Comments on: Firebug to get a boost

By: ds1

ds1 — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:38:20 +0000

Here is a good reference on Firebug tutorial :
http://www.w3resource.com/web-development-tools/firebug-tutorials.php

By: OpenAjax

OpenAjax — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:16:13 +0000

John Resig knows more about JavaScript than you idiots know about your right hand. Not only that – he is a kewl dude, willing to take to take the time to talk with anyone

By: indiehead

indiehead — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:21:40 +0000

glad to hear it, FireBug is the best browser addon period.

By: Iumentum

Iumentum — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:25:41 +0000

Great to hear Resig taking part of firebug as well, just great.
Cant help myself not to say anything but Laurent he might not be your cup of tea but the guy is brilliant(Guru) when its comes to JS.

By: faralla

faralla — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:09:53 +0000

There are two things I’d really like to see in Firebug:
1) debugging integration with IDEs, so I can set a breakpoint in Eclipse and firebug stops at that point. I really hate to find the code line I need in firebug.
2) I don’t know if that is necessarily is a feature request for Firebug or Firefox, but sometimes I need the option to open a second firefox tab without reusing the cookies from the first one. Most times two work in the same application using different sessions.
If there already is a plugin for Firefox or Firebug please share it with me.

By: RobGonda

RobGonda — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:57:57 +0000

Absolutely awesome! Thatâ€™s a great team! :)

By: GregHouston

GregHouston — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:34:15 +0000

@tryptych, as others have already mentioned, you can write extensions for Firebug. Firecookie is a good example:
http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/

By: stevesnz

stevesnz — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:09:21 +0000

stability has to be the first thing they tackle

right now i have firebug disabled for all webpages and just use it on a case by case basis, else it just randomly crashes while browsing

maybe im not feeling creative right now, but i feel that it’s already a very feature rich, incredibly useful plugin, and really just needs lots of clean up, optimisation etc rather then more features.

By: FrankThuerigen

FrankThuerigen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:33:37 +0000

@Laurent V.: make yourself a name with coding, not trolling. With comments like that you disqualify yourself…

By: FrankThuerigen

FrankThuerigen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:29:25 +0000

@fzammetti:
- it really is a technical issue, since some of FF features simply donÂ´t exist in IE, e.g. FF does have a watch() method on objects, which no other browser has. As you can imagine this is a major functionality fro a debugger, although I donÂ´t think it is actually part of the FB implementation. It surely will be in soon, though, see
http://getfirebug.com/workingGroup/2007/FirebugFutures2007.html#(11)
“break on mutation event” and “Update w/o reload” (both related functionalities).

I do think that a working debug environment in one browser is good enough for me, I use that for development and care about “lesser developed” browsers later.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:25:41 +0000

>>Hell, if I was them, Iâ€™d do it just to stick it to the IE team!
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Don’t you think the IE team endures enough grief as it is?

By: fzammetti

fzammetti — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:31:16 +0000

Here’s the single suggestion I’d like to see taken (aside from stability, which is a given requirement IMO)…

Give me a version for IE!

I have to believe it’s possible… there’s certainly a number of tools for IE that do a least *most* of what Firebug does, so I don’t think it’s a technical issue… How bizarre would it be to have Mozilla making web development on IE tolerable (err, maybe “just a little more tolerable” is the right way to put it?!?)

Hell, if I was them, I’d do it just to stick it to the IE team!

By: splintor

splintor — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:32:58 +0000

@triptych: Take a look at http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/category/firebug-tutorial/

By: Jaaap

Jaaap — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:50:22 +0000

@triptych: Firebug already has plugin support. You can develop plugins for ti if you want.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:17:42 +0000

>>@Laurent V : what a really poor comment to make.
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I always assume that comments like that come from the intensely poisonous atmosphere of comp.lang.javascript.

By: williamukoh

williamukoh — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:06:59 +0000

@Laurent V : what a really poor comment to make.

By: triptych

triptych — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:58:47 +0000

There is one thing in my mind that would lead to a major revolution for Firebug – have some way to create extensions/plugins for it. I have so many ideas for enhancing it that I know that others would jump on the plugin wagon.

For instance – a plugin that would show you the “diffs” of the css and js you did for a page, so you could re-enter those into your existing css.

A way to choose an element and see all the YUI or JQuery events attached to it.

ETC.

Give us plugin- ability!!

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:54:26 +0000

I know some people had stability problems in FF2 with Firebug. That was always solid for me, but FF3 and Firebug are crashy for me and I get long hangs.

I have a heck of a time finding a small sample case to submit as a bug, though. Maybe Firebug needs a mechanism to call home with info when it crashes.

By: aksival

aksival — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:13:43 +0000

Firebug has become the de facto tool for web development. It blows the IE Developer Toolbar out of the water. Glad to see John and Rob on the team. I’m looking forward to my favorite plugin getting even better. Congrats, guys.

By: Jaaap

Jaaap — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:41:57 +0000

There is only 1 feature i’d really like firebug to have:
When clicking on a function-name, jump to the function declaration (which may be in a different .js file).
Firebug is already the best tool for web degugging (by quite a bit), but that doesn’t mean we should’t make it Perfect.