Opera recently announced the release of their Dragonfly Web Developer application, that will be built directly into the Opera Browser.
From their website
Opera Dragonfly is Opera’s all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow.
To evaluate it, you will need to download the 9.5 beta 2 version of the Opera browser. Once installed, launch the browser and go to Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools.
It appears that with Dragonfly, Opera is taking aim at Firebug. Although similar, Dragonfly is not yet as robust as Firebug, though it is easy to see that it has potential. This is a very early release, so it will be interesting to see what features Opera decides to add to this tool.
Of course, as a developer, ANY tool that helps us do our job in a faster, more efficient manner is appreciated.
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