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I am looking for a tool/add-on like Firebug on Firefox ( that is immensely useful for debugging web applications) which works for Internet Explorer. Any suggestions ?

-thanks

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  • https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/use-firebug-in-any-browser/ Use Firebug in Any Browser – zloctb Mar 14 '15 at 14:04

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Microsoft provides the IE Developer Toolbar which provides similar functionality to Firebug.

You can also use Firebug Lite in IE6+.

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    Later versions of IE actually have this built in. Try pressing F12. – i_am_jorf Dec 09 '10 at 18:59
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    I think the IE Developer Toolbar is a joke. I isn't at all comparable with Firebug or the WebKit/Chrome Inspector. And I never got Firebug Lite to work. :/ – panzi Jan 28 '12 at 15:19
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    If you can't get it to work try using the [debug channel](http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite#Debug). It forces firebug to show regardless of the environment. This solved it for me in IE9 because the developer toolbar is seen as a version of firebug – georgephillips Jun 14 '12 at 03:09
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Also wanted to mention, for network analysis, similar to Firebug's Net tab, I don't think IE dev tools offers as good an alternative. You can then use Fiddler/Fiddler 2 and it's related plugins.

And another option for that that I like is ieHttpHeaders. It won't give you HTTP response body/data but it gives you the HTTP request headers + HTTP POST parameters (excluding file uploads, binary data, and multi-part form POSTs), and HTTP response headers. Good tool to have as companion to your other IE tools.

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Go to Settings and select F12 Developer Tools in IE. I use IE10 and it works.

You can also press F12.

The usage is similar to Firebug. I like this interface more, it shows the color of all color-hex values for easy reference.

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  • This Works for Internet Explorer 9 and up. Nowadays it is the best solution. You don't need to install anything.. – neves Jul 02 '15 at 15:30
  • Yeah but how do you debug Javascript in IE8? I've set breakpoints, but the entire jscript function runs anyway! useless – Fandango68 Jul 07 '16 at 04:39
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Check this Firebug Lite For IE. Also there is DebugBar, IE developer toolbar are few other names.

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