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Firebug 1.0 for Firefox

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:05 am
by Buddha443556
I got an update to Firebug some time this week and just now got around to using it. It's awesome! That new net monitor feature is great and word wrap on the response data was definitely needed but the whole extension looks to have been reworked. Joe Hewittt out did himself with this Version 1.0 release.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:12 am
by superdezign
That's interesting... Yet another advanced (and free) product from Mozilla that I was unaware of.
Edit: Okay, further inspection makes me feel that this isn't a Mozilla product.. Am I correct..?

Is it as good as Dreamweaver? (Not counting the FTP aspect)

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:18 am
by superdezign
Whoa! What is this?? I feel I was misinformed... I've gotten it and it's live for.. Testing the pages?

This is impressive... Ignore my questions, I'm going to read the documentation.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:38 am
by jyhm
Yet another reason to hate IE. All this goodness out there and IE is still listed on the w3 browser statistics page as eighty percent de facto!

Is there an IE hate group I can join?

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:23 am
by matthijs
I understand your feelings. But maybe approach it more positive: make a FF love group.

Firebug is an excellent piece of software. I have only scratched the surface of what it can do and I already couldn't live without it anymore. Let's all visit http://www.getfirebug.com/contribute.html and show our appreciation. Even if you only donate like $10 or $20, if a lot of people do that the developers are helped a lot and will be able to keep developing the extension.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:47 am
by jyhm
matthijs wrote:I understand your feelings. But maybe approach it more positive: make a FF love group.
:D
matthijs wrote: Firebug is an excellent piece of software. I have only scratched the surface of what it can do and I already couldn't live without it anymore. Let's all visit http://www.getfirebug.com/contribute.html and show our appreciation. Even if you only donate like $10 or $20, if a lot of people do that the developers are helped a lot and will be able to keep developing the extension.
I don't donate that much for gadgets and utilities. Only $1 to $5 at a time. I donated $5 to this guy that developed an all in one Apache/PHP/MySQL installer for OSX called, WebServerXKit, because I considered it extreamly useful. I agree that you should definately support anyone offering free software, but If I develop software for free, I think I would ask for a lower amount in order to attract a higher volume. Say $1 or more at users discretion. It's easy to donate a buck through paypal.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:05 am
by Ree
This is great stuff. Believe it or not, I was thinking yesterday about having a tool which could visually display previews of colors defined in stylesheets. And this extension does exactly that and a ton more. Very useful.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:29 am
by matthijs
jyhm wrote:I don't donate that much for gadgets and utilities. Only $1 to $5 at a time. I donated $5 to this guy that developed an all in one Apache/PHP/MySQL installer for OSX called, WebServerXKit, because I considered it extreamly useful. I agree that you should definately support anyone offering free software, but If I develop software for free, I think I would ask for a lower amount in order to attract a higher volume. Say $1 or more at users discretion. It's easy to donate a buck through paypal.
That's the nice thing, you can donate as much as you want. If the value for you is $1, donate $1. If I look at how useful the software is for me, I compare it to Textmate or Transmit, two applications I bought for something like $30. And of course there's a big difference if you do development professionally or just as a hobby.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:54 am
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, I am going to have to play around with this one. I have heard of it, but never installed it. Until now. We'll see how it goes.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:06 pm
by nickvd
I truly don't know how I could possibly remain sane during my ajax debugging activities if it wasn't for firebug. It saves so much time and effort, not to mention elimination any and all alert()'s.

Its profiler is also very very slick (read the docs for further info).

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:56 pm
by matthijs
Here's a nice presentation of Joe Hewitt on 25 jan showing some of the more advanced features of Firebug.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:59 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I was only able to get through 8 minutes, but I will pick up where I left off later. It looks nice, but I can seem to follow with the windows he is using.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:14 pm
by Luke
funny, I was just going to start a topic about this the other day, but thought... eh, they'll all just say "Yea duh dude everybody uses firebug... where the hell have you been??"

It is a pretty awesome piece of software.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:06 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I want to learn how to use it well. Right now it appears to be a glorified generated code inspector, and I know that it is more than that. I am just not sure how.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:21 pm
by superdezign
Firefox on it's own was pretty useful at showing me HTML errors (well, typos).

This firebug thing though. Wow. I used to have to debug straight to the browser. I've got to checkout that video too. I have a feeling this thing does a hell of a lot more than I'm aware of.