Firebug Lite : Firebug for all browsers (IE, Opera, Safari)
I am sure very few people are on the earth who are doing web development and do not know about Firebug. It is an excellent add-on of Mozilla Firefox which is a developer tool and helps in real way in debugging java script, HTML and CSS issues. As it runs as an add-on of Mozilla firefox, it is a real problem to debug your page for other browsers like IE, Safari and Opera.
Very less developer tools are available for IE and because of its penetration you can not avoid it. There are few tools like IE developer toolbar which helps little but not at all comparable with Firebug. Few advanced developer tools are also available but comes with the cost.
Firebug lite solves the generically but not fully. It is a lighter version of Firebug but can be run with different browsers like IE, Opera, Safari and of course with Mozilla Firefox, but you do not need it on FF 
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Lighter version include 6 tabs which can help you debug your problem:
1. Console : Using console command in your java script you can get messages for debugging. See console command at http://getfirebug.com/console.html
2. HTML : Should show you HTML structure of the page in code.
3. CSS : style sheets included in Page.
4. Script : java scripts included in Page
5. DOM : Document Object Model of HTML page
6. XHR : display XML HTTP requests using commands.
Other than this you have ‘Inspect’ button on left top using which can be used for inspecting any element on the page.
I experienced it and seems little slow (because it becomes part of the page and not an add-on) and not completely functional still I am very excited about its concept and similar look and feel.
It can be easily added to your page by:
1. Adding the javascript in the page
2. Adding a bookmark for it and use it with any web page you want.
See more details at http://getfirebug.com/lite.html
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