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Chris McAvoy likes kites

Wow…Firebug!

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Again, I’m way behind the curve here, so forgive me if you already know this, but Firebug rocks.

I had heard of it in the context of debugging Ajax applications, since I don’t do much Ajax, I never looked into Firebug other than installing it when I had some free time. I’m fiddling around with some heavy-ish javascript now, and Firebug has been a huge help. It’s also great for inspecting HTML (it chops up your page into a nice tree structure that you can fold up), CSS, network calls, headers, cookies set…just about everything you could want for inspecting exactly what a page is doing. It’s a great tool. If you haven’t already, install it. Even if you just sit on it for a while, it’s worth the time it takes to install.

Written by Chris

April 5th, 2007 at 8:13 am

Posted in Javascript

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  • http://www.kentcowgill.org Kent Cowgill

    Yeah, it took me a while to fully appreciate the beauty of FireBug. I only learned of it maybe 6-7 months ago – but any time you’re dealing with anything CSS or JavaScript related, especially if it’s output programatically, it’s invaluable. I’ve also found the Net “tab” to be pretty helpful in diagnosing what parts of my web page are taking too long to load, where my iFrames are laoding from and what the contents of the response are, etc.

    Absolutely cool tool, and I never want a browser without it.

  • Brantley

    In my AJAX apps I have any server-side Python exceptions piped through to my FireBug. I actually see in the FireBug console the traceback et al. Fun fun fun.

  • http://farmdev.com/ Kumar McMillan

    yep, it’s one of those things that if someone took it away from me I would stare blankly at my browser, not knowing what to do.

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