FireBug 1.0 Public Beta Released

This morning i was browsing around the net and I came across FireBug a plugin for FireFox. This plugin will help web developers a great deal. It allows you to debug the HTML, JS, CSS on a website. What’s so special about FireBug? Well while you are debugging you may wonder what would it look like if i made this change? With FireBug you can make experimental changes and FireBug will highlight them yellow, it will also render it in the browser.

The part I like the most about FireBug is the Network tab. When you view the network tab you are able to see how fast each element on your site is loading. It also shows how much came from the browser cache. This is a very handy tool. I used it on this site and found that with the Kontera Advertising the main page was taking upwards of 6 seconds to fully load. When I removed the Kontera it brought the load time down to around 2 seconds. It really shows how much external content can slow your site down.

For the Flock users out there, do not forget about the extension converter

Head over to the website and try it out yourself.