Firefox as the default browser when developing web applications

Recently, the respected akakunin published the topic " Firefox becomes the default browser ", in which he quoted a message that appears when the recently released Spring Source Cloud Foundry service logs on : "The browser found. But there are many features and layout elements. We recommend that you use FireFox 3.0+ for Cloud Foundry. ”From this fact, he and the people in the comments began to think about the trend.

In fact, the explanation of this trend is quite simple, and it consists of two product names: FireBug and Selenium.

FireBug is something that somehow reconciles me with the world of Ajax. Without it, I just can’t imagine the development of Ajax applications. Yes, there is a DragonFly in the new Opera, but the PMSM is harder to work with.
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Selenium - if you need to explain to someone from the web application developers what it is, I sincerely regret these people :) In principle, a properly organized development process combined with the use of Selenium allows you to do without live testers. And if your application is written in the Spring framework, then you can use umangite - the library that makes the configuration of Selenium for your application quite trivial. On Linux, Selenium also works only with Firefox (at least until recently). And on Windows, as far as I know, Firefox is best friends with Selenium.

In general, it turns out that Firefox is the only browser in which you can be sure that it will display your application as intended.