New Version of JavaScript Debugger Firebug Announced, Kind of

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Monday, May 22, 2006; 05:52 AM

A cryptic "Firebug 0.4 coming soon" notice has appeared on the project's website at http://www.joehewitt.com/ .  Software engineer and Forefox programmer Joe Hewitt has announced availability of version 0.4 back in April, and testing of the extension has been going on since then.

Firebug is a debugging extension for the Firefox browser, which contains several features.  It allows developers to escape from the tedious "alert debugging."  Firebug logs messages from JavaScript in a web page directly to the FireBug console, thus making JavaScript errors easy to find and correct.

In addition, Firefox allows for easy inspection of styles, elements and events.  Firebug's inspectors allow the developer to explore the DOM using the familiar hyperlink model of the web, and make it possible to edit everything in place.

Other tools include a JavaScript command line and an Ajax request traffic logging. 

Firebug is forming up to be a worthy competitor of the Venkman debugger ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ ), which so far was the premium Firefox extension for JavaScript coders.

 Debugging with Firebug.