How to reduce FireBug’s memory usage

I love FireBug but one day it became a memory behemoth! It was consuming over 800k every hour or so of work. I did a little poking around and found that I had inadvertently set network monitoring, console logging and JavaScript debugging to be on by default. After a little digging, I found the tip [...]

Test driving Internet Explorer beta 2 developer tools

I’ve been playing with the IE8 developer tools and what at first seemed like a promising new UI utility has revealed itself as rather under-whelming and run of the mill. Sure it has typical features such CSS editing and image highlighting, but where’s the state of the art, move the web forward functionality we were [...]