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Web Developer 1.1.8 and User Agent Switcher 0.7.2

Upda­ted patch relea­ses for both the Web Deve­lo­per and User Agent Switcher exten­sions have been released.

This ver­sion of the Web Deve­lo­per exten­sion fixes an issue where the ‘View Gene­ra­ted Source’ fea­ture did not work as well, as com­bi­ning the Fire­fox and Sea­mon­key ver­sions of the exten­sion into one build. The User Agent Switcher exten­sion release should hope­fully fix the pro­blem with impor­ting user agents in nes­ted fol­ders once and for all.

Apo­lo­gies for the fre­quent upda­tes, but hope­fully these will be the final patch relea­ses before the next major relea­ses of the extensions.

Chris Pederick

1 year ago on June 30, 2009 35 comments

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  1. ACCF (Brasil) says:
    July 1, 2009 at 04:53

    The Web Deve­lo­per trans­la­tion for Bra­zi­lian Por­tu­guese is very bad.

    Please, fix it or exc­lude this bad translation.

    Thanks!

  2. Chris Pederick says:
    July 1, 2009 at 09:05

    I added an item in the FAQ about this, but basi­cally all sup­port requests for the loca­li­za­tions should go to the loca­li­za­tion authors at Babel­Zi­lla.

  3. JGL says:
    July 2, 2009 at 17:56

    Thanks for the Fire­fox 3.5 update!

    Great deve­lop­ment tool. Thank you!

  4. lars says:
    July 10, 2009 at 12:48

    No apo­lo­gies, Chris! You’re doing great work and I hope you’ll be enjo­ying the Wee­zer album.
    Thanks
    lars

  5. pip says:
    July 17, 2009 at 23:31

    thx for that great add-on. i often use it to detect cloa­king or emu­late mobile agents and it’s really saving time. thanks so much

  6. po says:
    July 22, 2009 at 10:13

    A great piece of work.
    Sug­ges­tion: under Infor­ma­tion -> View docu­ment size, have an option to exc­lude anything already cached (e.g. sty­lesheets, graphics).

  7. Chris Pederick says:
    July 22, 2009 at 15:09

    po — I’ll look into this for a future release.

  8. Mark says:
    July 23, 2009 at 06:48

    Any news on when a 3.5.1 update will be issued?

  9. Chris Pederick says:
    July 23, 2009 at 07:45

    Mark — both exten­sions are mar­ked com­pa­ti­ble with Fire­fox 3.5.* so they already work with Fire­fox 3.5. If you are having pro­blems please read the ins­ta­lla­tion help documentation.

  10. Bob says:
    July 27, 2009 at 22:11

    I am also having pro­blems with web deve­lo­per in fire­fox ver­sion 3.5.1. It was fine until fire­fox upda­ted to 3.5.1 then it disappeared

    I have gone through the ins­ta­lla­tion docu­men­ta­tion and nothing see­med to help.

  11. DaForum says:
    July 28, 2009 at 05:43

    It works fine for me with 3.5.*

  12. funtoosh says:
    July 28, 2009 at 05:54

    @bob: for me, it was a loca­li­sa­tion pro­blem, 1.1.6 did not upgrade to 1.1.8 (i sup­pose because it was mis­sing the ger­man loca­li­sa­tion). after manually ins­ta­lling 1.1.8, everything was fine and fast and com­pa­ti­ble as ever.

    big thanx to chris, as always!! ;~}

  13. Bob says:
    July 28, 2009 at 06:45

    I did ins­tall 1.1.8 manually and still nothing. It shows up in my exten­sions but that’s it. I have unins­ta­lled fire­fox and re-installed it and gone through the ins­ta­lla­tion docu­men­ta­tion but still it does not show up. I run win­dows XP. I can live without it but it would be nice if I could get it back

  14. Chris Pederick says:
    July 28, 2009 at 07:06

    Bob — if the exten­sion is ins­ta­lled, but the tool­bar is not dis­pla­ying then please read this post in the forums.

    Also, please post any further sup­port ques­tions in the forums — blog com­ments are not the place for sup­port as noted in the com­ment gui­de­li­nes below.

  15. Bob says:
    July 28, 2009 at 07:38

    Thanks Chris
    I chec­ked it out but it didn’t help. I will check the forums and post there.

  16. Bob says:
    July 28, 2009 at 07:57

    Thanks I finally got it.

  17. Kristian Hollund says:
    August 10, 2009 at 12:24

    Finally I got the update for FF 3.5, somehow the update fai­led every time so I thought you never upda­ted it. I feel hel­pless without this exten­sion :) Keep up the good work!

  18. Peter says:
    September 16, 2009 at 17:34

    Nice tool. I like the user agent switch to a robot. ;)

  19. rob says:
    September 18, 2009 at 19:50

    I love user agent. I just need to know on why is that when I close the brow­ser the agent go back to default and do not stay as chec­ked once I re-open the brow­ser again? Thanks.

    Rob

  20. Chris Pederick says:
    September 19, 2009 at 08:25

    rob — please read the FAQ.

  21. Richard says:
    September 21, 2009 at 22:32

    Your site forum seems to be down. I’m get­ting php error mes­sage about /home/758/domains/chrispederick.com/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php missing.

  22. Chris Pederick says:
    September 21, 2009 at 23:39

    Richard — Thanks — it’s fixed now.

  23. Zach says:
    September 23, 2009 at 07:19

    Great exten­sion, Thanks!

  24. johann says:
    September 28, 2009 at 10:49

    i love both of these exten­sions — they’re steady and often called upon com­pa­nions, have been for years now :)

    heres an addi­tio­nal use of use­ra­gents­witcher i have actually star­ted to use it for: the­res a web site of mine which i moni­tor with log emails (get an email every­time someone goes to that site). now i dont want to get that email when i go to that site (at dif­fe­rent pla­ces with dif­fe­rent ips) and try out things on that or so. so i simply exc­lude a brow­ser called the regu­lar fire­fox string (Mozilla/5.0 (Win­dows; U; Win­dows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 bla­bla­bla…) and add a code that only i know. thus i can exc­lude my own hits to that site and am not nothe­red by the log emails.

    please con­ti­nue these awe­some exten­sions!
    johann

  25. Amit says:
    October 1, 2009 at 22:08

    I am not able to down­load this exten­sion. In my fire­fox I try all the ways to down­load. But still not able to down­load. Plz send me the extension.

  26. Chris Pederick says:
    October 1, 2009 at 22:33

    Amit — Please read the help.

  27. Roger Cornwell says:
    October 30, 2009 at 09:44

    Sea­Mon­key 2 was offi­cially relea­sed a cou­ple of days ago and when I try to ins­tall, I get the mes­sage ‘not com­pa­ti­ble with Sea­Mon­key 2.0′. From what I read in the release notes (for Sea­Mon­key) they have moved it a lot clo­ser to Fire­fox. I’m gues­sing that the pro­blem may be more to do with the checks than with the code. Any plans to test it against Sea­Mon­key 2.0?

  28. Chris Pederick says:
    October 30, 2009 at 10:05

    Roger — Please see my post in the forums.

  29. Roger Cornwell says:
    October 30, 2009 at 10:11

    Just to update my pre­vious post: I unpac­ked the XPI file and edi­ted the install.rdf to change the maxi­mum Sea­mon­key release to 2.0 and then pac­ked the result, ins­ta­lled, and it seems to be wor­king. The code I chan­ged is right near the end and now reads:

    {92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}
    2.0
    1.0

    (It’s the line with Max­Ver­sion that I changed.)

    So thanks to Chris for this very help­ful code. To every­body else: your mileage may vary, this is an expe­ri­ment, don’t blame me (or Chris) if it doesn’t work.

  30. Roger Cornwell says:
    October 30, 2009 at 10:29

    Sorry — I had a search around and did not spot your post. And also sorry to learn you’ve been under the weather, I hope you’re bet­ter now. And here, I hope, is the code I should have pos­ted (I had not rea­li­sed that Word­Press would take my input as HTML):

    <em:targetApplication>
    <Desc­rip­tion>
    <em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id>
    <em:maxVersion>2.0</em:maxVersion>
    <em:minVersion>1.0</em:minVersion>
    </Description>
    </em:targetApplication>

  31. Cristiantheevil says:
    November 26, 2009 at 04:59

    I would like to add an option to recharge the menu style sheets CSS. Like this: http://david.dojotoolkit.org/recss.html

  32. Chris Pederick says:
    November 26, 2009 at 07:34

    Cris­tianthee­vil — ‘Reload Exter­nal Con­tent’ is already on the to-do list.

  33. maxpower9000 says:
    December 11, 2009 at 01:05

    Web­De­ve­lo­per 1.1.8 throws an unne­ces­sary “War­ning: Mis­sing clo­sing ’)’ in nega­tion pseudo-class ‘a’.” which is trig­gers by the jQuery selec­tor syn­tax: $(‘a[target=“_blank”]:not(li a)’)

    The :not() syn­tax in jQuery is enhan­ced, com­pa­red to the CSS stan­dard, so it appears to me, as if WD puts out a war­ning, since it checks for CSS com­pliance only.

    I’m just saying! Greaaaat tool, though!!! Thanks a lot!

  34. Chris Pederick says:
    December 11, 2009 at 08:13

    maxpower9000 — The errors all come from the brow­ser and are just dis­pla­yed by the exten­sion so any issues should be repor­ted to Mozilla.

  35. cob says:
    December 18, 2009 at 05:35

    Thx for share this big Addon.
    Glad Christ­mas! And Happy New Year .
    The Ger­man Trans­la­tion is ok.

    Thx Thx Thx :)

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