ErrorZilla: Useful error messages in Firefox

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ErrorZilla: Useful error messages in Firefox

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Sep 5th 2006 at 3:10PM

Ooh, I like this. ErrorZilla is a free add-on (i.e. extension) for Firefox by Eric Hamiter that replaces Firefox's error messages, which are out of the box not completely uninformative, but not entirely useful either, with something much more useful. In addition to the familiar "Try Again" button, ErrorZilla adds five more: Google Cache, Wayback, Ping, Trace, and Whois. I'm especially excited for the Google Cache and Wayback Machine links, which will (sometimes) allow you to view the contents of pages that are down or defunct. Ping, Trace(route), and Whois will perhaps be of less day-to-day use, but still handy for the more technically inclined. Brilliant.

Tags: addon, error, errorzilla, extension, firefox

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Qwfwq said 4:20PM on 9-05-2006

This sounds very useful, thanks for the tip Jordan.

Thomas said 9:19PM on 9-06-2006

This looks great. Now if I can get openDNS to allow browser errors.

Thomas said 9:20PM on 9-06-2006

Turning off typo correction with openDNS will allow this extension to work. Yea!

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