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(gb) Firebug For Firefox Saves You Time
By Mark | May 18, 2007
Advanced programmers and casual bloggers alike can benefit from Firebug, an add-on for Firefox. In short, it helps you tweak your code without actually committing the changes until you’re happy with it.
While you’re viewing any web page (not just your own) you activate Firebug to show its screen. From there you can view the HTML, CSS and scripts of the page you’re looking at. You can change the color scheme, text, placement, padding and more by simply changing the values and seeing the effects immediately. You’re not changing the actual files, just viewing the cached files that you’ve changed.
Feeling mischievous? Well, you could go to a website and change the subject matter to, say, your friend. Hide the Firebug window to display the site as it would normally appear and, assuming that your friend is present, ask your friend how they got in the news.
This is not a hacker’s tool; you’re not actually changing the content, just the cached files you’ve already downloaded. See a sample here. (Don’t worry Bob, you weren’t hacked!)
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May 18th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I used FF a lot ages ago but ever since I discovered Safari I never really use anything else anymore. Really should though because Safari isn’t all that. Guess I’m too lazy to get used to another app again
This tool can also be used to have a lot of fun actually now that I think of it
May 18th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Firebug is a lifesaver for developers, especially when you’re trying to fit a div inside another div with pixel-perfect accuracy or tweaking with multiple color changes. And there’s fun to be had with it, too.