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FireBug
jhm – Wed, 2006 – 08 – 02 14:08
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.
Firefox tips
jhm – Mon, 2005 – 09 – 26 05:52
This page contains various tips and tricks for Firefox. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you're not familiar with basic file and folder usage. The tips are divided into four categories and sorted by importance/popularity.
Mozilla/Firefox about:config
jhm – Tue, 2005 – 02 – 15 13:51
Would you know it. I am using Mozilla/Firefox for an eternity now, and I still go and edit the config files by hand.
Today I learned that one can just type "about:config" into the address field and voila, access to all configuration variables right in the browser.
Tutorial: Creating a Mozilla Extension
jhm – Thu, 2004 – 12 – 30 09:02
A Mozilla extension is an installable enhancement to the Mozilla browser that provides additional functionality (for example Linky, which adds an item to the context menu for opening multiple links in a document or selection). This tutorial walks you through the process of building a Mozilla extension that adds an icon to Mozilla's status bar showing the current status of the Mozilla source code (i.e. whether or not the latest version of the code is compiling successfully and passing tests). The extension will access Tinderbox, mozilla.org's webtool for tracking source code status, to get the status of the code.