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January 12, 2007
Firebug 1.0
It's not every day that I get as excited as I just did about a browser utility upgrade. However, Firebug 1.0 is truly amazing. If you build websites, especially ones with AJAX, Javascript, advanced CSS, etc. then you need to upgrade to Firebug 1.0. NOW.
I've been using Firebug for a long time now, but the latest release is chock full of new features. You can read about the tool in a recent article in Dr. Dobb's.
If you try to upgrade from the Extensions menu, it won't work, you have to go to the source:
http://www.getfirebug.com/.
The most obvious pre-existing feature of Firebug, is the ability to view AJAX requests and subsequent responses. For that alone, the tool is useful. Now they've included javascript and page profiling, improved javascript debugger, inline CSS editing and inheritance browsing, and much more. It's really really cool.
Posted by mark at January 12, 2007 1:43 PM Subscribe (FeedBurner)
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If you like Firebug, check out LiveHTTPHeaders if you aren't using that already. It's been invaluable for determining server response errors and debugging scripts/pages for me.
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
Posted by: @lvin at January 15, 2007 2:13 PM