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Firebug Extensions

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Chromebug (alpha)

ChromeBug is Firebug for Firefox extensions.

  • Requires Firebug 1.2.
  • Works with Chromelist.
  • Works on Firefox 3.0 and later
  • To run chromebug: firefox.exe -chrome chrome://chromebug/content/chromebug.xul -firefox
  • Currently unstable, testing install and bugs in FF3, and comments welcome.

Chromebug

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Firebug Code Coverage

Firebug code coverage adds entry function code coverage for JavaScript code. Adds a button next to the Profiler in Firebug.

CodeCoverage

Download from Mozilla Add-ons site (experimental)

Firebug Net Panel History Overlay

This extension Adds history functionality to firebug net panel.

  • Requires Firebug 1.2.0b4

Net Panel History

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Fireclipse

Fireclipse is an open source project to experiment with development tools for javascript and related technologies. It enables nice coupling of Firefox and Eclipse for debugging purposes, working on top of Firebug.

Fireclipse

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LiveCoder

LiveCoder lets you poke at the browser's DOM, just like Firebug. But LiveCoder also lets you examine Firebug itself. In addition to examining the DOM, you can alter it including changing functions. This is a great way to debug your code and test fixes more quickly.

LiveCoder

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Firecookie

Firecookie is a an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser.

Firecookie

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FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to print to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP function call. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page. Thus FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development.

FirePHP

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Firequark

Firequark is an extension to Firebug to aid the process of HTML Screen Scraping. Firequark automatically extracts css selector for a single or multiple html node(s) from a web page using Firebug (a web development plugin for Firefox). The css selector generated can be given as an input to html screen scrapers like Scrapi to extract information. Firequark is built to unleash the power of css selector for use of html screen scraping.

Firequark

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Jiffy

The Jiffy Firefox Extension is written by Bill Scott of Netflix. It adds an additional panel to Firebug that provides a visual view of the Javascript time measurements captured by Jiffy-Web.

Jiffy

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Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect is a firebug extension that allows web developers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed html.

Pixel Perfect

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Rainbow For Firebug

RainbowForFirebug brings Javascript syntax highlighting to Firebug.

RainbowForFirebug

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YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on Yahoo's rules for high performance web sites. YSlow gives you:

  • Performance report card
  • HTTP/HTML summary
  • List of components in the page
  • Tools including JSLint

YSlow

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