I love Firebug. It saves me hours of time while troubleshooting a solution by keeping nearly all of the important information in one, easy-to-reach place. But sometimes, the differences between IE and Firefox requires me to troubleshoot in IE, where the popular Firefox addon does nothing.

Firebug lite to the rescue.

How to get some Firebug functionality in IE (fast way):

1. Navigate to the page in trouble.
2. Enter Edit Mode: click Site Actions > Edit Page.
3. Add a Content Editor Web Part to the page: Add a Web Part > Content Editor Web Part > Add.
4. Hide: Modify Shared Web Part > Layout > Hidden
5. Audience Target: if you have MOSS, use the Audience Targeting feature under Advanced so that the Firebug panel will only load for you/admins. For WSS, use the second snippet and put your user id in the blank provided.
6. Click Source Editor.
7. Paste the following bit of code:

MOSS (using Audience Targeting)

<script type="text/javascript">
//?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2
if(browseris.ie==true){
	var fblPath="http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/";
	document.write("<script src='",fblPath,"firebug-lite-compressed.js' type='text/javascript'><\/script>");
}
</script>

WSS

<script type="text/javascript">
//?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2
if(browseris.ie==true && _spUserId==1073741823){ //change the id as needed, this value should be the System Administrator account in most implementations
	var fblPath="http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/";
	document.write("<script src='",fblPath,"firebug-lite-compressed.js' type='text/javascript'><\/script>");
}
</script>

To get your userid, open the Firebug console and type _spUserId, it will return the id value. You can also use this code in a CEWP:

<script type="text/javascript">
alert(_spUserId);
</script>

 

Paul Grenier