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PHP apache_request_headers() diagrees with reality (as confirmed by Firebug): why?

I have written a web app in PHP which makes use of Ajax requests (made using YUI.util.Connect.asyncRequest). Most of the time, this works fine. The request is sent with an X-Requested-With value of XMLHttpRequest. My PHP controller code uses apache_request_headers() to check whether an incoming request is Ajax or not and all works wel...

Increase the font size in Firebug?

Is there a way to increase the font-size in the Firefox extension Firebug? ...

Understanding Firebug Profiler Output

I've been trying to use Firebug's profiler to better understand the source of some JavaScript performance issues we are seeing, but I'm a little confused by the output. When I profile some code the profiler reports Profile (464.323ms, 26,412 calls). I suspect that the 464.323ms is the sum of the execution time for those 26,412 calls. H...

Is there a way to customize Firebug's keyboard shortcuts?

Is there a way to customize Firebug's keyboard shortcuts? I love being able to step through javascript code using the Firebug console, but it looks like I'm limited to either using the default keyboard shortcuts for stepping over/into/out of code or using the mouse to click the appropriate button. Am I missing something? Is there ...

Finding why a text in web page is larger than supposed to (firebug question)

I have some text displaying in a larger font than what they are supposed to. I used Firebug and it shows that the text is 12px as defined in the element's css. However Web Developer toolkit and CSSViewer both report that the text is 16px which is what is currently displaying. With all these tools I am unable to quickly determine the sou...

Firefox sending request twice

I'm trying to process a credit card transaction in .net and it works perfectly in Safari, Opera, and IE. When I try the same transaction in Firefox it sends two requests and I end up with a double charged card. From a quick search on Google it seems that this is an issue with Firebug but I am unable to find a way to stop this double post...

Screen scraping pages that use CSS for layout and formatting...how to scrape the CSS applicable to the html?

I am working on an app for doing screen scraping of small portions of external web pages (not an entire page, just a small subset of it). So I have the code working perfectly for scraping the html, but my problem is that I want to scrape not just the raw html, but also the CSS styles used to format the section of the page I am extractin...

Firebug-like debugger for Google Chrome

Is there anything like Firebug that you can use within Google Chrome? Essential features I would like: Inspect HTML source (select elements, delete them, etc.) check CSS values (the built-in solution is weird, somehow) ...

debugging javascript with firebug

Hi, I cannot seem to debug my javascript code with Firebug. The play button is greyed out. I use FireFox 3.0.4 and Firebug 1.2.1 Are there any known issues? This is the script i want to debug: (breakpoints set on img onclick and function say), the code executes well. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...

"Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy"

Hi, I am doing JavaScript Scaffold-like thing. And, code below is showing table. It works normal for all of them, and not for only one table I am getting - in the centring of processing on the third row - I get exception "Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy". function table_one_view(table) { $.getJ...

Is Firebug always correct at how it lists downloads with the Net tab?

Is it possible Firebug may be incorrectly adding downloads to the Net tab when things may be loaded from the cache? I have some code in a Javascript gallery which is meant to lazily download an image when the thumbnail is clicked and then display it once downloaded. It is meant to determine if it's been downloaded already first (via an ...

What do you use to debug JavaScript besides Firebug?

What are your favorite JavaScript debugging tools besides Firebug? Thanks, Eric Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/103155/javascript-debugger ...

Javascript that detects Firebug?

What's a surefire way of detecting whether a user has Firebug enabled? ...

Firebug css file

Hi there? I have a question about firebug concerning the .CSS pages... On the right 'Style' you've got the css... Furter on to the right you have the name of the css.file... Normally this is refering to the correct css file... But sometimes i get something like 'template...r=default (line 458)', so i'm not able to find the file inmediat...

any idea why js errors aren't showing up in my firebug console?

I'm having to open the firefox error console, which is kind of annoying. ...

How to decipher Firebug results in efforts to make site faster

I am trying to fix my website and found this great tool called Firebug. I was trying to pinpoint why my website is really slow at loading (wordpress based website). I was hoping to see if anybody could give me some hints. The results that I get under Net->All is. GET www.XXXXX.com http://www.XXXXX.com/ 302 Moved Temporarily ...

How can I consume Firebug net panel data programmatically?

My agile team will be adding new features to a existing realty website. As we add the features we want to have a better handle on the site's overall performance as well as the performance of particular pages. I would like to automate the gathering of performance metrics on a request/response basis for each page (e.g. what sub requests...

Using firebug, where are the js errors shown?

Hi, using firebug, where are the js errors shown when the page renders? (if you have any good js debugging links w/firebug send them my way please!) ...

When using firebug, do I have to remove the console outputs when deploying?

Hi, I am using firebug for debugging etc. When I deploy, it seems as though I have to remove all the console.log statements from my javascript code? When viewing on a browser that doesn't have firebug I am getting errors relating to console... ...

Boolean Javascript expression returns true in Firebug Watch window but false in the code?

I have a web page with an IFrame named "objFrame". In a Javascript file, the following statement is executed: var useWindow = (typeof(window.objFrame) != "undefined" && typeof(window.objFrame.contentWindow) != "undefined"); When running the code (normally or stepping through it with the debugger), the expression (typeof(window.objFra...