Very annoyingly, in the FF 24 beta, Firebug basically crashes the browser every time you open it (or switch to another tab and then back). Not sure if it's FF's problem or Firebug's, but it's really annoying.
Firebug 1.12 – New Features
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Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, firebug still has quite a lot of polish compared to the others. Perhaps it has to do with the contributors being expert UI developers, and firebug developers second. Whereas the other tools are mostly developed by employees who do full time dev tool development, but not so much work using the tools. But I know others mostly prefer chrome tools. The same people often get stuck in firebug or in IE dev tools. Anyw…
I fail to see how Firebug has a better UI then WebKit Developer Tools? As far as I am concerned they are the same in that regard. And since both of those tools are not built by "developers", but by "frontend engineers" it doesn't really matter. I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out how to attach Firebug to the browser window. Only to find out that the upward pointing arrow in a gray circle means attach to brow…
Think what s/he's saying is that it helps that they use their own tools for UI dev versus those who hammer on the browser and made comparable tools, not that Firebug has a better UI.
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#13What a great release, it's hard to tell with new feature I liked more :)
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#14Very annoyingly, in the FF 24 beta, Firebug basically crashes the browser every time you open it (or switch to another tab and then back). Not sure if it's FF's problem or Firebug's, but it's really annoying.
Firefox's, certainly. It would be good if you reported it on Bugzilla.
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#15Very annoyingly, in the FF 24 beta, Firebug basically crashes the browser every time you open it (or switch to another tab and then back). Not sure if it's FF's problem or Firebug's, but it's really annoying.
Firefox's, certainly. It would be good if you reported it on Bugzilla.
Thanks, I had meant to ping someone about this, but keep forgetting. Filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908174
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#16I worked in Firebug for sometime but since Chrome came up with WebKit tools I never looked back,...
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, firebug still has quite a lot of polish compared to the others. Perhaps it has to do with the contributors being expert UI developers, and firebug developers second. Whereas the other tools are mostly developed by employees who do full time dev tool development, but not so much work using the tools. But I know others mostly prefer chrome tools. The same people often get stuck in firebug or in IE dev tools. Anyw…
I fail to see how Firebug has a better UI then WebKit Developer Tools? As far as I am concerned they are the same in that regard. And since both of those tools are not built by "developers", but by "frontend engineers" it doesn't really matter. I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out how to attach Firebug to the browser window. Only to find out that the upward pointing arrow in a gray circle means attach to brow…
I guess it comes down to personal preference but I've always thought Firebug beats Elements and Resources in Chrome. It is much faster to filter with tabs than digging through a tree IMO.
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#18Great, that seems to have fixed several bugs I've been encountering as well (if I switched tabs the firebug UI would disappear).
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#19Is there work going on to build Firebug on top of the built-in Firefox debugging tools? The two don't seem to work well together at the moment.
Not really, no. There was some talk about adding a Firebug panel to the built-in tools, but nothing has really come from it, and any deeper UI integration is probably out of the question for being too much work. But suggestions about how to make it better are still welcome, of course. The main thing we have gotten out of the new devtools are new cool APIs, e.g. for debugging, paint flashing, CSS auto-completion, prof…
Aaah, so the idea is that you'll be two different UIs built on the same APIs?
That makes sense.
Re: Firebug 1.12 – New Features
#20"Copy as cURL" is great! I'm curious to see if it even builds POST requests properly.. Edit: it does! It includes all the headers, the POST data, etc...
Well Chrome had this feature for a long time. Personally I don't find it much useful. But to me the killer feature of firebug is that when you open an XHR entry in new tab it opens the tab with all POST variables. Super handy when debugging REST api.
I don't know that this is in regular Chrome (at least I can't find it). Google-fu says that Chromium has it though..