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Everyone has their favorite browser, and each of them have specific strengths. Opera is famous for its performance and outstanding CSS support. Camino users appreciate the Gecko rendering engine, but prefer the native Mac OS X interface.

And of course there are legions of Firefox fans. For me, what really sets this browser apart from all the others is its extensibility, and in particular the many extensions for Web developers.

Before heading to SXSW I ran across one called InfoLister, which lists your installed themes, plugins and extensions. Okay, nothing terribly exciting there (or anything you can't already determine using other Firefox tools). What really intrigued me about InfoLister is a feature that allows you to upload this data as an XML file to your Web server.

Many people have published lists of their favorite extensions for Web developers, but I am constantly testing new ones and removing others I no longer find useful. What I set out to do was create such a list, but rather than building it by hand I would exploit this upload feature by parsing the XML data file and then generate the list automatically. That way, if I add or remove an extension, all I have to do is hit the InfoLister upload button and my list reflects the change.

If you a regular visitor to my site or this blog, then it should come as no surprise I elected to use PHP for the job. There are any number of other approaches you could take to accomplish the same thing and I will make some other suggestions. But this post is not the tutorial nor does it display the results, for that visit the Installed Extensions page. You will even find some sample code there if you're interested in creating a similar page.

So, why not share your own Firefox Extension List?