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16th May 2008 - Link Blog

Firebug Command Line API. Another thing I didn’t know about Firebug: you can set a breakpoint at the start of a function with “debug(fn)” and log all calls to it with “monitor(fn)”.

Posted 16th May 2008 at 12:14 pm

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