Firebug Fix

If you have upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.12 you might have noticed that the Firebug extension no longer will inspect anchor tags or the elements inside anchor tags. This is a very annoying issue and not being able to inspect a link that is misbehaving can slow down development. Luckily this issue can be easily fixed. You have two options:

1. Downgrade back to Firefox 2.0.0.11. To do that replace the “os” value with either win for Windows or osx for Mac OS.
   Mac OS X
   Windows
2. Install Firebug 1.1 Beta

I have tried Firebug 1.1 and it definitely fixes the not inspecting link elements issue.

There's also a couple of new features I like. For example:

eval() debugging,
Javascript code sent to eval() shows up in Script as a new source file. Code can be debugged as other source.

browser-generated event handler debugging,
Firefox generates event handler code that is normally invisible to programmers. 1.1 shows these handlers in the Script panel and they can be breakpointed etc.
Option: "Decompile Script for Source": disable to event handler debugging to avoid FF2 crash
** Internal: as eval() debugging.

The ability to use external editors now as well looks interesting. See the release notes for the complete list of changes and fixes.

Firebug is one of the best extensions for Firefox and no one that works on web sites should be without it.