Is there a Firefox 3 addon similar to View Source Chart?

Question

Before I upgraded to Firefox 3 I used to constantly use the View Source Chart Firefox Addon which shows the source HTML in a very organized, graphical form. Unfortunately, this addon is only for Firefox 2 and the beta version for Firefox 3 now costs $10 on the author's site.

Anyone know of a similar addon that works for Firefox 3?

(of course, I might indeed pay $10 for this, but first want to ask around if there isn't anything better and free, as the version for Firefox 2 had its limitations and I don't really want to pay $10 for something in beta that I can't test out before paying for it.)

Answer 1

You can try to use Nightly Tester Tools It overrides addons compatibility check. Using this tool I managed to bring all of my fav extensions from FF2 to FF3

Answer 2

I don't know your personal circumstances, but $10 really isn't all that much if the plugin is useful

Answer 3

@Glenn Slaven
I have to agree. Something you constantly find useful, yet are not willing to spend $10 on?

Answer 4

You could always try Firefug. It sounds like it does a similar thing, plus more :)

Answer 5

@Bernard: it's a slippery slope. If I had to pay $10 for all the useful extensions and all the programs I use all the time (such as firefox+about 12 extensions, filezilla, bugzilla, python, jedit, trac, mediawiki, putty, etc) we'd be talking thousands of dollars real fast. And that chokes development time. Why? because every time I need something at the corp, I'd have to file a purchase request with the boss and that takes weeks to get approved and sometimes isn't (PHB: Do you HAVE to have it? No? Then no.) If it's all free, and I use only free stuff, I can have a fully working development computer ready in 5 hours. This is primarily why I avoid pay software. Note that I do not use software unless I am legally allowed to. I use 7-zip instead of winzip for that reason.

By the way, I used to use view source chart and found it useful, but decided against it long term.

(For those who think I don't pay for anything, you're almost right. I try to keep it to the absolute minimum. I have a $10/month debian stable virtual server. and my $45/month internet cable connection... Oh, and a subscription for the paper version of Python Magazine. And Vista Home Premium (came with the Compaq laptop).

Yeah, I'm gonna lose some rep points on this one.

By the way, another side effect of specifically not installing commercial software on my computers is improved stability. Go figure.

Answer 6

View formatted source is kinda similar. It uses tree controls rather than pretty colour blocks, though.

Answer 7

Is Firebug not sufficient?

Answer 8

Try Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar.

Answer 9

@Christopher:
Of course, it's everyones own prerogative. I think software's no different to any other product in this regard, i.e. you pay for something if you think it's worth paying for. The main difference being that there is a lot of quality software available for free. I couldn't pay for every piece of software I find useful either, but there are a couple I have paid for because I thought the price worth it. That software can be far between though.

Answer 10

i had the same problem... you can use the free version (2.5.0503)...it's compatible with firefox3 and it's work. on the web site it's write that it's not with full functionality but i don't know whitch functionality there aren't.