Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Firefox 1.0

Firefox (previously Firebird) is an open source browser based on Mozilla code. Its popularity exploded in the development community for being small, fast, and highly standards compliant. It also offers features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blockers, integrated Google search, and better security than Internet Explorer, enabling Firefox to be the first browser to take a bite out of IE’s market share. Because it is open source, many useful extensions have been created for it (see the sidebar, "Web Developer Extension for Firefox“).

Download and find out more about Firefox at the Mozilla web site, http://www.mozilla.org.

Web Developer Extension for Firefox

Web developers are raving about the Web Developer extension for Firefox created by Chris Pederick. The extension adds a toolbar to the browser with tools that enable you to analyze and manipulate any page in the window. For example, you can edit the style sheet for the page you are viewing or apply your own. You can get information about the HTML and graphics on the page. It also allows you to validate the CSS, HTML, and accessibility of a web page.

Download the Web Developer extension at http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/.

For a complete list of Firefox extensions, including others for web developers, go to https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox/.