On Aug 20, 2:07 am, ColinFine <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 6:56 am, kwcricer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have Firefox 3.5 and firebug 1.4.2
>
> > I'm having problems editing my website through firebug...this may be
> > because I'm new at this and don't know what the hell I'm doing,
> > however when I make changes to the site using the "edit" on firebug
> > the site reflects the changes only until the site is refreshed...what
> > do I need to do to save the changes I make?
>
> You can't. Firebug is a debugger, not an editor. All it can see is
> what Firefox has received or generated - it knows nothing of your
> website, or where or how it is structured.
Editing in Firebug is kinda like taking out the pickles from and
adding mustard to a restaurant sandwich: you can enjoy the result, but
the next customer a the restaurant will still get pickles and no
mustard.
>
> It would be possible in principle for Firebug to save local copies of
> your changed html, css, etc, and I have seen several requests for this
> functionality, though as far as I know it does not exist at present;
> but if you want to make the changes live on your site you'll have to
> apply them manually.
Kevin Decker's Firediff lists the changes, some day we hope to connect
this to a server so that the chef omits the pickles next time.
jjb
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