Must Have Extensions For Firefox
As many well know, I am a huge advocate for Firefox. As a user, I like it for a few reasons; its consistent across platforms, tabbed browsing, fairly secure, skinable, and last but not least…extensibile.
The extensibility of the god of browsers is where things really shine for me as a developer…a web application developer. There are two that I use religiously for Javascript debugging, DOM inspecting, CSS tweaking, source viewing, Ajax calls, etc. Here they are. Get them. Use them. You’ll crap your pants.
Web Developer - get it here.
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Firebug - get it here.
FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.
Other fun features:
* XMLHttpRequest Spy - Ever wonder what all them newfangled Ajax websites are up to? Watch the requests fly by in the console!
* One web page, one console - Tired of slogging through a zillion errors in the JavaScript Console trying to find the one you want? The FireBug console is built into the bottom of the browser, and only shows you errors and log messages that came from the page you’re looking at.
* JavaScript Error Status Bar Indicator - It’s a sin that Firefox doesn’t include this by default, like IE does. When there is an error in the page, the status bar will let you know with a big red blob.
* Logging for web pages - Sick and tired of “alert debugging”? Jealous of all your C programmer buddies with their fancy printf? Now you can log text and objects to the FireBug console from any web page. See my website for more info on this.
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And obviously…if you don’t have FireFox (tsk tsk), get it here:
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Posted: May 24th, 2006 at 4:53 amBorkWeb » Firbug 0.4 Released. Can Web Development Be Any Sexier? 1 -
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Posted: Jun 15th, 2006 at 12:00 pmBorkWeb » Flock Reply to this comment.[...] Because Flock is based off of Firefox, many of the extension run for it! So you can still have the must haves. I definately wouldn’t be using Flock otherwise. [...]
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Michal Till
Posted: Oct 22nd, 2006 at 6:17 amReply to this comment.Yes, Firebug is much better than Vankman (JS debugger).
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Posted: Nov 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 pmBorkWeb » JavaScript Shell Reply to this comment.[...] While at The Ajax Experience I noticed a tool that a few of the speakers made use of that was missing from my arsenal. The tool? JavaScript Shell. [...]
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Posted: Jul 30th, 2007 at 3:57 amBorkWeb » Site Speed Analysis With YSlow Reply to this comment.[...] is a nifty little tool to add to your web development toolkit! Yahoo has developed a nifty website speed analysis Firebug extension. Yep. Not [...]
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Cynthia
Posted: Aug 4th, 2007 at 3:36 pmReply to this comment.my firefox keeps saying update failed and you have to say ok and then it starts help
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2007 at 5:30 amBorkWeb » Internet Explorer - Web Developer Toolbar Reply to this comment.[...] a world of FireFox and its beautiful extensions of web-development power, Internet Explorer has been a horrid browser to develop/debug your [...]
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Posted: Nov 11th, 2007 at 6:48 pmBorkWeb » Plymouth State: JavaScript Workshop Reply to this comment.[...] Firefox Extensions (including Firebug) [...]
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[...] One of my must have extensions for firefox has a new version out! Firebug, if you don’t already know, is an Ajax/layout/javascript troubleshooter and is extremely well developed. In version 0.4, Firebug steps beyond the bounds of being a troubleshooter and can now be considered a full fledged debugger. Its new features include: [...]