Development - Friday, July 25, 2008 17:51 - 0 Comments

Firebug Lite 1.2; Now with improved lite-ness

The best thing to happen to browser testing since… wait. This more than likely is the best thing to ever happen to browser testing. Firebug is now available for browsers other than Firefox. For those of us whose jobs depend on making the web work with IE still, this is amazing.

“Today Firebug Lite 1.2 was released. This new version was built by Azer Koçulu, creator of pi.debugger. Azer joined the Firebug Working Group, morphed the GUI to look Firebug, and added it to the Firebug code base.

Firebug Lite is a subset of Firebug that can be used in IE, Opera, and Safari. The previous version provided console.log functionality. In Firebug Lite 1.2, Azer added the ability to inspect DOM elements, track XHRs, and navigate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can embed it in your pages and enable debugging. I prefer creating a Firebug Lite bookmarklet that I can launch on any web page. Instructions and more information are available on the main Firebug Lite page.” - Steve Souders