Mozilla Firefox - I love this browser. Though I don't use most! Yes I am a .Net guy so mostly I am on IE and IE8 is much better now. Any way here in this post I want to tell about FireFox and mainly about the Add-ons / plugins / extensions available for FireFox. There are thousands of add-ons available for FF(you can find them here), but here I am listing only few of them which I mostly use as a web developer.
Latest stable version of Fire Fox : 3.5 (release date: 30-June-2009).
To read more about version histroy visit here.
Official website for firefox is http://www.mozilla.com. You can find more about FireFox at Wikipedia.
Coming to the point, lets discuss about the add-ons that are mostly used by web developers:
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
- "web development evolved" - rightly said at official site of Firebug http://getfirebug.com.
- Can be downloaded from here.
- Version history and its compatibility with FireFox version can be found here.
- Firebug is free and open source (BSD)
If you are a webdeveloper you simply cannot miss this tool. Excellent, awsome, amazing, great, wow whatever you want to say you can say it. It improves productivity of a web developer to a great extent by CSS & JS debugging features. No doubt one of the most important business tool used by development companies.
I mainly use it for tracing CSS issues. JS debugging is really great feature but i like it better in IE8 web developer tools. Besides this firebug has many worth fetures:
- Easily accessable via F12 key.
- Faclity to inspect and edit HTML and explore the DOM
- Inspecting CSS, tweaking CSS on the fly to perfection
- Debug and profile JavaScript, execute JavaScript on the fly, logging for JavaScript
- Monitor network activity
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