Last week, proving one of the most effective open source successes, firefox hit 500+ million downloads. There are no arguments, they have definitely changed the world. Now, in honor of firefox downloads, they are going to change the world in another perspective by helping the Free Rice foundation.

Now, it’s your turn.

Note : Before you read this blog post, if you are a web developer/designer and you have never tried firebug, then stop all your work and try that.

As you might already know, the best tool to debug a web frontend is firebug. It’s really easy and efficient. When you get used to it, you can’t actually live without it.

I was working on a web project for several months now, and there was a very strange behavior on that site. Everytime I go there, firebug stops working. That’s very annoying specially when that site is AJAX (and when there are lot of bugs there ;)).

Today, I found what makes firebug stop. I was using “parent” as a variable name. The site works perfectly with it but firebug didn’t manage to handle that.

If you are a web developer/designer you should have surely checked your site in popular browsers. Specially if you are using css. I always used to use only firefox for the development stages and then later test the sites in IE. But after that i came to aware about the mozilla plugin “IE tab”, it became easier. I started to test the site with IE in the development stages. But recently Nayana have found out that IE doesn’t emulate the Internet Explorer exactly. I dont know what is happening there even when it is using same ActiveX control. However, if you are using IE tab, be careful - just a small warning.