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CSS made easy with Firebug

IE6 Improper Rendering
IE6 Improper Rendering

Improper IE7 Rendering
Improper IE7 Rendering

Much like some of the population I get a template of theme from someplace and then spend the next few days, weeks, months, or years hacking away at it. The thing with me is that I only use Firefox and I never take a look at how poorly Internet Explorer or Safari render my page. Just over the weekend I hit the wrong button on Firefox to “Open as IEtab” and I got to see how amazingly hideous my site looked through the eyes of a Internet Explorer 7 using crowd. Once I seen how badly it was rendered I then switched to a machine that had IE6 on it to see how that was rendered.

Well to my surprise (not really) I noticed that IE6 rendered things even worse than in IE7. The only difference in the way that it appeared is that IE6 apparently did not know how to handle .PNG files in my header so it then displays them with a whitish background that does not even resemble the way that this site is supposed to look like.


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ig33k approved Top 10 Firefox Extensions

So we all like Firefox right? (if you said no, why are you reading this)

Well if you are one of the people still using Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, Konquerer, or any other browser go ahead and give Firefox a shot. It wont hurt, much.
Firefox 2But Firefox is sooooo bland all fresh and new out of the box, why don’t we go ahead and show you what Firefox can really do with some great extensions. The list below is just a listing of the ones that I use on my own computer that I have found to be the best and most useful ones out there.

Please feel free to add any other extensions that you like to the bottom as a comment.

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