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John Resig, a member of Mozilla's Firebug development team, announced yesterday that the final version of Firebug 1.2 had been released. Firebug is a debugger for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that sits within the Firefox Web browser. It has become an essential tool for Web developers, particularly those who use the modern technique known as Ajax ( asynchronous JavaScript and XML ).

Many developers know about Firebug - - the highly regardedﾠ HTML/CSS/Javascript investigation and debugging extension for Firefox. But our sister blog WebWorkerDaily notes that it hasnﾒt been any help for chasing problems in other browsers, which often have inferior facilities for figuring out the sources of problems - until now. The release of Firebug Lite offers new hope to those trying to chase rendering and script issues in IE, Safari, and even Opera, WWD reports. Check out the story, and for many more useful Firefox extensions, see our recent superguide.