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Firefox is one of the famous browsers in web development industry mainly because of its wide array of web development tools such as Firebug. Before Chrome, Firefox has gained most of the attention and considered as the best alternative against its rival - Internet Explorer because it renders DOM and layout quite consistently despite of different releases. Personally, I'm toggling between Firefox and Chrome because I way too used to Firebug's interface. As a result, I have been using Firefox for web development and Chrome as a secondary browser, mainly for Google's web app (gmail, igoogle, analytics) and webkit rendering (CSS 3D, WebGL). In case you missed it, I did a comprehensive Google Chrome Web Development Extensions Round up last week.

Chrome browser is one of the best browsers available online. As a web developer, I used to be a big fan of firefox because of the vast number of extension available for web development. Actually, the main reason I stick with firefox is due to the famous extension - Firebug. However, I found myself using chrome more often nowadays when I'm not developing website because of its speedy rendering speed, less bulky (my firefox has way too many web dev extensions installed) and chrome supports latest CSS3 3D transform and just good to view cutting edge website.

Disclaimer: The intention of this article is not to encourage to apply this hack to your web projects but to understand what have been using by other web designers/developers. The best way to solve Internet Explorer's CSS layout issue is - create different style sheets for different versions of Internet explorers.

When deciding on which web browser to use, one thing that distinguishes Firefox for many web developers is the wealth of plug-ins available. The vast majority are free to download and allow you to personalise your browser exactly how you like. For web designers and developers, this is particularly useful, as often the more menial tasks are made easier and completed quicker by using plug-ins, allowing you to work more efficiently and effectively.

Great News! I have been waiting for this moment for a while so I think I would make a post just for the sake of it. I know Google announced this on late January, they said they will stop supporting some of the products on March onward. Google Docs and Google Sites will be the first and youtube on 13 of March!

It's essential to ensure a finished website it looks identical across different brands of browsers. However, the problem we have is- we don't have all the browsers we need to test the website. For example, we can't have IE6, 7 and 8 altogether. I know about MultiIE, I used it and I can tell it's not accurate in some cases and quite buggy. And also, if you're using mac, you can't have windows based IE as well.

Everyone has a story to tell when dealing with Internet Explorer. As a developer I have faced numerous bizzare problems with IE and sometimes you just want to bang your head against the wall! However, as time goes by, we slowly learn from mistakes (well, sometimes it's not our fault, it's IE!!!) and start to adapt and understand IE's weird behaviors. We have to because there is still a considerable number of IE6 users. The best practise is to continuously test your website from the start across different browsers. It's easier to fix the layout problems from the start rather than testing and fixing it in the end after thousands of lines of html and css code.