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- EpaL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Firebug is hands down THE BEST webdev extension for Firefox, if not the best webdev tool period. I was totally blown away with the difference between 0.x and 1.0.x releases - it's almost like a complete re-write from the ground up with TONS more feature.
If you write web apps and haven't tried it yet, you're missing out in a big way. - m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+96 pages? That's lame.
That could all easily fit on just a single page. What adwhores. - mklopez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Source:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-debugging-with-firebug - corevette, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6and for those who don't have this extraordinary add-on: http://www.getfirebug.com/
Web Developer's Toolbar + Firebug = - Qazzian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's so beautiful, it's brought tears to my eyes.
How did I cope with 0.4 for so long?
Will I ever have to Venkman again? - firebee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is Firebug, the Web Developer Toolbar and a host of small developer centric extensions that are enabling firefox to compete against IE. After a year with FF my experience is that I need to use considerable more effort to develop websites with IE.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Last I checked Firebug has a wicked memory leak.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Spot on, I use both those extensions and I can't get by without them, even when I'm not doing any programming. I use it for regular browsing to bypass bugs in websites or save images that have been displayed with CSS, etc.
I was so disappointed that my standards-compliant CSS :hover color-change (changes the box from grey to yellow on mouseover) didn't work in IE. I had to add a whole bunch of JS to compensate. - scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone should give the Firebug developers a medal for their efforts - I really don't know if they realize how many web developers would like to thank them for all the hours they can now save debugging, instead of writing their own debug code etc.
The DOM Inspector, profiling, XHR trace, "net" (IBM PageDetailer, basically) tab, and ability to view/modify applied CSS style on-the-fly are the features that do it for me.
Make sure you read (or at least skim) the whole article, Joe goes through some features you might not already know about. - deinspanjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you run with nightly builds, why don't you use the nightly build tools extension? It allows you to quickly and easily force any extension to be compatible without hand editing.
- trib4lmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because they are not confirmed as compatible. http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly
- mookee2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not just the JS and Ajax support, Firebug also has a mean inspector for identifying problem HTML/CSS - showing source, style, layout events and, of course, Dom info. Just open it up when viewing Digg and you'll seems reams of data just floating the pointer over this comment box.
Coupled with the Web Developer and HTTP Header add-ons, these tools make Firefox the absolute best browser for web developers. - d3ik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2More than likely you were using the older 0.4 version. The article (and what I use personally) is over the 1.0 beta version which has all the amazing features. I've used it every day for the last month or so and it is awesome.
- dolbex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Firebug is ESSENTIAL for any complex JavaScript application development. Just an AWESOME piece of software. Dugg.
- beartamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firebug is one of the tools which are worthy of such adjectives as AWESOME, ESSENTIAL or INCREDIBLE...
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice piece of software.
However, I am starting to get irritated with Mozilla's versioning system on extensions, and how I can -never- install an extension into a nightly build without hacking its metafile. - Thrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mouse over shows source
Watch tweaks appear on the fly
Weep small tear of joy - zaggy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I happen to be the lead developer of a commercial ajax suite for ASP.NET. Since I started using firebug I can't imagine not using it. It is plain awesome. One of my colleagues even donated to the author. Firebug is a very very powerful tool.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"web development is fun again!"
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It was fun before? - deinspanjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I recently blew away my Firefox profile by accident and when reinstalling extensions, I found the Firebug 1.0 beta. I had been using the .4 release available on the Mozilla site for quite a while and found it adequate, but the beta totally blew me away. They crammed so many new and great features into it it while at the same time making it easier to use, it just makes me happy. :)
- shogusumi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And here I thought 0.4 was cool... but no, Firebug 1.0b wins the Internets. I may have peed a little.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article writer is the author of firebug.
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http://astore.amazon.com/chefs.choice.knife-20 - shay1208, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I completely agree that firebug is great, but it is not a new thing like the article writer seems to think.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Well if you prefer it then go stay there. Just because you read 2 different sites every day doesn't mean everyone else does. Some of us have jobs and lives to worry about.
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1FireBug is one of those things you get used to so quickly that you feel downright crippled if you come across a Fx install without it -- to say nothing about other browsers. It's right up there with mouse gestures in what I require from a browser these days.
...then again, I'm the kind of person who refuse to believe that a computer can boot before you have installed Photoshop, so my relationship to the tools I use might not be the most unbiased source on how good or how useful things are... - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Firebug it :)
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I was just doing this at work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Does this fix windows live mail?
- BigBeaker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1"Then a couple of years ago, AJAX came along and every web development tool on the market became obsolete overnight."
Then Flex 2, Flash 9 and Actionscript 3 came out making AJAX and Firebug obsolete. - BigBeaker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Seriously man, jus use Aptana and IE 7 if you need to do AJAX, then you can use the best browser instead of this firefox crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I read this on Slashdot two weeks ago.
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