Firebug 1.8: console.timeStamp()
by Honza- Published:June 16th, 2011
- Comments:32 Comments
- Category:Firebug, HAR, NetExport, Planet Mozilla
Firebug 1.8b3 introduces a new API that can be used to create time-stamps during Javascript execution and compare them together with HTTP traffic timing on the timeline in the Net panel: console.timeStamp();
This feature is useful in cases where the developer needs to know when particular piece of Javascript code is executed relatively to the HTTP request made by web page. Especially in cases when Javascript is loaded through dynamically appended <script> tags or through XHR and evaluated using eval().
See the following screenshot that shows a time-stamp generated during a page load.
The time stamp is also displayed in the Console panel so, you can compare with other logs.
The rest of this post demonstrates this feature on couple of live examples in detail. So, if you are interested what you can do with Firebug 1.8, read further!
