{"id":329,"date":"2008-07-22T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-04-20T02:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:46:58","slug":"firefox-firebug-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/firefox-firebug-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"FireFox FireBug Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Get the FireBug Plugin\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1843\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firebug-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-345\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve mentioned my <a title=\"Introduction to FireBug for FireFox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/firebug-is-way-handy\/\">fondness for FireFox FireBug<\/a> before so when I read about the <a title=\"Plugins to Extend FireBug\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/2008\/07\/the_five_best_firebug_extensions\/\">5 Best FireBug Plugins<\/a> I knew I had to share the news.  It seems FireBug is popular enough to warrant its own subset of &#8220;plugins&#8221; or &#8220;extensions&#8221;.  Nifty.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 5 available plugins:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Site Performance Report\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/5369\">YSlow<\/a>: Creates a report grading the speed of any site.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Manage Cookies From FireBug\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/6683\">FireCookie<\/a>: Lets you inspect and modify the cookies a site is using.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Debug PHP Header Data\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/6149\">FirePHP<\/a>: A PHP Debugging tool used to examine PHP header data.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Transparent Overlay to Tweak CSS\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/7943\">PixelPerfect<\/a>:Overlays a transparent image guide to help tweak CSS.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Code Syntax Coloring for Scripts\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/7575\">Rainbow<\/a>: Color coding for scripts inside FireBug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found <a title=\"Tips to Analyze Page Load Performance\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yslow\/\">YSlow from Yahoo!<\/a> to be the most interesting.  <a title=\"Yslow User Guide and Help\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yslow\/help\/\">YSlow uses 13 rules<\/a> to grade your page&#8217;s performance and presents the results in a well-formatted series of tabbed views.  When combined with the information found in Yahoo!&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/performance\/index.html#rules\">Best Practices for High Performance Web Sites<\/a> this FireBug plugin will definitely help you understand why your page is loading slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of 5 plugins for Firebug the web development plugin for Firefox: YSlow, FireCookie, FirePHP, PixelPerfect, and Rainbow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,44],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-firefox","tag-plugin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}