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Firefox offers a lot of benefits over other browsers. Apart from the well web browser that Firefox is also a web designer’s best friend. You can do about all of your web page testing inside Firefox and make use of it as a tool along with graphic and code editors to assist you design more improved and faster. One of the best advantages is that, it has ability to install add-ons. There are huge amount of great plugins are available for web developers to use to assist them make better websites and make them easier to find the way.

Here we mention some of the exciting features of Firefox which makes it different from others for the web designer’s.

• Page Source: Firefox has really an ingenious source code viewer with code highlighting. You can easily see the code of one part of a full page by its view selection source option.
• Error Console: It is a great tool of Mozilla Firefox that is used for reporting errors in the application chrome and in web pages user opens. It gives the error and warning reports of JavaScript and CSS related errors.
• Page Info: Firefox has really an exceptional tool which is page information tool that lists detailed information about a page.
• Firebug: This extension put a wealth of development tools into your Firefox. This will provide you live debugging on CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.  You can easily copy the code of nice part of site and can use it into your stylesheet through the extension.
• FireFTP: For the developer FTP application is so much important. And FireFTP is an FTP client that you can launch right in your browser’s window. So you don’t need any separate FTP application, if you are a user of Firefox.
• ColorZilla: With this exciting feature you can get a color reading from any part in your browser and can quickly adjust this color, then can easily use of it into another program. It is obviously much better than searching for a particular color code all over in a stylesheet.
• Web Developer Toolbar: A must have option for any web designer. This extension adds a toolbar that has a long selection of webmaster tools and resources. It has ability of view source of CSS easily in new tab, validation of HTML, CSS, Feeds, and many more access. Other it is included with information and manipulation of forms, images, and cookies.
• JavaScript Debugger: This extension offers feedback for JavaScript errors which provides a lot of detailed information to assist you troubleshoot and fix the problem.
• Codetech: It is web designer’s best code editor, can be opened in a new floating window.
• Measure It: This is a simple but very effective feature. It is mainly a ruler that allows you to discover how much space something is taking up on the page.
• YSlow: It is an extension which is developed by Yahoo. It helps to understand why a web page is slow. Here is report card generated that specify why the web page is performing poorly based on Yahoo’s rules.
• Screengrab: This extension allows you to take full mode screenshots of web pages. With this you can capture the visible portion of web page and able to copy it to clipboard.
• Window Resizer: This a great feature which allows you to change between different resolutions and screen sizes for testing your layout.

This is not the end of the list of Firefox web development extensions and benefits. Here are also lots of extensions and benefits of Firefox for web designers. You can find regularly new addition and update of Firefox web development extensions, you can easily add that to our comments and we will love to know about them.

Beta 2 version of Mozilla Firefox 3.1 has been released and is now available on Mozilla official website. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is a free preview release proposed for developer testing and community view. It contains many latest option as well as web compatibility, expansion to performance, and speed rate.

This objective is paying attention on testing the core functionality and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. The public beta of Mozilla’s first web browser to integrate a private browsing mode is being made obtainable to the normal user, which is the best option of this feature. This beta version has feature to do private browsing mode, in the no frills packaging that developers have assured. In this mode make it is easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or removes all traces of a website of where the user has been, are not recorded for the duration of the session. In this version it is also appear able of the improvements of the Gecko layout engine, including approximate parsing for quicker content rendering. The new Trace Monkey JavaScript engine is invented to speed up web functionality by orders of magnitude. It is one other significant feature that could make v3.1 very important for Mozilla. This beta is now also available in 54 languages and has new support for web worker threads.

So for testing purposes you can download it now and can enjoy the new exciting features.

At 26, November07 Mozilla Foundation has announced a latest directed donation giving program, for which, donors now have the option to direct their donations to a set of Mozilla projects. It is really a great way which will allow fans and users of Mozilla’s open-source applications to channel their contributions to their favorite products. Now users have the opportunity of directing their assistance to one of Mozilla’s four selected projects, which are Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and Mozilla accessibility. With these four options they are continuing to accept unrestricted donations.

From now Mozilla will take note to keep track of the amount of money donated to each project and will work with the individual project teams to identify and fund appropriate project. If no suitable program can be identified or a project becomes immobile or otherwise ineligible to receive the money, the Mozilla Foundation will come up with some admirable project-related ideas to fund using those designated donations.

Since the Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit foundation, so in a press release, Mozilla clarify that the directed charitable agenda is planned to open up new opportunities for users to be connected with the Mozilla project.