DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - Firefox

Firefox Auto Fill Forms

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:14:00 +0100

I haven't been able to get this AutoFill Firefox extension working yet but it should be sticking with.

Quick Access to cfQuickDocs

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:09:00 +0100

Drop and drop this cfQuickDocs Bookmarklet into your Firefox Links bar and you can get access to the CFQuickDocs website!

Firebug the JavaScript Debugger

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:36:00 +0100

Firebug is a great JavaScript debugger for Firefox. There's also an interesting screencast of how to use it.

Firebug Plugin

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:44:00 +0100

Greg has blogged about a neat looking Firefox plugin called FireBug that be used as JavaScript Console and, as he found out, a way of inspecting XmlHttpRequests when using AJAX.

Web Development with Mozilla Firefox

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:22:00 +0100

A nice presentation that highlights the benefits of Firefox for web devs.

More Firefox Extensions

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:08:00 +0100

Adsense Notifier

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:35:00 +0100

Here's a new extension to add an Google Adsense earnings function. There a Windows version which displays in the System Tray.

Here also are some AdSense Optimization Tips.

More Firefox Extension

Tue, 31 May 2005 16:50:00 +0100

From Christian Cantrell's blog...

Aardvark Firefox CSS extension

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:49:00 +0100

With Aardvark, "As you glide the mouse over the page, you will see a red rectangle framing each element under the cursor. You will also see a little yellow caption showing the HTML element type and its class or id if they exist".

Strict JavaScript Warnings

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:50:00 +0100

A great Firefox tip at gemal.dk shows how to turn on the display of JavaScript warning messages which are disabled by default.

To enable these messages follow these steps:

Type about:config in your address bar
Find javascript.options.strict by filtering on strict
Doubleclick on the item to toggle between true and false
Restart Firefox

Don’t forget that you can filter the messages by clicking on the type of error that you want to view in the JavaScript Console toolbar (ie. click Warning to see only warning messages).

Open Firefox JavaScript Console in a Sidebar

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:04:00 +0100

Here is how you can have Firefox’s JavaScript Console open in a sidebar:

Click on the Bookmarks menu and select Manage Bookmarks…
Click the New Bookmark toolbar button
Enter JavaScript Console as the name
Enter chrome://global/content/console.xul as the location
Check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar checkbox
Click OK

Now you have a bookmark that will open the JS Console in a sidebar!

Firefox Toolbar Tutorial

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:08:00 +0100

This tutorial explains how to create a toolbar extension for the Firefox web browser.

HTML Validator

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:27:00 +0100

HTML Validator is an Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation to Firefox and Mozilla.

The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.
The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.

The extension is based on Tidy. This program, Tidy, was originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. And now extended and improved by a lot of persons.

ColorZilla, PageRankStatus & FoxyTunes

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:01:00 +0100

ColorZilla is an advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer with other colorful goodies for Firefox.

FoxyTunes allows you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...

PageRankStatus displays the Google Pagerank in your browser's status bar.

Fusebox Reloader for Firefox

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:56:00 +0100

Stephen Judd has created a very useful extension for Firefox that reloads the current page with URL arguments to load / parse the Fusebox files. It prompts you for your Fusebox password. Awesome!