Firebug

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Seven Horsemen of Firebug

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  • 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
    [1]

Welcome Surprises

  • Performance analysis
  • Mouse-intelligence

Performance Impact

Personal tools