Firebug 1.0 Beta
The Firebug 1.0 (beta) Firefox extension transports an already awesome web development tool into the realm of the absolutely indispensable. Check out the mind-boggling added functionality:
- HTML Editing: Edit HTML on the fly, see the changes highlighted, search HTML, and much more.
- CSS Development: Wow! Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension was great at composing CSS on the fly, but Firebug kicks butt! Preview colors by mousing over the CSS color values, use the up and down keys to increment numeric values, do the same with attribute values and witness Firebug’s built in CSS dictionary run through the possible choices. There are several more features in the CSS tool that would have been enough to make Firebug a must-have tool for developers.
- CSS Layout Visualizing: The box model can be a dastardly concept to comprehend. The Firebug layout visualizer saves the day.
- Net Activity Monitoring: Want to see some neat bar charts? Take Firebug to a big Ajax site and check out the network requests. Heck! Take it to your own site and see what parts of your pages are taking the longest to load. It graphs every get request—including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and images.
- JavaScript Debugging: Firebug was already good at this as well, now it’s great. Pause execution, step, and break your JavaScript to your heart’s content.
We could say more, but we’d be delaying you from getting on with the Firebug experience. Go get it and let us know what you think.
Oh, and one more thing, did we mention it’s now available for IE, Opera, and Safari? Consider it done.
