Subharanjan

Where to find the JSView Firefox Addon – Discontinued from Addons Repo.

Update: Date: 6th Sept. 2014

From Firefox 32(Version 32) onwards, this add-on JSView has stopped working and is no more compatible and won’t be in future versions of Firefox as well. However there is an alternative add-on which can be used for getting the list of JS and CSS file being loaded with web pages. Its the “Phoenix” add-on. 🙂

Phoenix will tell you how many CSS and JS files are loaded into a page, how big these are, it will let you edit, pack and de-obfuscate them too.

Download the “Phoenix” add-on, the alternative for “JSView”. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phoenix/

Where can I find the popular JSView firefox addon which I have been using since a long time. Today I formatted my system and reinstalled firefox. JSView Suddenly I found that the the most useful firefox addon to list/view/copy path/url of JS files and CSS files is discontinued from the official firefox addon repository. On the mozdev.org site, its mentioned that ” JSView appears to have been abandoned by the author. It hasn’t been updated since July 2008 ”
However, we can still use this addon( of-course with personal choice/risk ) by taking it directly from the stored location as it is no more displayed on the addons/extensions list.

To install this addon on your firefox browser, open the link on firefox and follow the procedure.
http://downloads.mozdev.org/xsidebar/mods/jsview-2.0.8-mod.xpi

Sources:

Posted

in

,

by

Subharanjan

Tags:

, , , ,

Comments

31 responses to “Where to find the JSView Firefox Addon – Discontinued from Addons Repo.”

  1. sirnemanjapro Avatar
    sirnemanjapro

    Thanks man!

    Reply
  2. Tyler Durden Avatar
    Tyler Durden

    Legend!

    Reply
  3. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    Thanks!

    Reply
  4. Saulo Padilha Avatar
    Saulo Padilha

    Thanks from Brazil!

    Reply
  5. Haresh Avatar
    Haresh

    Thanks

    Reply
  6. Luko Avatar
    Luko

    thanks : )

    Reply
  7. Michel Avatar
    Michel

    Many thanks for the link!

    Reply
  8. PowerBob Avatar
    PowerBob

    THANKS!!

    Reply
  9. yvonney barry Avatar
    yvonney barry

    Hi All! [regarding: jsview-2.0.8-mod.xpi]

    As of about version 32 (beta) of firefox this SO amazing extension is broken – icon show though nothing showing functionally. anyone confirm? IDEAS? desperate! best wishes to all.

    Reply
  10. SickSight Avatar
    SickSight

    The plugin is no longer usable since version 32. I can confirm that …
    I think however this is an equivalent alternative:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phoenix/

    Reply
    1. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      Hi SickSight, Even though this Addon is not listed on the Firefox addon server, but this old plugin still works on the latest Firefox version which I am using right now. It works fine for me !! However, the addon you have pointed out is good too. 🙂

      Reply
    2. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      Yes, this addon is not working now. I was on FF31 and after upgrading to FF 32, this addon no more works. 🙁

      Reply
  11. Alternative zum Firefox Addon JSView | SickSight´s

    […] war es bis zum Update auf Firefox Version 32 funktionstüchtig und über verschiedene Quellen installierbar. Eben ein sehr hilfreiches Tool, was man gerne […]

    Reply
  12. Roman Avatar
    Roman

    Hm, i can confirm what SickSight said. I can see a tooltip with counters for JS- and CSS-files, but no pull-down list of them, when i click the JSView-Button … bad 🙁
    Okey, so i will use phoenix instead …

    Reply
  13. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    I confirm that it is no longer usable in FF 32

    Reply
  14. Ethno Avatar
    Ethno

    Me too. Fails on Firefox <= 32

    Reply
  15. Artur Barseghyan Avatar
    Artur Barseghyan

    Phoenix plugin works fine, if not used together with Phoenix editor, which simply causes the browser to crash (tried several times, never worked).

    Reply
  16. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Hey there, thanks for the post. I was using JSView a lot, too bad it does not work anymore.
    Phoenix is okay but it misses a key feature: JSView extracted JS and CSS code from within HTML files and displayed it in an extra window. Phoenix however does only show external JS and CSS files plus whole HTML file. Do you know any details about why JSView does not work anymore? Maybe that is fixable or maybe the feature can be implemented into Phoenix?

    Reply
    1. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      I am not sure why this addon was discontinued, but it seems like that the developer of this addon is no more active. 🙁

      Reply
  17. Vishal Avatar
    Vishal

    Thanks bhai for the Phoenix, its awesome.

    Reply
  18. Murray Avatar
    Murray

    Well thank you for making this addon active for as long as you have. I know it was a life saver when I originally found your website last year.

    Reply
    1. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      Welcome 🙂

      Reply
  19. Adrian Avatar
    Adrian

    Thanks for the Phoenix tip. Lifesaver!

    Reply
  20. Dan Avatar
    Dan

    I was missing the functionality that the JSView add-on provided since it stopped working with Firefox 32, so I developed a new one. ‘SpeedView’ has very similar functionality and UI to JSView and it works with the latest version of Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speedview/

    Reply
    1. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      Nice to know about this new add-on. Thanks Dan !!

      Reply
    2. Chris Avatar
      Chris

      Hey there, thank you for the new add-on, I use it a lot already.
      But unfortunately I think it is not working 100% accurate.
      The numbers of found files vary a lot between the JSView, Phoenix JS and SpeedView.
      JSView and Phoenix JS usually find around the same number of files, SpeedView somtimes finds a lot less.

      For example on this site JSView finds 31 JS/18 CSS, Phoenix 33 JS/18 CSS and SpeedView finds 18 JS/13 CSS.

      I am not entirely sure if this is a real bug, maybe the other addons just split the files differently.
      However, It would be great if every bit of code and css could be found and be displayed separately. I often use the addons to reverse engineer sites for bugfixing, so I pretty much depend on a complete overview.

      Reply
  21. b333 Avatar
    b333

    For fans of the original jsview plugin – http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2863589

    You are welcome.

    Reply
    1. fxoxo Avatar
      fxoxo

      Thanks a lot, this version works great !

      Reply
  22. neillh Avatar
    neillh

    Thanks for keeping this post up-to-date, I head here every time I build a new machine!

    Reply
    1. Subharanjan Avatar
      Subharanjan

      Glad it helps !!

      Reply
  23. Lee Avatar
    Lee

    Thanks! I hadn’t been able to use JSView and finally decided to check it out. Phoenix is an excellent replacement. Excellent work!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *