Tag: DEBUG

About:support, which has long been the best way to troubleshoot Firefox, can now be used in your other favourite Mozilla product: Thunderbird. It produces an easy-to-read table with all of the debugging info you might ever need: your current version number; installed extensions; your IMAP, POP and SMTP settings; and your modified preferences -- really, everything you might want to know in a ...

If you're trying to work out bugs in a new application, automatic crash reports can be extremely helpful. It's the kind of thing that could really come in handy if you were trying to polish off a mobile version of a web browser, for example. Not suprisingly, the team at Mozilla feels the same way. In the latest nightly builds of Firefox for Android, crash reporting has been turned on. The ...

IBM will have a tool out by the end of the year that will assist business analysts and non-programmers with writing a bit of simple AJAX code to make their websites pop a bit or be a little more interactive. The tool will be available in November as a trial version. They want the tool lower the barrier of entry for using AJAX in your web app, especially if you are not currently a programmer. The ...

Here's one for the Web 2.0 developers: FireBug. It's an extension for Firefox to aid in debugging JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX web apps. In the words of its developer Joe Hewitt, it's "like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter." Looks like a great tool for the discriminating developer. ...