Ajaxian has a post up this morning on Jiffy, a Firebug plugin “that adds a new tab showing fine grained performance data. You want to know the time between the onunload of the previous page, the first rendering, time until onload, time after, and more.”
The Ajaxian article has a nice overview, and the post by Bill Scott (Rico, ex-Yahoo, now @ Netflix) is really detailed and worth reading. Good stuff.
I’ve been putting off upgrading to FF3 only because I know it’ll mean that at least some of my stuff won’t work. Whether it’s a web site I use often or a plugin (like Firebug), my official policy is to wait a month or two until I start using a new browser.
Given that it’s rather difficult to run multiple versions of browsers side by side (why do they do this? certainly the developers of these things have to be able to switch around from one version to another, right?), this often means using a virtual machine for my testing.
Well, not anymore (for OSX users at least): MultiFirefox
Last week saw the final release of MooTools 1.2. The difference between MooTools 1.11 and 1.2 is tremendous and I encourage you to read up on the posts there about all the new goodies to be found in the latest release.
Hot on the heals of that release is our release of CNET’s plugin repository refactored for 1.2. I’ve posted about what’s new before but I’ll give a quick overview of what’s on offer and what’s new:
We’ve done a fair amount of QA (with the above listed test suites) and officially support Safari, Firefox (we haven’t done much testing in FF3 just yet but don’t expect any issues), IE 6, 7, and 8. We’ve tested in Opera and have found one or two small issues that we’ll address.
Still on the to-do list:
As always, if you find any bugs you can contact us and we’ll address them as quickly as we can.