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Firebug Feature Request

I really like Firebug, I highly recommend it (if you do web dev and haven’t used it then it is time to catch up). While trying to debug a particular problem with an image not loading correctly, I thought of a new feature that would be really handy to have.

The HTML inspector is really great at taking you directly to the item on the page you’re interested in, but sometimes that isn’t enough. I’d like to have an option to see the network request for that resource (an image in this case) on the ‘Net’ panel. I suppose it wouldn’t need to be part of the inspector, if I could right click on an img tag and have a menu option to go directly to the network request for that image that would be good enough.

Having the network requests broken out by type is a good start, but when you’ve got dozens of images loading on a single page scanning the list by file name isn’t very fun.

If this is something that is already available in Firebug and I’ve missed it please enlighten me in the comments below.

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