# Firebug Lite

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firebug-lite/286634>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firebug-lite/286634 "2009-04-17T23:09:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![shane\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@shane\_c](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shane_c)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firebug-lite/286634/1 "2009-04-17T23:09:28Z")

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Most of you probably know about this already, but I didn’t until today, so I thought I’d share 🍺

[Firebug Lite is just like the Firebug addon for Firefox, except it’s a piece of javascript. You can just open [URL=“javascript:var%20firebug=document.createElement(‘script’);firebug.setAttribute(‘src’,‘http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js’);document.body.appendChild(firebug);(function(){if(window.firebug.version){firebug.init();}else{setTimeout(arguments.callee);}})();void(firebug);”]this link](http://getfirebug.com/lite.html) from any site to get Firebug going, regardless of the browser you’re using.

It’s incredibly helpful for debugging IE problems, because IE Developer Toolbar tends to suck.