Without registering in the FAE website you can evaluate the functional accessibility of a single web page. For registered users it can evaluate an entire website (two to three levels deep), Generate a Sitewide Report that identifies problem pages, Save reports in an account-specific Archived Reports list.

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Yahoo released their Web-based Y! Messenger. It’s fast, look and feel is also very catchy. Give you all Y! Messenger options inside your Web Browser. Doesn’t matter if it is Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari, it’s works with all. A handy answer to Web-based Google Talk and to Meebo. And the domain name http://web.im, it’s so del.icio.us.

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Users of Google’s document and spreadsheet web service can easily access and manage their important documents in one central location. They still would like to be able to back up and archive their files on their own systems. Unfortunately that isn’t so easy. You would have to open each document and choose to export them individually and becomes quite time consuming if you have more than a handful of documents.

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A good article explaining the browser Quirks Mode by Jukka “Yucca” Korpela.

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Tim Sneath, a developer at Microsoft in the UK Developer & Platform Engineering group, giving us a brief introduction about Microsoft’s Silverlight, cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.

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I thought to share Firefox Add-ons I used and I hope these will be very useful for you people as well. Most of add-ons are relates to web design and development stuffs.

I’m maintaining my Firefox Add-ons list in public tadalist, you can check it back for later if there are any new additions.

1. CSS Validator
   CSS Validator is a Mozilla Firefox extension which Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated. For example it will work with http://www.w3.org/ as the URL has a CSS file.
2. del.icio.us Bookmarks
   This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web.
3. DownThemAll!
   DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time!
4. Firebug
   Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
5. Gmail Manager
   Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
6. Gmail Skins
   Skins and other extra features for Gmail. Like, Change the colour/skin of your inbox, Integrate your Google homepage alongside your inbox. This allows you to view weather reports, rss feeds, news headlines, flickr recently added, Google calendar module etc from your inbox, Easily insert images from your Picasa web album in to your emails, Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails, Insert HTML tables and other complex HTML in to your emails, Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal, Fix the navigation in place so that you don’t have to scroll to the top of the page to see it, Zebra stripes on mailbox… etc
7. Google Reader Notifier
   This Firefox extension shows you how many unread items you have in your Google Reader account.
8. Greasemonkey
   Allows you to customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript.Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Mark Pilgrim’s definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how.
9. Html Validator
   HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.
10. JavaScript Debugger
    Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
11. PDF Download
    Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!
12. RankQuest SEO Toolbar
    RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.
13. Save Image in Folder
    Easily save images in personally customized folders.
14. Screengrab!
    It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.
15. SpiderZilla
    Spiderzilla is an easy-to-use website mirror utility, based on Httrack from www.httrack.com.
16. Tab Mix Plus
    Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
17. View Source Chart
    Draws A Color-Coded Chart of a Web Page’s Source Code, Graphically Displays HTML Tag Boundaries, Graphically Defines Tag Nesting Order, Structure and Hierarchy, Adds A Simple but Powerful User Interface *TO* Source Code
18. Web Developer
    Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
19. wmlbrowser
    Simulate WAP browsing by viewing WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages in Mozilla, SeaMonkey or Mozilla Firefox.
20. Yahoo! Mail Notifier
    This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.
21. Stylish
    Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don’t even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately.
22. Gspace
    Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface.
23. GTDInbox
    GTDInbox is a Firefox extension that integrates the highly effective methodology of “Getting Things Done” into the popular email service Gmail.

Above Add-ones are very helpful for me to make my work very easy in my day-to-day work.

If anyone have some useful Firefox add-ons please let me know.

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