Installation

FireQuery is an extension of Firebug created by BinaryAge to help developers to keep track with jQuery expressions, data and collections as expressed on tool website:

• Query expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector
• attached jQuery data are first class citizens
• elements in jQuery collections are highlighted on hover
• jQuerify: enables you to inject jQuery into any web page

You can install the tool from official Mozilla add-on page (it requires Firebug 1.3+ already existed.) One note: You may have to find an older version (v0.3) to make it work with current official Firebug release (v1.4) as my experience on Windows.

In Action

After installing the add-on and restarting Firefox, just go to the test page to see how FireQuery tracks embedded jQuery data on FireBug’s “HTML” tab. The image below illustrates the data embedded in accordance with the jQuery codes to inject them to the page.

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