This brand new specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. When implemented, this will help track web pages frontend performance.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691/
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A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results...
very neat and useful indeed!
Bouncer is a real time statistics and security engine written in PHP5. It analyses the browser or bot version, and detects eventual bad behaviors in order to prevent spam.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnbbfjbeaefgipfjpdabmpadaacmafkj
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Firebug Lite easily integrated into Chrome. Even if I am not a fan of Chrome, because of the omnipotence of Google, I find this tool very useful as a debug facility.
The description says: "Offers the possibility to display documents in browser window.". A great addon for when debugging XML / json / whatever content type Firefox wants to open in an external editor
A complete focus on web browser performance-related questions, from a lot of point of views : javascript, network, painting, caching, client-side database, etc.
http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/02/05/
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The announcement of Carakan, Opera's new ECMAScript Engine, using register-based bytecode instruction set. The first benchmarks show that Carakan is about two and a half times faster at the SunSpider benchmark than the ECMAScript engine in Presto 2.2 from Opera 10 Alpha.
http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
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Yahoo has unveiled BrowserPlus, a brower plugin that adds some features to the browser. They explain : "BrowserPlus? is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities."
Internet Explorer 7 scores an abysmal 90522ms. (...) IE8-beta2 scored at 9542ms. But, for reference, in the same virtual environment Firefox "Minefield" was still able to pull off 1873ms. So, as while still no where near as fast as the other guys, IE8 is lightyears ahead of IE7 in its javascript performance.
https://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2008/10/fennec-m9-user-experience-alpha/
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Mozilla is releasing desktop versions of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox targeted at being the concurrent of Iphone's Safari. As for the first tests, the user experience is rather convenient. It's w00t to be able to use flash on mobile devices!
http://pellet.owldl.com/ontology-browser/
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OwlSight is an OWL ontology browser that runs in any modern web browser; it's developed with Google Web Toolkit and uses Gwt-Ext, as well as OWL-API. OwlSight is the client component and uses Pellet as its OWL reasoner.
https://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly
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Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.
http://browser.zitgist.com:8890/
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Zitgist (pronounced "zeitgeist") is an industry standards compliant Semantic Web Query Service. Its goal is to help Web users locate data, information, and knowledge on the Web.
Zitgist is based on a new search paradigm: users describe characteristics of their search target, instead of relying entirely on content keywords.
