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If youοΎ’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 havenοΎ’t been following the Firebug development blog, you may not know the latest news: Firebug 1.2 has moved from alpha to beta, and itοΎ’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.

Like many a web worker, my browser of choice is Firefox. I favor it because it's less of a target for hackers than Internet Explorer, has good security features, and I make use of lots of useful extensions for it. However, I run both Firefox and Internet Explorer and frequently jump into Internet Explorer when I run into problems in Firefox, or when downloading new applications (this just seems to work more smoothly in Internet Explorer). If you, as I do, use Internet Explorer, definitely look into IE7Pro-a free download add-on that adds lots of useful features to the browser.

Depending on how far back you go with the internet, it's pretty likely that you used to use Netscape Navigator to browser the web.

Mac users are lucky to have Adium, one of the best IM aggregation tools on the planet. On the Windows and Linux side, there are many options, but Anil Dash says Pidgin (formerly GAIM) rocks, and is following the trajectory taken by Firefox, the open source browser.