On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:44 PM, immanence <[email protected]> wrote: > This comment was posted two and a half years ago, and as far as I know, no > tool integrates the ease of Firebug in a standalone app. My workflow is > this: Firebug, Coda 2, Opera (for changes to code and commits to see the > change). I'm working mainly with Wordpress sites, so it's not straight HTML. > I wish there were a tool that had the power of Firebug. I just discovered > Chocolat, for HTML editing. I like the simplicity, but I can't "inspect" > elements, so it seems I'm bound to swapping between Firefox and Coda -- > using Firebug to find out what code I want to change, and changing it in > Coda. Seems a horrible waste of time.
Firefox _can't_ be a stand-alone tool. It's an extension for Firefox, written in XUL, CSS, and JavaScript, and executed by the Gecko rendering engine. You *could* make Firebug something of a stand-alone tool by creating a new Firefox profile specifically intended to run it. Run Firefox as "firefox -p" to start in Profile Manager mode, create a new profile, give it a name like "firebug", optionally specify where you want the profile to live, then run Firefox with the new profile as "firefox -p firebug" and install Firebug in it. You can run that profile *and* an existing Firefox profile side-by-side: what is required is that they use separate profiles. "firefox -p firebug -no-remote" will open a second instance of Firefox running the Firebug profile. I'm not sure why you use Firefox and Firebug for debugging: and Opera to see changes. Firefox *is* a tabbed browser. (You may want to use Opera to verify that what looks good in FF looks good there too.) And while there are a slew of HTML editors out there, there are also editors written in JavaScript intended to be embedded in a page and run within the browser. It might just be possible to use *one* tool instead of three. Are you going through more trouble than you really have to? ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
