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Discovering and Auto-Installing Extensions with Mozilla's Collections

Everyone who uses Mozilla's Firefox browser knows that it gets much of its power from the thousands of useful extensions available for it. Some Firefox extensions are so powerful that they almost qualify as applications unto themselves, as I find to be true with the awesome iMacros extension. As announced on the Mozilla Add-Ons blog today, Mozilla has introduced Collections, which, among other things, will let you click one link to put a whole set of your favorite Firefox extensions on a new installation of the browser. You can find a video showing how Collections works here, and there are already several useful looking Collections available at the Add-ons for Firefox site (see the right side of the page).?


Google Open Sources Page Speed Performance Tool

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To make sure Web pages load quickly and perform as expected, Google uses a Firefox add-on called Page Speed. It's integrated with Web development toolkit Firebug and provides immediate feedback on ways to improve sites that are sluggish to load. Google has announced a decision to open source Page Speed and share it with the Web-building community.



6 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Enhancing the Apps You Use Most

Here at OStatic, we've often covered the most useful extensions for Mozilla's Firefox browser. The extensions, of course, are what make it such a compelling browser to use. There has been a general trend among Firefox extensions toward extending the way the browser helps you get more out of the applications that you use all the time. In this post, you'll find six of the best examples of these app-helper extensions, which you can grab and install in minutes. Whether you use Google, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, applications on mobile devices, or popular development tools, you'll find top-notch, efficiency-boosting extensions here.


OStatic's 8 Most Popular Open Source Resource Collections

Since OStatic's inception, we've done regular roundups on everything from the best Firefox extensions, to free books on open source topics, to top FOSS applications for working with video and digital music. Many of these are good ways to dive into open source applications, plug-ins and communities that you may not know about. In case you missed any of these or are new to the site, here are the eight most popular roundups we've done, including hundreds of our favorite apps and extensions.


Over 15 Top Open Source Tools for Web Developers

Recently, we covered research showing that nearly half of open source developers are focused on applications for delivery in the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are increasingly either employing open source or are built entirely on it. And all of this adds up to an increasing premium on web development skills and good tools for web development in the open source community. The good news is that there are many? open source tools to help you with your web project, and given the costs of web development environments and the like, they can save you a lot of money. Here are over 15 good examples of tools and tutorials, with a few that we've covered before appended at the end, in case you missed them.


Updates from Mozilla: Snowl, a New Firebug, and Extensions for Firefox 3.1

While Mozilla had been targeting today for the code freeze on the third beta of the much-improved Firefox 3.1 browser, it doesn't look like it will make that milestone. Meanwhile, though, there are quite a few updates from the company. Snowl, the company's experiment focused on delivering an in-browser messaging client for Firefox, is out in a new version, there are also updates on the excellent Firebug Firefox extension, add-ons for Firefox 3.1 and more.


Firebug Group Releases 1.2

John Resig, a member of Mozilla's Firebug development team, announced yesterday that the final version of Firebug 1.2 had been released. Firebug is a debugger for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that sits within the Firefox Web browser. It has become an essential tool for Web developers, particularly those who use the modern technique known as Ajax ( asynchronous JavaScript and XML ).



Firebug Lite Reaches Out to Safari, IE, and Even Opera

Many developers know about Firebug - - the highly regardedﾠ HTML/CSS/Javascript investigation and debugging extension for Firefox. But our sister blog WebWorkerDaily notes that it hasnﾒt been any help for chasing problems in other browsers, which often have inferior facilities for figuring out the sources of problems - until now. The release of Firebug Lite offers new hope to those trying to chase rendering and script issues in IE, Safari, and even Opera, WWD reports. Check out the story, and for many more useful Firefox extensions, see our recent superguide.


Firebug Matures, Gets Developers and Hosting from Mozilla

If you're a Web developer, it's a pretty good bet that one of your most important tools is Firebug, an open-source debugger for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax that works inside of the open-source Firefox Web browser. Since it was first unveiled several years ago, Firebug has taken the Web-development world by storm, revolutionizing developers' ability to modify, test, and debug Web applications. In the last month, Firebug has received hosting and development assistance from Mozilla, a change that will almost certainly benefit both the software and the community.



Firebug 1.2: New Beta Version is Good News for Web Devs

If youﾒre a Web developer, you likely already know about Firebug--the amazing web development add-in for Firefox. (It was one of WebWorkerDaily's 6 recommended Firefox extensions for web workers and readers wrote in about it in response to our list too.) But if you havenﾒt been following the Firebug development blog, you may not know the latest news: Firebug 1.2 has moved from alpha to beta, and itﾒs ready for Firefox 3. even though the Release Candidate for Firefox 3 doesn't yet work with many other extensions. WebWorkerDaily has a report on version 1.2's better Javascript debugging, new console and more. Check it out.



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