Firebug

By | 22 Dec 2008

Firebug is a useful Firefox extension to debug JavaScript and more. To not raise error messages on browsers without Firebug, there’s a small script called firebugx.js, which creates empty
functions. Sascha Hameister has optimized this script a little bit and it now looks like this:

// FirebugX for browsers without Firebug
if (!window.console || !console.firebug) {
    var names = ["log", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "assert", "dir", "dirxml", "trace",
                 "group", "groupCollapsed", "groupEnd", "time", "timeEnd", "profile", "profileEnd", "count"];

    var emptyFunction = function() {};

    window.console = {};
    for (var i = 0, count = names.length; i < count; ++i) {
        window.console[names[i]] = emptyFunction;
    }
}Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

You might also want to use Firebug Lite.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)