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15 items tagged “firebug”

Opera Dragonfly. Opera’s new Firebug-style developer console. Out in alpha and it shows (slow to load and the interactive console leaves a lot to be desired) but still looks incredibly promising, especially the remote debugging tools for working with Opera on phones and games consoles. 0 6th May 2008, 7:04 pm

Advanced JavaScript Debugging Techniques. There’s more to JavaScript debugging than just Firebug. 0 4th April 2008, 7:51 am

Simple Exception Response for AJAX debugging. Neat solution to the problem of Django error pages showing up as raw HTML in the Firebug Ajax log. 0 19th March 2008, 4:44 pm

Firebug + Dijit tips. News to me: Firebug has a magic $1 variable which corresponds to the currently selected node. Very handy. 1 17th March 2008, 2:08 am

I don’t even use Firefox and Firebug anymore, the revised Web Inspector in Leopard has been incorporated in Coda and that does everything I need and more.

Jon Hicks 0 20th December 2007, 3:09 pm

jQuery Logging (via) Brilliant four line jQuery plugin that lets you insert Firebug console.log() calls directly in to chains. 0 19th October 2007, 12:52 pm

YSlow: Bug (fix) in Firebug’s Net Panel. The latest release of the YSlow page analysis plugin (announced at FOWA) also fixes a misleading bug in Firebug’s Net panel. 0 5th October 2007, 10:26 pm

jQuery in 15 minutes. A quick introduction I put together. Much more interesting in conjunction with Firebug powered demos. 5 7th August 2007, 2:57 pm

YSlow. New extension for Firebug (yes, an extension on top of another extension) from the Yahoo! performance team which provides improved performance measurement tools and optimisation advice. 2 25th July 2007, 4:48 am

The YUI Team Is Hiring an Engineer To Work on Firebug. “... we’re opening a search for a full-time developer to work with Joe on advancing the Firebug roadmap.” 1 7th May 2007, 10:40 pm

Dashcode review. “Dashcode is quite possibly the best non-Firebug Javascript environment I’ve ever used.” High praise indeed. 1 5th March 2007, 9:06 pm

AJAX Debugging with Firebug. Great Firebug tutorial from creator Joe Hewitt himself. I didn’t know you could trigger profiling from your own code using console.profile() / console.profileEnd(). 0 12th January 2007, 11:21 am

Firebug Lite. Add Firebug to your site for non-Firefox browsers. 0 4th December 2006, 2:31 pm

Firebug 1.0 Beta. Unbelievably brilliant software. I use this every day. 0 4th December 2006, 1:28 pm

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