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Nov 17
2009

Firefox: Developer Friendly Browsing Tool

Last updated: November 16th, 2009

Firefox is one of the best tool available for web developers which equips the developer with code testing and debugging capabilities.

There are many useful firefox options and extensions that comes in handy during software development life cycle and in this article we will be listing few of useful plugins that we commonly use.

To find information related to the page that is getting displayed on the browser click Tools > Page info. This will give you permission settings of a page, security identity of the page, feed url and other page specific information like page content-type, encoding, meta tags used, cookie permission settings etc.

Web Developer extension
Added as a toolbar in firefox, this extension gives CSS related information, page information, outlines page elements, tab index, gives topographic information and many such details.
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Oct 03
2009

Javascript Memory Leak Diagnosis

Last updated: October 1st, 2009

What is meant by Memory leak?
Memory leakage refers to obtrusive memory handling techniques adopted in programs which leads to increased load time and poor performance.

Various scenarios can cause memory leaks which can range from unhandled memory garbage to cyclic references to error in code logic. One best suggestion given in the javascript forums to overcome this problem is to nullify the element once its usage is over.
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