Benefits of Developer Tools

What are Developer Tools:

Developer tools are built-in tools provided by the browser that help users and developers analyze the resources used, content, and styles, understand the behavior of web applications, inspect the web page, identify the network calls, memory usage, stack flow, and more. This article will look at the developer tools provided by Mozilla Firefox in the following manner....

Benefits of Developer Tools:

Memory Usage: Firefox Developer Tools helps developers to analyze and optimize memory consumption, making developers optimize the memory resources of the application. Network Usage: Developers can inspect network activity, identify the performance bottlenecks, and ensure optimal loading times for web content. Debugging the code: It helps developers debug the code interactively by setting breakpoints and analyzing the memory space, call stack, and errors. Understanding the behavior of the web page: By looking at the usage of memory, and network, and being able to test in accessibility mode, allowing to debug code, taking the snapshots of the site helps developers providing them a more comprehensive understanding of how their application is working. Customization: It also helps users and developers to customize the website by allowing them to modify the CSS of the site through a style editor. They can also import stylesheets and apply them as well....

How to Open Mozilla Firefox Developer Tools:

Step 1: Click the Menu bar on the top right....

Developer Tool Features in Mozilla Firefox:

Inspector:...

Example:

In this example, we try to look at the accessibility feature provided by Firefox. Initially, we have the Google homepage, When we set stimulate to None, it displays the same as normal. But when we stimulate the web page by setting the stimulate to “Protanopia” (person with a red color disability), the red color in Google Logo fades away. Similarly, if we select Tritanopia, the blue color disappears in the Logo. This way accessibility feature helps developers to deliver the websites to people with visual impairments....

Conclusion:

Mozilla Developer Tools provide certain highly useful features that users or developers can use to debug the code and understand the various components of the application like memory, network, etc. better and helps us to optimize and solve the issues in the web application....