Happy New Year! If you haven’t checked your Firefox Extensions window for available updates lately, now’s the time. Version 1.0 of the Web Developer extension for Firefox, Mozilla and Flock was released on December 31st, with a huge list of mostly minor updates.
One of the new features that I really love is the ability to open the DOM Inspector and JavaScript console as Firefox sidebars.
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January 4th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Finally! Thanks for the heads up :)
January 4th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Thanks for lettings us know :)
January 4th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Thanks for the heads up.
January 4th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
thanks for letting us know
January 5th, 2006 at 8:40 am
I tried it last night and it was worth the trouble.
January 5th, 2006 at 11:33 am
I installe dit and find it useful for diagnosing issues. - thanks for the referral
January 6th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Is anyone else having trouble with the new Developer Extension locking up Firefox? If Firefox decides to automatically check for updates, I can do nothing else but that and then shut down Firefox and restart it, even with no new updates available. This only since installing the latest Developer extension. I turned of auto updates and it works fine, but I like to automatically get them.
January 7th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Uninstall the extension and reinstall it. It should fix the problem with the 1.0.0 update of the extension.
January 7th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Anyway to have the javascript debugger ignore CSS errors?
January 7th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I’ve seen a way to do this, but I can’t remember if it’s v1.5 that takes care of this, or if it was an extension…
January 8th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
The upgrade doesn’t work. You have to uninstall the previous version of the Web Developer Toolbar and install the new version. At least with firefox 1.0.7
January 10th, 2006 at 2:31 am
The following link will allow you to debug Javascript and CSS separately, it was an extension afterall:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1815&application=firefox
January 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 am
I have been looking for a comprehensive tool like this for months. So far it looks to be fantastic. Thank you
February 20th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I have been using this extension since a long time, i i find this extension to be of gr8 use, from a designer as well as a developer point of view.