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I have just come off an 80+ hour week of hacking JavaScript and were it not for Mozilla, my brain would be fried. In general, I'm not the biggest Mozilla fan in the world. I regularly use IE, my email is all in Outlook, and I still haven't warmed to XUL. But in terms of features to help you develop JavaScript, Mozilla is without competition.

I had this big article planned on outlining the numerous parts of Mozilla relevant to JavaScript, but I find that Henrik Gemal has already done a much better job than I could ever do over at DevEdge. I strongly urge you to read it if you're doing any sort of web development and not already using Mozilla. In a nutshell, the things that I didn't know about before the previous week of hacking include:

• The Cookie Manager, and even better, the Cookie Bar, complete cookie management from the sidebar.
• The View Selected Source menu option. Just select some text in a web page, right-click, and whammo.
• The Live HTTP Headers extension. It does what it says. You can find it here.
• The DevEdge sidebar, with lots of easy access to relevant reference material.
• And Unix-style text search when typing slash-searchtext. I know this doesn't really have anything to do with JavaScript development. But it still rocks.

Even so, I will be eternally grateful if I don't have to touch anything more than an onClick handler or a document.location.href redirect again. JavaScript is the work of Satan. Wtf is with the object model?! Object.prototype? Ewww.