Archive for the Firefox Extensions Category
Published February 4th, 2011
If you work with jQuery, then I don’t think I need to explain why a plugin that shows you any jQuery-related properties of a DOM element would be useful — so go on and get it here. Of course you’ll need to have installed Firebug first (which you should have anyway, duh).
Published June 11th, 2008
Another day, another Firefox plugin plug…well I could drone on about how much fun it is to completely refactor all the exception handling in our large and complex publishing framework, but somehow I don’t think you’d be any more excited about it than I am. So I’ve been breaking up the monotony now and again [...]
Published June 9th, 2008
While Firebug is about as close to a perfect tool for web development as I’ve ever seen, its use as an HTTP monitor is limited — if only because its Net pane is cleared when the page refreshes. In the past I’ve used Fiddler for this job, but of course you need to remember to [...]
Published March 4th, 2008
In the office where I work, we have a number of in-house development and utility servers, some of which use truncated domains: for example, our Trac installation is reachable by using just the domain http://trac/, so in fact you can just type ‘trac’ into the address bar. Quick to type and easy to remember. However, [...]
Published December 5th, 2006
I’ve gushed about Firebug before but I’ve just been tipped off to a new (beta) version (and a new web site) and I thought it was about time I gushed some more. If you’re a web developer and you don’t have this extension installed, then you deserve a slap about the face. Firebug has so [...]
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