It always drives me nuts when I get a Javascript error in Internet Explorer that I can’t reproduce in Firefox because I’m used to debugging Javascript in Firefox with Firebug. I finally had to buckle down and figure out how to debug Javascript in IE and fortunately the IE Blog has a nice post on how to do this. The solution I used:
1. Install the free Microsoft Script Debugger
2. In Internet Explorer:
Tools->Internet Options…->Advanced->Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer) Tools->Internet Options…->Advanced->Disable Script Debugging (Other)
3. Hit a page with a Javascript error and it asks you Do you wish to Debug? and click Yes
It’ll bring up the debugger with a nice yellow line on the Javascript causing the error.
You may also want to check out the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, if you haven’t already.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en
Life is indeed so much easier with Firefox 🙂
In many cases it just doesn’t work.