the web browser market.

Since Chrome is becoming so popular, we decided to share 10 best google chrome extensions for web developers to make their work easier and get faster outputs.

Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Firebug Lite

This plugin has made its mark on firefox and now it’s here to help out web developers on Google Chrome. Firebug gives you access to edit and debug HTML, CSS and Javascript of any page while using your browser.You can even monitor any page for errors and correct them using Firebug Lite.

Well, this version of Firebug doesn’t contain all the features that the original version had, but it offers all the essentials that are required by any developer to carry out his/her projects and also offers a console interface for power users.

Eye Dropper

Do you find a hard time finding the hexcode for a specific color your find over a web page ? Well, this happens to almost all web developers (all the time) and if you’re one of them then Eye Dropper is the perfect extension for you.

With Eye Dropper you can find information like RGB levels and HTML color codde of every element present on a webpage.

How to use it ?

• Choose Eye Dropper from the extensions button
• Click the Color picker button
• Click on the color you want to know about.

Stylesheet Reloader

This extension allows you to directly access the stylesheet for a particular web page and one doesn’t has to waste his/her time skimming through the whole code.

PHP Console

This extension can cut down a great deal on your debugging. It’s pretty hard to code scripts and debugging an already coded script can sometimes really give you a hard time. And this very application eases down this process.

Chrome SEO

If you are using Google Chrome then this is maybe the only extension that you’ll ever require to fetch the SEO details of your competitor’s or your own site. With this extension you can check traffic, backlinks, pagerank, alexa rank,social bookmarks and what not.

MeasureIt!

 

As the name suggest , this extension helps you acknowledge the dimensions of any element present on your webpage.

Pendule

It is a multi-purpose plugin which provides solutions to various tasks like viewing source, hiding images, a color picker, viewing JavaScript scripts, a display ruler, disabling CSS and several script validators.

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem Ipsum Generator helps you generate random content to test your text effects.

Resolution Test

Resolution Test allows you to test your script or web page over different resolutions and can help you enhance user experience.

Internet Explorer Tab

Internet Explorer Tab allows you to get an IE styles tab view on your Google Chrome browser. If you’ve made a transition from an older version of Internet Explorer to Google chrome then this extension would come in handy to get a bit more comfortable with the new browser.

These were the Google Chrome extensions for Web Developers that we found worth sharing, if you’ve got any suggestions share them with us.