Firebug (software)

Firebug is a free and open source web browser extension for Mozilla Firefox

Description

Firebug facilitates the live debugging, editing, and monitoring of any website's HTML, CSS, Document Object Model, XHR, and JavaScript.

Firebug is licensed under the BSD licenses and was initially written in January 2006 by Joe Hewitt, one of the original Firefox creators.

The Firebug Working Group oversees the open source development and extension of Firebug. It has two major implementations: an extension for Mozilla Firefox and a bookmarklet implementation called Firebug Lite[7] which can be used with Google Chrome.

Web security testing

Firebug is a useful tool for web security testing.

Web page performance analysis

Firebug is useful for web page performance analysis.

See also

• Inspect Element
• Plug-in (computing)
• View Source

External links

• Firebug (software) @ Wikipedia