Comments on: Firebug Reaches its First Milestone

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?????Firefox3????? at ????|???????????? — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:17:46 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:44:29 +0000

I did experience a slight slowdown with Firebug that I noticed, which is why I through it in a separate profile. Alternatively you could just disable the extension in the Add-ons page.

By: bunnyhero

bunnyhero — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:31:10 +0000

firebug is incredibly useful, but i don’t like having it installed all the time because on my laptop it seems to slow down the operation of opening tabs or opening new windows, even when it’s disabled. i wish this wasn’t the case. i wonder if anyone else experiences this slowdown?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:58:36 +0000

CoryC wrote:

Firebug is a fantastic tool for developers but I have often wondered if it’s being used to hack web site.
Given that you can manipulate the HTML DOM, I figure it would be a clever tool to use. It’s my guess that many web sites don’t validate the client input on both the client and server.

You make a very valid point because when the @Live.com email address tricks were found they were done by simply modifying forms on a website. It was then obvious that Microsoft wasn’t checking to make sure certain cases weren’t taking place. A tool like Firebug could help contribute to the hacking, but it can also be done with other tools.

natmaster wrote:

BTW: The ‘M’ is not capitalized in Natmaster. Heck, most of the time I don’t even capitalize the ‘n.’

Oops…sorry. We de-capitalized the ‘M’

By: Motang

Motang — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:22:54 +0000

A must have extension for web programmers. It works well and is very useful.

By: natmaster

natmaster — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:01:45 +0000

CoryC wrote:

Firebug is a fantastic tool for developers but I have often wondered if it’s being used to hack web site.
Given that you can manipulate the HTML DOM, I figure it would be a clever tool to use. It’s my guess that many web sites don’t validate the client input on both the client and server.

You don’t need Firebug to spoof websites like that…how insecure!

BTW: The ‘M’ is not capitalized in Natmaster. Heck, most of the time I don’t even capitalize the ‘n.’

By: CoryC

CoryC — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:04:45 +0000

Firebug is a fantastic tool for developers but I have often wondered if it’s being used to hack web site.

Given that you can manipulate the HTML DOM, I figure it would be a clever tool to use. It’s my guess that many web sites don’t validate the client input on both the client and server.