Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug

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This is a nice addition, but I honestly could do without new Firebug features for a while. It already has 98% of the features I need on a daily basis, and they've all been getting progressively worse in performance for at least the last 6 months. For example, I fired up an older VM the other day that happened to have FF3 and Firebug 1.2 and was amazed that it was so blazing fast compared to what I'm used to with FF3.5 and Firebug 1.4+

This is an extension to Firebug, not another built in feature. When you have to do some event detective work, you'll probably be glad it's around.

Very nice! It's such a pain to figure out what is going to happen when events occur. This is going to accelerate complex js development substantially.

I like that it "[lists the] event targets that would be used as DOMEvent.currentTarget when event bubbles". Understanding event bubbling is a bit hard when you first do it. This will make it a lot easier.

Sweet, the WebKit inspector has had this in the nightlies for a while.

I like how this displays the source code inline, though. WebKit just displays the event object, which is a bit more awkward.

you may want to look at the javascript deobfuscator addon : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10345

This add-on will show you what JavaScript gets to run on a web page, even if it is obfuscated and generated on the fly. Simply open JavaScript Deobfuscator from the Tools menu and watch the scripts being compiled/executed.

Do event delegation handler's like jquery's 'live' show up as handlers on the body element?

Very handy. I've wanted this for ages.

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