Comments on: Firebug tricks, Dojo style

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:31 +0000

I use the bookmarklet trick, too. This is a cool trick.

By: sos

sos — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:32:52 +0000

Jonat,

The reason a bookmarklet is not enough is that you often want to debug code that runs on page startup. With a bookmarklet you can only enable debugging after the page has finished loaded.

Toms approach turns on debugging before any code runs, so you get the debug output from both pre and post page loads.

Shane

By: AnM8tR

AnM8tR — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:42:37 +0000

This is a really good idea, and helps when your project reaches production and is on the client server. When they approach you with the inevitable bug, you can go to their site, and add ‘debug’ to the url to help with the inspection.

By: jonat

jonat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:56 +0000

Why not use a bookmarklet, it’s easy, and it’s work:
Just Bookmark this in firefox

javascript:var%20firebug=document.createElement(‘script’);firebug.setAttribute(‘src’,’http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js‘);document.body.appendChild(firebug);(function(){if(window.pi&&window.firebug){firebug.init();}else{setTimeout(arguments.callee);}})();void(firebug);

And just hit this bookmark if you need FireBug Lite