Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast

Posted Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:56:00 GMT to , , , , , , , , by
Jesse Newland
Just a couple days ago Firebug 1.0 Beta was released, with loads and loads of new features. Roger Johansson calls it the web developer tool of the year:

With the recent release of Firebug 1.0 (beta – the old kind of beta, not a Web 2.0 eternal beta), this extension went from “great” to absolutely marvelous. A must have that no Web developer should do without. I’m serious – you need Firebug.

I absolutely agree. In the short time since it’s been released, I’ve used it to track down an obscure bug with Rails AJAX auto-completion helpers, debug the CSS on this blog, and inspect the AJAX behavior of Campfire to add new features to Marshmallow, the unofficial ruby Campfire API (look for a gem release soon!).

So, this morning, I did a short screencast demoing some of my favorite features of Firebug – some new in 1.0 Beta, and some there since the beginning. Here it is:

This is my first screencast, so go easy on me. :) Hope you enjoy!

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  1. http://adam.kahtava.com/ had this to say Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:27:41 GMT

    Great screencast, Firebug is amazing.

    Thanks,

    -Adam

  2. sphereboy.com had this to say Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:04:49 GMT

    awesome! thank you!

  3. Reinier Zwitserloot had this to say Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:10:15 GMT

    Good screencast for getting people to say ‘Wow! I want that!’.

    By the way, what did you use to make this screencast? I like it.

  4. Anthony Ettinger had this to say Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:30:45 GMT

    Nice way to reverse AJAX, thanks!

  5. macx had this to say Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:16:46 GMT

    What Screencast-Software do you use?

  6. Patrick Fitzgerald had this to say Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:05:33 GMT

    Thanks – good introductory screencast!

  7. chas had this to say Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:34:25 GMT

    do another.

  8. schwed had this to say Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:39:34 GMT

    I am speechless – one of the best firefox plugins I have ever come along!!!

    That calls for a Paypal-Donation above $10…

    nice screencast btw, but it merely touches the surface of this powerful tool.

  9. Andrey Skvortsov had this to say Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:15:01 GMT

    Please,upload on youtube or something-I don’t like quicktime.

    Thanks.

  10. Richard Banks had this to say Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:13:05 GMT

    Thanks for this. It’s great for showing people who are still dubious about the benefits of Firebug.

  11. Mikey had this to say Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:15:29 GMT

    Nice screencast, thanks man!

    Firebug is really a good tool

  12. Tony had this to say Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:21:52 GMT

    Thanks for doing this – I had no idea that Firebug had come along so much. It’s definitely a ‘must-have’ system…

  13. John McKnight had this to say Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:44:06 GMT

    Great screencast. I have been using Firebug for a little while but I was drooling after I saw the beta. Very cool.

    What did you use to make the screencast?

  14. Claude Gelinas had this to say Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:53:04 GMT

    I can’t wait for the final version to roll out!

    Many thanks for bringing this to my attention.

  15. Me had this to say Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:55:32 GMT

    Great extension. BTW it’s time to put an image code challenge in this blog…

  16. Jimbo had this to say Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:06:26 GMT

    kickass Screencast

  17. samo had this to say Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:29:03 GMT

    i love to know the screen cast software used here.. it’s just fine for me!!!

  18. James Zhang had this to say Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:26:09 GMT

    I just tried Ctrl+F12, it doesn’t do anything. Maybe some bugs?

  19. paul had this to say Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:33:27 GMT

    Congratulations to your great tutorial! I too would love to know what screencast software you have used. I like the way you are highlighting the pointer. I only know Camtasia which is a great software too, but they do not have this effect. So just curious what you have used. Mind to share the secret? :)

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