Posts tagged with: firebug

Firebug, or the lack there of, WAS the only thing stopping me from using Firefox 3 on a more permanent basis, especially now it's much faster and integrates better on the Mac and given that Safari seems to be quite selective at what it caches. But not anymore. With Firebug being such a great tool, I couldn't believe they would take so long to come up with a release that is Firefox 3 compatible, but everytime I fired up Firefox or checked the plugins, there was never a compatible version available. So instead of relying on the plugin, I ... Continue reading ►

First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It's installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed. YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on compliance with Yahoo's performance rules and provides a link to each rule, and lists each component it believes could be improved. Each of these "rules" have their own weighting too. This all sounds good, so I thought I'd put it to the test against my sites to see what it had to offer, and see what changes I could make to improve the overall impression of the performance of my sites. Continue reading ►