The only thing that was stopping me from making a full migration to Chrome was the excellent Firefox web developer’s add-on Firebug. Any decent web designer/developer will tell how powerful and time saver Firebug is. Webkit powered browser’s like Safari and Chrome also comes with a built-in web developer’s tool called Web Inspector, which is decent but lacks a lot of great features available with Firebug.

With the recent Web Inspector update, available on webkit nightlies, they just might have one-upped firebug with some great new features. Since both Chrome and Safari runs on webkit, its only a matter of time before this becomes officially available to your webkit powered browser, in the meantime you can use the nightlies to get a taste of the new Web Inspector.

Some of the new features includes:

- Editing Element and Style Properties.
- Custom CSS Rules and Selector
- CSS Color Representations
- DOM Storage
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- View Cookies information
- Event Listeners
- Syntax Highlighting
- Debugging Ajax

Get a complete list of new features here.

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