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= Extensions = | |||
* Firebug: Unfortunately the key shortcuts cannot be customized it seems. It is an excellent extensions when debugging JavaScript code. | * Firebug: Unfortunately the key shortcuts cannot be customized it seems. It is an excellent extensions when debugging JavaScript code. | ||
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* Rubyfox: Nice theme to relook Firefox. | * Rubyfox: Nice theme to relook Firefox. | ||
= Web Development = | |||
* A really annoying bug seems to be that Firebug / Firefox error console is not able to catch errors present in Prototype Ajax callbacks. Opera has the same problems. When using normal hand-coded Ajax calls, errors are caught but there still seems to be problems. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377347 this bug]. | * A really annoying bug seems to be that Firebug / Firefox error console is not able to catch errors present in Prototype Ajax callbacks. Opera has the same problems. When using normal hand-coded Ajax calls, errors are caught but there still seems to be problems. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377347 this bug]. | ||
* If Firebug starts behaving strangely (not logging JS errors in the console). reinstalling it after uninstalling it may help. | |||
Revision as of 12:53, 3 September 2008
Extensions
- Firebug: Unfortunately the key shortcuts cannot be customized it seems. It is an excellent extensions when debugging JavaScript code.
- Web Developer Toolbar: You can configure this add-on to open a page's source in a tab instead of a window, very useful! Plus you can configure it to open the pages in your favorite editor, but it does not accept command-line argument so you must write a wrapper. You can change the keys shortcuts.
- LiveHTTPHeaders: Extremely useful when you need to analyze what's happening between the browser and the server.
- ColorZilla: Includes an excellent color picker for web design. Unfortunately does not work on 64-bit platforms. Update: does not seem to work anymore even on 32-bit, and latest version (beta 2) prevents Firebug from working.
- HTML Validator: Can be used to see quickly if your pages are W3C compliant. Currently renders Firefox 2.0.0.11 completely unusable.
- Total Validator: Another tool to check page compliance, seems to work better.
- Rubyfox: Nice theme to relook Firefox.
Web Development
- A really annoying bug seems to be that Firebug / Firefox error console is not able to catch errors present in Prototype Ajax callbacks. Opera has the same problems. When using normal hand-coded Ajax calls, errors are caught but there still seems to be problems. See this bug.
- If Firebug starts behaving strangely (not logging JS errors in the console). reinstalling it after uninstalling it may help.