When it comes to web development tools for the Firefox web browser, Firebug is usually named at the top of everyone’s list. The program integrates well into the Firefox browser, offering tools to edit, debug or monitor outputs for web pages on the Internet and local web pages that are still in development. Firebug 1.9 [...]

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Even the most experienced web developer has to look up HTML properties and CSS elements from time to time. Several websites like the official W3C website offer references online, and some web development tools have references integrated in the app. Codeburner, a free tool for the two web browsers Firefox and Opera, the Mac OS [...]

Categories: Firefox, Mac, Opera, Web Development

The Firefox web browser offers an user several ways of manipulating web sites in realtime. The article discusses several of the possibilities that are available ranging from popular Firefox add-ons to userscripts and other means of website manipulation. We would like to encourage you to post additional tips and hints about website manipulation in the [...]

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Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]

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Firebug is a very popular extension for the Firefox web browser that allows web developers to access loads of information about any website that they work on. Among the information are the objects that get transferred, detailed CSS and HTML information, JavaScript debugging and more. The Firebug extension divides the screen in an upper and [...]

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Opera Dragonfly Alpha has been released by the Opera developer team, rather silently so to speak. The Dragonfly feature is already build in Opera 9.5 beta 2 which can be downloaded from the Opera ftp site. Opera Dragonfly Alpha can be started in Opera by going into the Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools menu. Opera Dragonfly will be [...]

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If you use Firebug and visit Gmail you receive a message “Firebug is known to make Google Mail slow unless it is configured correctly” which was not known by me. Google suggests to disable Firebug for the Google domain completely which should not be a huge problem normally.

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

Did you know that you can download mp3, video and other files from almost any website with just a little effort ? All you need is Firefox, the Firefox extension Firebug and a download manager. This knowledge is especially helpful if the tools you normally use to download videos or mp3 does not work on a website.

Firebug is actually a great web development extension for Firefox which does also list all objects that are loaded with their full url on the server. I suppose you are already seeing where this is going, huh ? You just have to take a look at the objects and filter out the largest files which are most of the time the media files. Copy the url from that file and paste it into your download manager to download the mp3, video or other media file.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Hacking, Music and Video