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FIREFOX - THE 'LEAP FROGGING' BROWSER!
How is FireFox 'leap frogging' all other Browsers while remaining a lean, mean, rendering machine? Two words - Open Source.
If you are not familiar with the term. A few pointers. Why would professionals, geeks and ordinary folk do something for free after coming home from a long days work? The secret lies in the most important reason any of us toil - a feeling of self-worth and accomplishment which is the highest reward for working even above money, position and benefits.
So let us briefly discuss just two FireFox add ons - FireBug and FirePHP and what they do for you.
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By combining both add ons (FirePHP sits on top of FireBug) with a server-side library, your PHP scripts will be able to send debugging information to the browser, handily encoded in the HTTP response headers. Once you’re set up you can log warnings and errors in your PHP scripts to the Firebug console just as if you were developing JavaScript. The 'how to' for the above may be found here.
But if you do not use PHP a host of benefits are found in just FireBug.
• Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time.
• Use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser.
• Accurately analyze network usage and performance.
• Extend FireBug and add features to make FireBug even more powerful.
Itching for more information about FireBug?. You may find it here.
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