I sometimes need to debug JS in other browsers, and it would be really nice if they all had Firebug - failing that, what's the closest they have?
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Fiddler is the one I use: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
There is Charles: http://www.charlesproxy.com/ Also WireShark: http://www.wireshark.org/
Dustin Laine
2010-03-09 18:46:57
Those are very nice tools, but not really in the same class as Firebug.
Shog9
2010-03-09 18:48:15
Firebug Lite doesn't let you debug JS, it's nice for examining HTML and CSS, but JS debugging is not supported in Lite version.
Ilya Volodin
2010-03-09 20:37:51
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How about Firebug Lite? It claims to work in IE, Opera and Safari by simply being a Javascript file.
Michael Williamson
2010-03-09 18:47:59
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Firebug can be used in other browser with it's javascript version : hhttp://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
Anyway, in Safari there is Web Inspector which is brilliant.
Ross
2010-03-09 18:48:31
+3
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IE8 - Developer Tools (F12)
IE6,7,8 - Visual Studio/Microsoft Script Debugger/DynaTrace (for tracing JS, not debugging)
Chrome, Safari - Developer Tools.
Ilya Volodin
2010-03-09 18:48:51
IE8 has this built in; in fact, it's a better one (at least IMO). The Developer Toolbar won't load in IE8 anyway, you'll need to use the built-in one instead of the linked one.
Michael Madsen
2010-03-09 19:21:27
+1
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For Safari and Google Chrome, the Developer Tools.
Just right-click anywhere and select "Inspect Element", or use the Ctrl + Shift + J shortcut:
Daniel Vassallo
2010-03-09 18:50:51
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- Firebug Lite - any up-to-date browser, but limited
- IE - number of options depending of IE version and do you have Visual Studio
- Opera - Dragonfly
- Webkit based browsers have inspector and debugger in menu
IMHO Firebug is the best tool but could be used only on Firefox
Andrey Yatsyk
2010-03-09 19:16:13
+1
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Opera has the excellent dragonfly developer console, which can profile your code (to find bottlenecks and redundent code) as well as step through breakpoints.
kennebec
2010-03-10 00:42:48