We’ve been talking about what makes a great UX candidate, and it’s pretty clear that a great portfolio is one of the quickest ways to convince us that we need to talk. The first problem is that a lot of people looking to get into UX as a career—whether they’re new grads or changing fields—don’t know what goes into making a stand-out portfolio. The second problem is that a UX portfolio doesn’t quite follow the same rules as other design portfolios.

Dig through URLs with mouse right button click (context-menu).

Fresco is a beautiful responsive lightbox. It can be used to create stunning overlays that work great at any screen size, in all browsers on every device.

This extension prevents websites from interfering with your copy and paste actions without waiting for bug 542938 to be fixed. No configuration required, the website will simply no longer notice when you copy or paste text.

Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API. If you use jQuery, you already know how to use Zepto.

The extension provides "Status Text", "Progress Meter", and "Download Status" items. These toolbar items can be moved wherever you want by customizing the toolbars. Behavior of the toolbar items, and other additional settings, can be controlled in the extension preferences.
This extension can also act as a replacement for the Fission extension. There are preferences to show links, status, and progress in the location bar instead of the toolbar items.

Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!
Right click on a textarea, select "It's All Text!" and edit the text in the editor of your choice.
Alternatively, click on the edit buttons added for your convenience. Right click on the edit buttons for even more options, including preferences.

Google Search has the annoying habit of changing the result link when you click it. If you try to copy the link you get some gibberish instead of the actual link. This extension disables this behavior - on any Google domain, without having to configure anything. Simply install and enjoy!

Changes the selected search engine in the search bar by scrolling the mouse over the searchbar or search context menu. Also supports keyboard shortcuts ctrl+k and ctrl+shift+k to change the search engine with the keyboard.

Blind Pig Design is Aaron Awad making prints, posters, logos and illustrations. Have a look.

FO is a graphic design & digital studio hailing from the alps of Austria

This add-on replaces the standard download text of Firefox 3.* with some more detailed information. It displays the total download speed, the remaining size, the total number of files and the remaining time of your downloads (including DownThemAll!).

Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation.

JewelryBox allows you the freedom to manage your rubies, gemsets and gems from a graphical environment. Take advantage of the native OS X application interface with a 100% pure objective-c code base. Out of the box, JewelryBox runs natively on Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Guess encoding of files, show in status bar, convert to UTF-8 from a variete of encodings.

Check your webpage with spacer, contrast and other designer tools.
Spur is a fun and easy way to critique web designs in ways you’ve never done before. Just paste a URL (or upload an image) and you’ll be able to use seven different tools to help you find what’s working (and what isn’t!).

A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website.

The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others.