If you do any amount of web developing with CSS and JavaScript, it’s probably a safe bet that you use the Firefox and Firebug combo to test ideas, tweak appearance and behavior of pages, and debug problems when they crop up. You might also use a widescreen monitor to provide more screen real estate to flip between your code and the rendered output. In an arrangement like this, the open Firebug panel takes up precious vertical space, while spare pixels on the side go unused.
After a few trivial changes to Firebug, I’ve modified it to open on the right side of the browser as a sidebar. With the stock plugin, you can achieve a similar layout by detaching Firebug from the current tab and moving its window in the same position, but this has a generally unwelcome side effect: the separate window doesn’t update when you switch tabs. With Widerbug, you can open the Firebug sidebar, and it will keep up with you as you switch tabs and maintain its width.
Release History
- Widerbug is Retired
January 6, 2011
Firebug 1.9.0 added widescreen support, making Widerbug obsolete - Widerbug 1.5.0
Released on January 25, 2010
Merged Firebug 1.5.0 changes, for Firefox 3.6.* - Widerbug 1.4.0
Released on July 17, 2009
Merged Firebug 1.4.0 changes, for Firefox 3.5.* - Widerbug 1.3.3
Released on May 25, 2009
Merged Firebug 1.3.3 changes, for Firefox 3.0.* - Widerbug 1.3.0
Released on Jan. 8, 2009
Merged Firebug 1.3.0 changes, for Firefox 3.0.* - Widerbug 1.2.1
Released on Sept. 13, 2008
Merged Firebug 1.2.1 changes, for Firefox 3.0.* - Widerbug 1.0.5
Released on Jan. 19, 2008
Initial release, for Firefox 2.*
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Install Widerbug
(You may have to temporarily allow command-tab.com to install Firefox extensions. Also, if you’re currently using Firebug, please uninstall Firebug first, restart Firefox, and then install Widerbug, just to be safe.)
I agree, this should be an option in the main FireBug project.
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Since I did not found another way (or a hint using Google) to make plugins written for FIREbug work an instruction:
– Close FireFox.
– Rename the extensions folder from ‘widerbug@command-tab.com’ to ‘firebug@software.joehewitt.com’.
– Inside that extensions folder open ‘install.rdf’ and change the node (line 7 for me) to ‘firebug@software.joehewitt.com’.
– Start FireFox, your installed FIREbug plugins will now work with WIDERbug
This should work too with changing the plugins requierment in its install.rdf.
Maybe someone can drop a hint how to activate plugins in a better way or is it up to the plugins author?
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[…] or WiderBug (thanks Andre!) – because its […]
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nice!!
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