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Geuis
Geuis

Reputation: 42297

Alternative to Firebug for Firefox?

The latest versions of Firebug in Firefox feel like they've been regressing. Performance is abysmal. This is a common complaint amongs everyone on my team, and increasingly among many other web developers online.

Are there any alternative extensions for Firefox that gives similar functionality(DOM inspector, Net tab, console)?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 37968

Answers (7)

NoBugs
NoBugs

Reputation: 9512

Firefox now has built in developer tools similar to Firebug, but not so full-featured:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/technology/

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/12/an-overview-of-firefoxs-coming-developer-tools/

Upvotes: 8

Joao Figueiredo
Joao Figueiredo

Reputation: 3188

Check out Dung Beetle

Also, exclusively for XPath expressions, but pretty fast, XPath Checker

Upvotes: 0

Rose
Rose

Reputation: 2882

For Http/Https traffic inspection HttpFox is very great tool. u'll get an add-on for firefox in the web. However it doesn't have the cool dom inspection feature of firebug.

Upvotes: 0

johnjbarton
johnjbarton

Reputation: 1857

If you were to post your specific problems about Firebug performance to the Firebug newsgroup or bug list, then we'd just fix them. No one has ever complained about performance. We had some problems with memory but these were fixed. jjb

Upvotes: 0

The Matt
The Matt

Reputation: 6620

Fidler Web Debugger is an option, although it's not as integrated.

Other alternatives include:

Upvotes: 6

Alex Barrett
Alex Barrett

Reputation: 16475

I agree with you as far as Firebug's performance goes in recent releases, therefore I have found myself using the excellent WebKit Inspector - in both Chrome and Safari - and Opera Dragonfly a lot more recently.

Upvotes: 0

lod3n
lod3n

Reputation: 2903

The IE8 Debugger is pretty good, for IE. They seemingly took several cues from Firebug.

Upvotes: 2

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