Upgraded Firefox
Ubuntu came with Firefox 3.0.2 pre-installed. To upgrade it, I typed 'apt:firefox-3.5' in the Firefox location field. This is a front-end to Synaptic Package Manager that was added to Firefox for the Ubuntu distro.
This installed Firefox 3.5.2 and added an entry in the Applications -> Internet menu named 'Shiretoko Web Browser' (the codename for Firefox 3.5).
On starting the new browser, I saw that it had transferred my bookmarks correctly. However, it did not find a compatible version of Ubuntu Firefox Extensions. I typed 'apt:' and 'apt:firefox-3.5' into the location field and it complained about the protocol name. Maybe this handy feature is gone!
Add-ons for web development
I browsed to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and selected the following add-ons (selected all before restarting Firefox):
- Abduction!
- Bottom Error Console
- ColorZilla
- Console
2 - Dom Inspector
- EditCSS
- Execute JS
- Firebug
- lori (Life-of-request info)
- QuickRestart
- SQL Injection
- SQLite Manager
- Web Developer
- XSL Results
The current version of Html Validator was not available on the Mozilla add-on site on the date when I was installing add-ons. The version on the developer's site at http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ turned out to be incompatible with Shiretoko. Too bad, since this one does validation locally in the browser and does not depend on any third-party sites.
The current version of Selenium IDE was not available on the Mozilla site. I installed it from "Selenium HQ" at http://seleniumhq.org/download/. The install worked fine.
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