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Web developers can breathe a sigh of relief with Firebug

Ahh... nothing like the sweet smell of website glitches in the morning. The web development junkies here at Download Squad know how it feels to spend hours tracking down stubborn CSS styles that have managed to magically disappear, or have cascaded themselves into places where no man has gone before. We can attest to debugging JavaScript into the wee hours of the night, and trying to get rid of that one extra pixel of whitespace at the bottom of the page until we give up and hope nobody notices.

If the above description fits a lot of your day-to-day activities, and you're a Firefox user, Firebug, something we covered a couple years ago in its infancy, is the extension for you. When we last looked at it, Firebug was a basic JavaScript console with a DOM inspector. However, since then, it's had a couple of layout changes, and has been given features that changed Firebug from a simple developer console to a powerful tool for all aspects of web development.

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Filed under: Developer, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

FireBug: AJAX debugging for Firefox - Today's Browser Tip

FireBugHere's one for the Web 2.0 developers: FireBug. It's an extension for Firefox to aid in debugging JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX web apps. In the words of its developer Joe Hewitt, it's "like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter." Looks like a great tool for the discriminating developer.

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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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