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10/03/2009

Web Developer tools for Opera 10 (switching from Firefox)

Just yesterday I decided to completely ditch Firefox and use Opera 10 as my default browser. The chronic issue of memory leaks and excessive CPU usage in Firefox appears to have gotten worse in their latest release and I just couldn't bear with it anymore.

As a recourse I decided to finally switch to Opera 10. I have been using it for awhile and noticed the vast difference in resource usage versus Firefox.

Below is a list of tools and widgets I found useful for web developers using Opera 10.

  • Dragonfly - is Opera's developer tool that is installed by default in Opera 10. It can be accessed via Tools -> Advanced -> Developer Tools. It offers functionalities such as DOM Inspector, CSS/Javascript Error Console, Javascript Console, Network Monitoring and more, it is pretty much like Firefox's Firebug.
  • phpManual - is an Opera Widget which provides the PHP manual. This widget is handy when looking up certain functions without having to search it up on php.net's website, the result just appears inline the widget.
  • CSS Help - provides an expandable CSS 2.1 mini-documentation.
  • Javascript Cheatsheet - as its name implies, provides an easy to browse Javascript Cheatseet.
  • Site Validator - This widget submits the current page to the W3C Markup Validation Service and returns the number of errors found and a link to the actual results. 

There are quite a number of other useful widgets for web developers in Opera's Widget home page. Dragonfly was the one which sold me entirely. I am still looking forward using Firefox again in the near future when the memory leak and high cpu usage issues are addressed.

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