From QED

Contents 1 Seven Horsemen of Firebug 2 Timeline 3 Firebug not just for Firefox 4 Getting Firebug 5 Welcome Surprises 6 Performance Impact

Seven Horsemen of Firebug

• Console (logging)
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• DOM
• Net
• Cookies

Timeline

Firebug versions:

• 1.0 Beta — December 2006
• 1.0 — 24 Jan 2007
• 1.3.3 — 23 Feb 2009

WebKit (Safari/Chrome):

• circa January 2006 — Web Inspector introduced for inspecting DOM

• circa September 2008 — WebKit compatibility with Firebug's command line API

Firebug not just for Firefox

• Firebug Lite

Getting Firebug

Stable	addons.mozilla.org	1.3.3
Latest	http://getfirebug.com/releases
Alpha		1.4
Firebug Lite	http://getfirebug.com/lite.html	1.2.1

Notes: "ChromeBug" is for XUL extensions.

Options for running Firebug Lite:

1. dojo.js
2. <script type='text/javascript'

   src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'>

   </script>

3. Bookmarklet

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Welcome Surprises

• Performance analysis
• Mouse-intelligence

Performance Impact

• "Firebug can make Gmail slow"