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Re: Firebug 2.0

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It doesn't run on PCs.

Which is a shame. Apple should bring back Windows Safari.

Would be good to bring it back to Windows, so that we can test our web sites. However last time when I was using it on Windows it was making my hard drive to make strange noises. I think that it was using my hard disk constantly.

Re: Firebug 2.0

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Not sure why Firefox chose to build their own developer tool when firebug was one of the compelling reason to use firefox and started the trend of having an extensive tool for debugging/inspecting webpages.

I may be wrong .. Originally firebug had to be really slow because of the interfaces available for debugging, the internal tool could work without slowing everything to a crawl. With the newer debugging interface it seems like firebug can work and the browser can be fast.

Yeah, you are right. But i meant to say that firefox could have made firebug as its own developer tool and continue to make it better instead of building their own.

Re: Firebug 2.0

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> The thing I miss the most is the inline display of AJAX call responses If I understood correctly, you can have this on Chrome. In Chrome JS Console, do a right click in an empty space, and select "Log XMLHTTPRequests" (or it was something similar).

Shamelessly hijacking your comment to ask a question....is there any way (Chrome/Firebug, whatever) to somehow output to console or a log, all javascript execution (ie: as any function is executed, output the function name and the argument values). I know there is some way to turn on debugging and breakpoints, but having very little expertise in javascript and no knowledge of the code I'm looking at, the ability to j…

Have a look at this Q&A: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5226550/can-i-override-th...
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