What is SOPA and why should you care?

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: Jan 18 2012 | Comments (0)
I have had a flood of emails today from people asking about what SOPA is and was surprised when I looked online and didn’t see any places that explains why SOPA would be a very bad thing. The idea behind SOPA is to stop online piracy and this is a good thing...

How Browsers Work

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: Oct 29 2011 | Comments (0)
How browsers work -behind the scenes of modern web browsers Introduction The browsers we will talk about The browser’s main functionality The browser’s high level structure Communication_between the components The rendering engine Rendering...

New job at Mozilla

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: Jul 25 2011 | Comments (0)
Okay, I have had the job now for over 3 months but I have really been neglecting my blog … after all, you all deserve to know about what we Mozillians are up to and we are doing some awesome things at the moment. I have been contributing to Firebug and Firebug...

Firefox 4, not just another version number!

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: Mar 23 2011 | Comments (0)
So it has been a long time coming, however I am sure that once you have experienced the awesome that the Mozilla developers have produced you will agree…. this is one download worth getting! We have come a long way since I started using Mozilla products. Way...

Firebug Inspector Improvements

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: Jul 10 2010 | Comments (1)
Almost a year since I last posted, I can’t believe it. I am no longer spending time working on Firebug Lite, but am spending my spare time these days working on Firebug’s inspector. There are three versions of the inspector’s highlighter: The...

Firebug Lite – Changes Q4 2008 – Q1 2009

Posted by Mike Ratcliffe | On: May 05 2009 | Comments (0)
We have made a bunch of changes to Firebug Lite over the last few months and it is about time we shared them with you. For those that don’t know what Firebug Lite is it is basically a cross browser version of Firebug. It does not have the Javascript debugging...