Comments on: Internet Explorer Developer Tools vs. Firefox Firebug vs. Safari Web Inspector vs. Opera Dragonfly

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:09:25 +0000

Thanks for article. I prefer to use chrome extention it is really good one but microsoft is always create soft just for another microsoft soft like ie.

By: cucu

cucu — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:36:02 +0000

Safari is simply a crap , its Developer tools are not as versatile as that of Firefox. Jus try to edit a css style , you will know how annoying its. On windows , it eats all the memory and if you are running Firefox , Chrome and Safari , it will be dead and in a minute and crash all other browsers
All together its a useless thing to install and use

By: Andrew Deibel

Andrew Deibel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:22:40 +0000

You don’t like the “gray” Apple style theme? You’ve got bad taste, I mean just look at your ugly website.

By: Opera 10 : The Missing Pieces

Opera 10 : The Missing Pieces — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:55:04 +0000

[...] in alpha for over two years and still doesn’t have half the features of FireBug. Check out this FavBrowser article to get an idea about DragonFly’s sorry [...]

By: nihcap

nihcap — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:49:49 +0000

“Fifth” Competitor from Google is actually “Safari Web Inspector”, which also is implemented in Google Chrome but is called “Developer Tools”. If you take a look at it you’ll realize that’s the same thing.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:40:21 +0000

1 – firebug for javascript (I like the js dom inspector)… I also like the JS error feedback
2 – Safari for CSS — I like the computed styles.. I used to like how the UI darkened everything except the DOM node selected
3 – IE the js debugger and CSS debugger kind of really sucks
4 – never used the others

When is IE going to support box shadow, text shadow and radius!!!! =O|

By: FataL

FataL — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:18:37 +0000

Exactly what Nobody said: Opera Dragonfly in development for more than two years already, but it still buggy, slow, and lack many essential features.
Seems like they are developing it for their own needs and don’t look at competitors.
My rating at this moment would be:
1 – Firefox Firefug
2 – IE Developer Tools
3 – Safari Web Inspector
4 – Opera Dragonfly
Also I’m pretty shure there will be fifth competitor soon from Google.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:20:48 +0000

Yeah, I agree with that. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with JavaScript debugging, etc.

By: nobody

nobody — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:52:08 +0000

nice review. but this touches only the basics of the basics.

stuff like inspecting http headers, inspecting cookies, sessions, debuging (with breakpoints and stacks) javascript..

check that, and stop wondering why nobody uses opera to develop. dragonfly is in alpha for 2 years now and it still cant do what firebug did 4 years ago. same goes for safari inspector, it is very nice, does few things briliantly, but it lacks what people using firebug call essentials.

anyone blaming conspiracy, money or anything else stupid for firefox strong marketshare should look at firebug, and do their own copy. this tool alone won firefox the war for marketshare.

if you develop a site with firebug, it will ALWAYS work ok in firefox..