December 7, 2006
Firebug – A New Tool for Web Development
Written by: Juanchito
One of my code monkey friends directed me to a tool called Firebug recently. It’s still in Beta, but who really knows what beta means anymore. Google seems to have changed everything where you never know what you’re getting with Beta. It could be a full production product or it could be crap. I digress. Firebug seems like a pretty cool web development environment to work in and it’s all built into Firefox.
I love the way they’ve designed the website so you can browse through screen shots of the site seamlessly and at the top of the site. Honestly that’s proof that’s faith in your product’s ability to sell itself. Try going to the Net tab and you’ll see how cool Firebug is. It calculates how long it takes for your scripts to load on your site. Here’s how the site describes this feature:
Monitor network activity
Your pages are taking a long time to load, but why? Did you go crazy and write too much JavaScript? Did you forget to compress your images? Are your ad partner’s servers taking a siesta? Firebug breaks it all down for you file-by-file.
That’s a pretty neat feature. Now, I’m just scared to find out the results.
Did you install this? It’s like the WebDev addon I use now, but with like 2348928490283 more features. I may try this out after I hear your review.