I'm sure this has been a feature for ages, but I only noticed this today. If you highlight a section of a page in Firebird (or Firefox, which I am yet to bother to install), the right-click context menu will give you the option to "View Selected Source". This pops up the source-view window with the relevant section highlighted.
Great for jumping to the exact location of your formatting problem.
I've been using that feature in Mozilla since before 1.0. So you're right! It has been around forever :)
Weird. I've been using Mozilla since the single-digit milestones, and that's honestly the first time I've ever noticed the feature.
I must be particularly unobservant. I guess ex-girlfriends _can_ occasionally be right about something.
Yes, that's a cool feature, but I noticed that the source code that is displayed is a parsed version of the html - attribute ordering, whitespace, and case are changed. I noticed this while writing some web scraping regular expressions that just didn't work as expected.
you might want to checkout
http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
"adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools"
I didn't notice that one either, thanks for pointing it out :)
Ya, that is cool. I guess it is one of those things that I saw and filed away subliminally. Thanks for peeling the onion as it is! Also like the fishbowl theme. I use that on my site as well.