Dust-Me Selectors: Now Compatible With Firefox 3!

By James Edwards | June 24, 2008 | Web Tech

Today we released Dust-Me Selectors Version 2.1, the handy Firefox extension that trawls through your style sheets and cleans up unused selectors.

The primary change with this version was to add support for Firefox 3. Making this change wasn’t a difficult task for me — all I had to was upgrade to Version 1.0 (beta 3) of base2, and add a couple of UI tweaks.

Firefox 3 support aside, you should notice no huge difference in the performance or feature set.

For more information, to read documentation and to install the new version, check out Dust-Me Selectors on sitepoint.com.

Incidentally, if you’re interested in getting the most out of Firefox 3, you might like to check out our free eBook, Firefox 3 Revealed, available for download now.

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James Edwards

James Edwards (aka brothercake) is a freelance web developer based in the United Kingdom, specialising in advanced JavaScript programming and accessible website development. With more than ten years' professional experience in the field, he is a published author, a frequent blogger and speaker, and an outspoken advocate of standards-based development.

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brothercake March 22, 2009 at 5:04 am: What aspect of it doesn’t work? I’m aware that the spider can’t read sitemap files from the local filesystem, but apart from that it should all be fine?
On a side note – have you considered using a local server for development? You’ll find it a lot more productive.
sandiegoscott March 22, 2009 at 3:45 am: Dust Me (v2.11) doesn’t work for a site located on a local drive, so can’t be easily used for development. Why is that?
axing January 23, 2009 at 2:28 pm: v2.11 doesn’t support with portable firefox 3.0.5.
I installed v2.11 on my clean portable firefox 3.0.5, but it keep crashing while starting up firefox. :(
Any solution?
WebSupport July 30, 2008 at 10:00 pm: Is there a limit to the size of the site map that this plugin can spider? (or the size of the resulting datafile). I have a large site, the complete sitemap is about 20meg. I had to divide it into four parts to get it to run (and it takes about a day to parse each file). It seems to stop towards the end and won’t go any further…
brothercake July 17, 2008 at 10:44 am: Sorry, my bad! Please grab the 2.11 update and you should be fine.
killerog13 July 15, 2008 at 5:04 pm: Hmmm, it says that it isn’t compatible with Firefox 3.0.1.
Anonymous July 10, 2008 at 11:43 am: Any plans for checking embedded stylesheets as well as external stylesheets?
P.S. Hello James and Ben.
MarvinLeRouge July 7, 2008 at 6:44 pm: Thanks A LOT (i starved for this update :D )
Jas July 1, 2008 at 7:05 am: Firefox could not install the file at
http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/dustmeselectors-2.1.xpi
because: Not a valid install package
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stopsatgreen June 30, 2008 at 7:28 pm: Could this not be hosted on addons.mozilla.org so that we get notified of updates?
DavidTan June 28, 2008 at 9:51 pm: sounds good for a bit of css optimization
tuna June 28, 2008 at 12:08 pm: nice, use this extension quite a bit
BPartch June 24, 2008 at 4:05 pm: Great, I have been waiting for this. :)