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The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

Posted Aug 28, 2007 21:23 UTC (Tue) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

Using Firebug and Web Developer together is a powerful HTTP/HTML/CSS debugging combination. These tools allow you to get the most out of your browser, as well as debug complex sites and web-facing applications. Don't want a cache in Firefox? Turn it off via Web Developer's Disable -> Disable Cache. Don't want to tell sites where you've been? Disable -> Disable Referrers. And the features which allow you to easily see the impact of CSS element definitions are just awesome. Once you use them, you won't know how you got along without them.

The "Net" page of Firebug is quite nice for tracking down certain kinds of site performance issues - very much like the latency data presented by Keynote System's (proprietary) HTTP response time measurement tools - without all the data center POPs, of course...

A suite of tools that every SysAdmin with web-based applications to maintain should have.


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