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AJAX debugging : Firebug equivalent

 
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To debug the loads of client side javascrip/AJAX, i find the firebug extension in Firefox browser completely invalueable.

I am not sure if IE have any equivalent extension? Any recommendations? Also, any tips/recommendations for making the life easier in general, for debugging javascript in-browser would be much appreciated.
 
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If you look on Firebug's site there is Firebug lite

Also if you dare, you can download Viusal Web Developer and you can use IE's debugger feature.

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I use the MS Script Editor (cheapest route is to buy FrontPage, unless the free Visual Studio Express supports it). The free MS Script Debugger is OK as a basic debugger too. The IE Web Developer Toolbar (also free) provides a decent DOM inspector, and a menu item for clearing the cache on a per-domain basis (very valuable given IE's aggressive caching policy). Combined, these give you about 80-90% of the utility that you get from Firebug.

Fiddler (www.fiddlertool.com) is a great HTTP debugger, very useful for Ajax work, and very flexible.

HTH

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Thanks for the suggestions Eric/David.

I did not realize about the lite version of firebug, although had used Visual web developer before and think it is decent.

Fiddler certainly looks interesting. I have been using Ethereal for this kinda stuff, but fiddler is much more.
 
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I should also add if you are using Opera: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-developer-tools/

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