August 13, 2005
Web Developer Extension for Firefox and Mozilla
Chris Pederick has created a truly useful tool for not just developers of websites but anyone trying to troubleshoot pages or work with developers. Web Developer is a Mozilla/Firefox extension that adds a toolbar to your browser (Firefox or Mozilla only) that allows you to perform myriad functions including:
- View and edit the style sheet
- Disable the browser cache, cookies, image animations, images, Java, JavaScript, page colors, popup blocker, referrer logging, styles;
- Validate HTML, links and CSS using the W3C validation service; RSS feed using Feed Validator; and, Section 508 and WAI compliance using the Cynthia service;
- Display a speed report for the page using the Web Site Optimization service
- Clear the browser cache, browser history, browser HTTP authentication, or session cookies;
- Display elements or anchors on the page; div, form and table elements; full path of all links; tab index of all form elements; all cookies; any JavaScript in the page; response headers.
And it is all infinitely customizable.
I installed the product when I needed to do some work with colors on a website I'm developing. And though I'm not doing much of the coding, it was useful for me to be the one to play around with colors in the style sheet instead of paying my programmer to do that.
A link checker we wrote was making some mistakes so using the "Display response header" feature made it easy to sort through the link checker's mistakes versus real problems with web pages we were linking to.
Ever wonder which cookies were being placed on your computer by a website...click on "Display cookies" to find out.
This is a great, [free] product for anyone using a Mozilla browser. Kudos to its creator!
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