Comments on: Ajax Debugging with Firebug

By: adit

adit — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:04:11 +0000

firebug is very useful, indeed, but since Firefox 2.0.0.3 on my Mac OS X 10.4.10 often hangs or crash, i am frustating about it, it is possible firefox will be released as Firefox Extension ?, so i can use it without firefox browser (eg. camino)

By: Spoon

Spoon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:27:58 +0000

I saw an article where someone made enhancements to Firebug to allow PHP debugging. Firebug is open source, so I think if one knows XUL/XPCOM, they could add the save functionality if they wanted.

Personally, I have no clue where to begin to try an figure out how to add this; is it C, XPCOM, both? Why was this not already added? Is it a security issue to protect potential copyright material? I just don’t know.

But I think Firebug will only get more powerful as time goes one. There is already a CMS that I saw on google, that saves Firebug changes.

There don’t yet seem to be an intuitive way to use Firefox for saving changes, I guess if there was something that is breaking your code, you just need to fix it as usual…Firebug plays the “Fire alarm” which beats alert();

By: magic

magic — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:08:19 +0000

I’m just a humble non tech blogger, who loves firebug and what it can do but can not figure out how to save changes made in firebug sessions. I’m bogging in google blogger which has a window for editing the html template file. What I’ve been doing is using firebug to identify what I need to do, then jumping into the blogger window to implement the changes. this is obviously very unproductive (but still better than not having firebug at all.) Forgive my ignorance and lack of techo wisdom, I’m just a humble etc etc. Can someone please help me.
cheers
Steve

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:59:45 +0000

I’ve written a handy Greasemonkey script to switch on debugging in Dojo with Firebug on any page using Dojo, without having to change the source code. Have a look here – http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/greasemonkey-script-to-turn-on-firebug-debugging-for-dojo/

By: Masklinn

Masklinn — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:17:40 +0000

Kaitnieks said
> I still prefer Microsoft Script Editor. Seriously.

Whoa…

May I know how that’s possible?

I mean MSE doesn’t even support JS debugging in the top level frame, is unclear to use (about as confusing as the ol’ Venkman at least, jumping up and down the stack is much more natural in Firebug for example), doesn’t include profiling or console output support, completely freeses MSIE when open, doesn’t handle conditional breakpoints, …

Seriously, i’d like to know how you can prefer MSE.

By: sikifon

sikifon — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:32:29 +0000

Very great tool!

By: Kaitnieks

Kaitnieks — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:07:34 +0000

I still prefer Microsoft Script Editor. Seriously.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:35:30 +0000

Firebug is awesome. It saves me time from hunting down obscure errors and banging my head against the desk. The real-time updating lets me follow all the things firing on the screen and you can see how fast everything loads (great for optimizing)

By: CrackWilding

CrackWilding — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:49:37 +0000

It’s hard for me to believe that I used to debug JS with nothing but the console.

I’d also recommend the Web Developer’s Toolbar, if you don’t already have it. It’s a nice complement to Firebug.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:31:29 +0000

I’m a huge fan of FireBug, everybody who work with website be it Programmer, Designer or QA should have this tool installed.

By: asaris

asaris — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:07:58 +0000

Must have tool for all web developers.
It speeds up developing of web pages very much.

By: cedric

cedric — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:16:21 +0000

That was a great article. There are some good time saving tips that you wouldn’t know about just by playing with Firebug.