Mike Levin

Looking for Firebug on Google Chrome? Me too. With the Google Chrome browser coming out for OS X yesterday, and Extensions just being added for the PC and Linux versions (with OS X soon to follow), the only must-have Firefox plug-in dependency that I have is Firebug… that is, until I started looking at the Developer Tools under Chrome. The killer feature within Firebug for me is inspection of HTTP traffic generated by the XMLHttpRequest DOM API (XHR) in web browsers. So, I went hunting for it, and lo and behold, it was there! I tested it using Etherpad (hence, my discovery in my prior post that it was just bought by Google), which you can rely on to create a steady stream of invisible calls to the server. They’re carrying their keystroke data on the request URL, but if there was an Ajax response payload (XML, usually), it would show where this screenshot is showing “ok”. Hooray! Strike one more annoying plug-in dependency from the list, and now I can officially switch over to Chrome as my main browser. I have XMarks and a built-in Firebug equivalent. There are s few other extensions that would be nice, like SEOBook’s SEO for Firefox. Aaron Wall, are you listening? Maybe I’ll check out Chrome SEO, which has 4 stars.

Looking for Firebug on Google Chrome? Me too. With the Google Chrome browser coming out for OS X yesterday, and Extensions just being added for the PC and Linux versions (with OS X soon to follow), the only must-have Firefox plug-in dependency that I have is Firebug… that is, until I started looking at the Developer Tools under Chrome. The killer feature within Firebug for me is inspection of HTTP traffic generated by the XMLHttpRequest DOM API (XHR) in web browsers. So, I went hunting for it, and lo and behold, it was there!

I tested it using Etherpad (hence, my discovery in my prior post that it was just bought by Google), which you can rely on to create a steady stream of invisible calls to the server. They’re carrying their keystroke data on the request URL, but if there was an Ajax response payload (XML, usually), it would show where this screenshot is showing “ok”.

Hooray! Strike one more annoying plug-in dependency from the list, and now I can officially switch over to Chrome as my main browser. I have XMarks and a built-in Firebug equivalent. There are s few other extensions that would be nice, like SEOBook’s SEO for Firefox. Aaron Wall, are you listening? Maybe I’ll check out Chrome SEO, which has 4 stars.