Firebug for Google Chrome and IE6 / IE7 / IE8 (And Beyond!)

June 27th, 2009 in Client Side Programming by Adam Parker

The crown jewel of web development (at least for me) has been Firebug. Unfortunately it’s only for Mozilla Firefox… or so I thought. Seems like the Firebug team has something they called “Firebug Lite”, that allows you to get and use many of the features in Firebug on browsers that don’t really support extensions. Yes, that includes Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 6 and above.

Sorry Mosaic users, you’re out of luck on this one ; – )

So how do you get this magical debugging tool for your browser of choice? Simple, all you have to do is add one line of Javascript code:

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js"></script>

There are some extra customizations you can do for this, but you can check that out at the official Firebug Lite website.

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