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You just woke up from a 7 year bender with a shiny college degree sprawled across your chest and a job as a web developer at some hipster firm in uptown. So after you pop a couple tic-tacs to remove the smell of stale beer from your breath, you realize that your degree only covered web related topics from the late 90’s and none of that stuff is still in anyway applicable.

Well, fortunately I’m here to tell you some Firefox extensions you can install to help you know what you’re doing.

Font Finder
Font Finder is like that cool graphic design friend that knows people with names like “Chank” and “Spunk”. In a pinch he can tell you whether you are looking at Lucida Grande or it’s ugly step-sister Lucida Sans Unicode.

Foxmarks/Xmarks
This one is just handy. Foxmarks synchronizes all your bookmarks across the Internet so that they’re the same on all the computers you use. Good if you need all your websites bookmarked and available anywhere, bad if you bookmark “not safe for work websites”, then leave your work computer on and your boss uses it to check his Hotmail.

Colorzilla
Remember the good ol’ days when computers only had like 16 colors? Well unless you’re a guest on my personal tour, “1985, The Ben Hamilton Experience” (Only $295.99, includes bus ride and free bologna sandwich), then you have to deal with MILLIONS of colors. Fortunately, for those of us that couldn’t even begin to tell the difference between #fc00ff and #f400f7 there is Colorzilla. This plugin enables you to quickly and easily identify any color in your browser.

Web Developer
Initially here I was going to include the plugin “Navy SEAL” which can kill a pirate with a single click from up to 75 feet away from the back of a warship in choppy water. Unfortunately, according to my peers not only does this plugin not exist, but it’s totally irrelevant within the realm of Web Development. So I chose “Web Developer” which is not nearly as cool, but if you try it out it’ll come in handy.

Firebug
Firebug allows you to easily make website changes on the fly and see real time results in your browser without doing any publishing. Firebug practically does your work for you. There are also several add-ons for Firebug that can extend it’s functionality to debug cookies, analyze speed, and so on.

So that’s it. If you don’t use these extensions then you’re working way too hard. On the other hand if you’re still using Internet Explorer then you’ve got problems that I can’t help you with…