What's it all about, Alfie?

I was trying to find a syntax error I had in my JavaScript today, and realized, once again, that the tools built in to the browsers on Windows/Linux (Firefox and IE) are pretty sad. Sure, Google Chrome has a little more, and Safari 4 beta as well, but I was on linux and that meant Firefox, and it wasn't really helpful.

Then I asked a co-worker, and he said he'd used a Firefox plugin Web Developer to debug JavaScript. So I downloaded it and tried it out. What a difference! This is what I was looking for all along. Something that points out the line with the error and at least some sense of the problem.

WIth this, I was able to diagnose my problem in no time. Thank goodness.

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