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Firebug — A pretty good debugging tool

Firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

The quote about says it all.  Firebug is a pretty good firefox-based javascript debugging tool.  It also does the DOM, HTML, and CSS.  You can actually alter CSS properties and see it show up on the screen.  Similarly, with the DOM, HTML, and javascript.  Wow!

Also, there are lite versions that work for IE, but it's a little more complicated to set up.

There are a few issues:

  • Firebug breaks our posting interface on the learning remix.  You have to disable it for that.
  • Sometimes, you have to disable and then re-enable it to get it to work on a particular page.
These said, the program is still in beta, so some of this will work out.  Further, the problems are not so severe that you really get hung up on them.  I recommend it.

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