Comments on: Firebug 1.4 Alpha – Worth It

By: AlfonsoML

AlfonsoML — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:02:33 +0000

The title of the post is misleading, as someone might think that the 1.4alpha is good, but the reality as explained in the rest of the post and the comments is that Firebug has been going down, they try to appeal more regular users, but if we could use previous versions with the current Firefox then I guess that nobody would be using 1.3 and even 1.4 acts too weirdly.
This might sound heretic, but sometimes I find the IE Developer tools more useful that the current state of Firebug.

By: Spi

Spi — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Ok. It’s right that with the 1.3 version, I have some strange errors in the console and that I have sometimes to clean it and restart my tests. And I remember one other thing, in script mode, sometimes you only have some few lines that are shown and you have to scroll for a global refresh … when you can scroll (even for big files, the scrollbar is not always show).
I’ve never made the relation between the migration and the apparition of these problems.

You’ve opened my eyes ;)

Thanks

By: Bryan J Swift

Bryan J Swift — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:04:23 +0000

I’m totally with Valerio on this on. As long as FF2 is on the list of browsers I have to support it will be my default development/debugging browser. Firebug 1.2 was too stable to give up while Firebug 1.3 just makes me furious. When 1.4 is released I’ll check out the stability of it, but for now I need a debugging tool I can trust more than I need the bleeding edge version.

By: Aaron N.

Aaron N. — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:22:54 +0000

@Spi, it’s not about features really so much as stability and reliability. FB1.3 just isn’t as useful, provides poorer error reporting, reports errors from other tabs, throws its own errors… FB1.2 was rock solid and made my job easier. FB1.3 often has me going to other browsers to see if it’s lying to me or not.

By: Spi

Spi — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:11:37 +0000

Hi,

can you develop about the features you find better in Firebug 1.2 (or 1.4 now) than in the 1.3 ? I don’t remember Firebug 1.2 was better.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:15:44 +0000

Yeah, Firebug 1.4 is better than 1.3 and it is pretty stable with Firefox 3.5 although lots of stuff is really really broken badly..

By: Valerio

Valerio — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:58:05 +0000

You can never make me stop using Firefox2 + Firebug1 for my daily debugging!
The evolution of Firebug is a great example of how not to screw up your application. Old versions FTW.
Webkit’s inspector is the worse of them all, even worse than the latest firebugs (which are pretty insanely bad).

By: Thomas Aylott

Thomas Aylott — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:45:45 +0000

The absolute killer feature of Firebug is CSS line-numbers. Add that to WebKit’s Inspector and Firebug is dead to me.